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Sun Screen Should Be Farm Safety Equipment Too (6/25/02) More than 600,000 new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed this year specialist says and will become the most common form of cancer in humans. According to a North Dakota State University agriculture safety specialist, more than 80 percent of this over-exposure to the sun occurs before the age of 18. MORE Tax Prepares Enjoying the Boon of Earned Income Tax Credit (6/25/02) 68 percent of tax filers who receive Earned Income Credit Tax Credit (EITC) spend about 10 percent of their return when hiring someone or a tax service to prepare their taxes. MORE
Rainfall Extremes Mean Flooding and Drought (6/20/02) Some areas of North Dakota need rain while others need sunshine. MORE AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 AUDIO 3 Cutting The Grass Safely Is Not as Simple as It Looks (6/20/02) The operators of mowers are often youngsters or others who are new to the job. According to safety specialist George Maher, there is an increased risk of injury on the job when the operator is inexperienced and unaware of the hazards of the work being done. MORE Grazing Management Can Reduce Grasshopper Problems (6/20/02) Periodic grasshopper outbreaks in the Northern Plains tend to be associated with drought conditions and heavy grazing on native rangeland and domesticated grasslands, notes range scientist Lee Manske. Little can be done to alter precipitation levels, but grazing management practices that increase the amount of vegetation cover can help to control harmful grasshopper species. MORE N.D. Used Farm Machinery and Repair Parts Sales Tax Repeal Effective July 1 (6/20/02) As of July 1, there will be no North Dakota sales tax on the purchase of used farm machinery and farm repair parts, reminds Ron Haugen, farm economist for the North Dakota State University Extension Service. MORE
Wheat and Minor Oilseeds See Most Significant Changes in Marketing Loan Rates (6/14/02) County level commodity loan rates for the 2002 crop wheat are differentiated by classes of wheat. For North Dakota that means separate loan rates for hard red spring, hard amber durum and hard red winter wheat. Previously there has been a single loan rate that applied to all classes, says farm management specialist Dwight Aakre. MORE Identity Theft, Don’t Let It Happen To You (6/14/02) Can you completely prevent identity theft from occurring? MORE Be Aware of Internet Fraud (6/14/02) Internet fraud is a danger to Internet users. MORE BeefTalk: Allow Calves to Grow Quickly, But Use a Pinch of Economics (6/20/02) Beef specialist Kris Ringwall offers the bottom line on creep feeding: don’t be afraid to allow your calves to grow, use a pinch of good economics and remember time is money. MORE Prairie Fare: June is National Dairy Month (6/20/02) Food and nutrition specialist Julie Garden-Robinson uses National Dairy Month to sing the praises of milk and dairy products and to offer a recipe for Cheesy Tortilla Mini-pizzas. MORE Plains Folk: The Stegner Homestead (6/20/02) Tom Isern visits the Canadian homestead site where American author Wallace Stegner lived as a child. MORE Hortiscope (6/20/02) Ron Smith answers readers' questions about the world of plants and gardening. MORE |
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Hoop-type Hog Buildings May be Better for North Dakota Producers
(6/20/02)
Hoop-style buildings can reduce the investment required for producers to
begin producing hogs in North Dakota, a study at North Dakota State
University’s Dickinson Research Extension Center shows. The study compared
the hoop-type buildings with conventional facilities. 