Ag News and Views: April 1997

April, 1997 Table of Contents News & Views Archive Issues

Economics
Cattle at the Crossroads by Fred Schmedt
Random thoughts while wondering who will be the cattle-persons of the 21st century?

Forage
Forage Flow by Chuck Coffey
It's time for you to begin estimating your forage supply/demand for the livestock you wish to support this year on warm-season forages.

Horticulture
Alternative Agriculture by Sean Maher
During the eighties, the buzz word we all heard a lot was alternative agriculture. Horticultural crops, particularly vegetables or "truck crops" gained the most attention. I was a horticulture student at OSU in the mid-eighties and I rode that wave of alternative ag and all that it promised.

Livestock
The Noble Foundation Retained Ownership Program by John Winder
The program was initiated in November as a pilot project to evaluate the feasibility of a multi-owner system. The program was designed to include both wheat pasture and feedlot phases.

Research
Fall-Winter Forage Performance Update of Small Grains in Noble Foundation Tests by Jerry Baker
Table listing grain yields and estimated returns for small grains varieties for 1996-97.

Soils
Will Nitrogen Applications Affect the Distribution of Bermudagrass Forage Production? by Wadell Altom
We often discuss bermudagrass as being a very "short season" forage plant but I did not realize how short it can be until I reviewed some yield data.

Wildlife
Aging White-Tailed Deer by Ken Gee
The most widely used and accepted technique of aging deer is based on tooth replacement and tooth wear associated with the lower jawbone. The technique was first described in 1949. Since that time, very little work has been reported evaluating the technique using free-ranging, known-age deer.