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January 5, 2006 Central Grasslands Center to Host Event The 2006 North Dakota State University Central Grasslands Research Extension Center’s Grass-n-Beef Research Review will be Jan. 20 at Friends Café in Streeter. The event begins at 10 a.m. D.C. Coston, NDSU’s vice president for Agriculture and University Extension, will provide opening remarks. Paul Nyren, center director, will follow with an overview of center developments. Annie Kirschenmann, director of the Medina, N.D.-based Foundation for Agricultural and Rural Resources Management and Sustainability, and Todd Mortenson, a cattle rancher from Pierre, S.D., are the guest speakers. Kirschenmann, scheduled to speak at 11:45 a.m., will give a talk titled “Sustainable Agriculture and a Sustainable Future.” Mortenson, set to talk at 2:10 p.m., will provide a rancher’s view of whole-ranch management. Morning sessions, which start at 10:20 a.m., will be on the development of producer partnerships to create sustainable ranch/livestock enterprises, livestock management in a whole-enterprise management system at the Central Grasslands center, and using manure as a fertilizer in crop and pasture production. Afternoon sessions, set to start at 1:15 p.m., are on characteristics of financially successful farmers and evaluating beef cow performance, comparing crested wheatgrass/legume, big bluestem and foxtail millet for swath grazing. The event, which is free of charge, will include lunch. Registration is not required. For more information, contact Nyren at (701) 424-3606 or p.nyren@ndsu.edu. ### NDSU Agriculture Communication Source: Paul Nyren,
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