Drivers of Pasture Growth in Perennial Ryegrass Pastures in Northern New Zealand Dairy Pastures

The critical importance of pasture production to New Zealand’s economic performance has been widely recognised. However, a number of critical issues have been identified that limit dairy industry growth, including sub-optimal pasture condition and poor pasture persistence. Dairy farm systems in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty provinces in the upper North Island of New Zealand are predominantly pasture-based, with a temperate climate and they represent around 30% of New Zealand’s total number of dairy farms (LIC and DairyNZ, 2012). This project was established to quantify pasture performance and identify factors that drive that performance. We established a network of on-farm trials where case studies of pasture renewal practices and outcomes were developed. Ten farms in each province were monitored for three consecutive years – four paddocks from each province are considered here

Mass casualty events: what to do as the dust settles?

Care during mass casualty events (MCE) has improved during the last 15 years. Military and civilian collaboration has led to partnerships which augment the response to MCE. Much has been written about strategies to deliver care during an MCE, but there is little about how to transition back to normal operations after an event. A panel discussion entitled The Day(s) After: Lessons Learned from Trauma Team Management in the Aftermath of an Unexpected Mass Casualty Event at the 76th Annual American Association for the Surgery of Trauma meeting on September 13, 2017 brought together a cadre of military and civilian surgeons with experience in MCEs. The events described were the First Battle of Mogadishu (1993), the Second Battle of Fallujah (2004), the Bagram Detention Center Rocket Attack (2014), the Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), the Asiana Flight 214 Plane Crash (2013), the Baltimore Riots (2015), and the Orlando Pulse Night Club Shooting (2016). This article focuses on the lessons learned from military and civilian surgeons in the days after MCEs

The Ursinus Weekly, January 21, 1957

Annual Lorelei scheduled for Friday, February 15, 9 p.m. • Programs planned by Newman Club • Collegeville central office to change • Pre-meds hear Briody; Plan future programs • Die Germania hears poetical works read • Bells for finals • Student teachers fete advisors and UC department heads • Chi Alpha has speeches, discussion on evangelism • Bosworth talks to Y meeting on youth delinquency • Meaning of evaluation • St. John Terrell to speak at U.C. Forum on February 13 • Frosh class has Showboat dance • YM-YW to sponsor used book center • Phila. Museum of Art to present feature films • APO inducts new advisors, members • Editorial: Most valuable • Letters to the editor • Charge of the pink lemonade • Memo on dancing • That dose of kerosene • Heavyweight pin in 15 sec. decides Garnet win, Bruins maul Albright • Cubs top Haverford; Lose to PMC, Swarthmore • Matmen to meet Lafayette Tuesday • Mermaids begin early practice • Cagers run lose streak to ten; Drop to last in M.A.C. • Revised exam schedule • Home thanks Beta Sig for Christmas party • Curtain Club to present The Valiant Feb. 26https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1420/thumbnail.jp

Remote Sensing of Pasture Quality

Worldwide, farming systems are undergoing significant changes due to economic, environmental and social drivers. Agribusinesses must increasingly deliver products specified in terms of safety, health and quality. Increasing constraints are being placed on them by the market, the community and by government to achieve a financial benefit within social and environmental limits (Dynes et al. 2003). In order to meet these goals, producers must know the quantity and quality of the inputs into their feeding systems, be able to reliably predict the products and by-products being generated, and have the skills to be able to manage their business accordingly. Easy access to accurate and objective evaluation of forage is the first key component to meeting these objectives in livestock systems (Dynes et al. 2003) and remote sensing has considerable potential to be informative and cost-effective (Pullanagari et al. 2012b)

Improving Summer/Autumn Feed Quality in New Zealand Hill Country

Pasture management in spring has a strong influence on pasture quality in summer and autumn in New Zealand hill country pastures. Manipulation of defoliation frequency and intensity during mid-late spring can impact summer and autumn pasture quality and quantity (Orr et al. 1988). Summer/autumn management is mainly concerned with maintaining herbage quality in summer wet areas and controlling animal pressure in summer dry areas for drought management and winter feed stocks (Clark 1994). Deferred grazing to transfer pasture growth from late spring into summer and autumn deficits is difficult due to detrimental effects on pasture quality, plant density and species composition (Sheath et al. 1987). Various grazing management models have been published to inform hill farmers of pasture management considerations during this period (Smith and Dawson 1977; Sheath and Bircham 1983; Sheath et al. 1987). It has previously been shown that management of late spring surpluses to restrict reproductive growth will increase summer pasture quality through a reduction in accumulated stem and dead material and an increase in clover content (Sheath et al. 1987). However, there is no information on the longevity of these effects. This trial aimed to determine the effect of different defoliation intensities during spring on herbage quality and composition throughout the subsequent summer-autumn period

The Ursinus Weekly, December 10, 1956

Christmas parties for children given by three groups • Holy Communion to be held Dec. 13 • Class of 1959 sponsors Dogpatch drag Dec. 8 • Morning watch to be held by SWC • Weekly staffs have Christmas dinner, Dec. 4 • APO offers share-the-ride plan to students • Nineteenth annual Messiah presented Thursday, Dec. 6 • MSGA council issues warnings on speeding, parking • Y groups hear two speakers Wed. • SRC presents Coffee klatch on Fridays • Graduation programs on sale during this week • Annual Christmas ball to take place Wednesday night • UC Help Hungary drive ends Friday • Resumes for interviews due on Friday, Dec. 14 • Lantern appears tomorrow • Editorial: It\u27s an idiom; Our morality and the foreign policy • Letters to the editor • Christmas song • Old dog, new tricks • Modern Christmas carol • Intramurals move into full swing; Derr, Curtis III are teams to beat • Cubs top Pharm; Could go unbeaten • Court belles top alumni, 56-36, Sat. • Famous, Donnelly receive Eastern grid honors • Bears seek win Tues. night after dropping four straight • Grapplers to open on Jan. 12; Heavy divisions very weak • Althouse - Haverstick engagement • Inquirer releases Phila. best-selling book list • McClures to give party for Jr. and Sr. women • Ursinus Circle has Christmas music program • Twelve students to appear in 1957 college Who\u27s who • Pre-med, chem societies to have joint meeting • Schrull - Engel engagement • Curtain Club group sees Measure for measure • Class rules are published by two student councilshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1418/thumbnail.jp

The Cosmic Horseshoe: Discovery of an Einstein Ring around a Giant Luminous Red Galaxy

We report the discovery of an almost complete Einstein ring of diameter 10" in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5). Spectroscopic data from the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory reveals that the deflecting galaxy has a line-of-sight velocity dispersion in excess of 400 km/s and a redshift of 0.444, whilst the source is a star-forming galaxy with a redshift of 2.379. From its color and luminosity, we conclude that the lens is an exceptionally massive Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) with a mass within the Einstein radius of 5 x 10^12 solar masses. This remarkable system provides a laboratory for probing the dark matter distribution in LRGs at distances out to 3 effective radii, and studying the properties of high redshift star-forming galaxies.Comment: ApJ (Letters), in pres

The Ursinus Weekly, February 18, 1957

Visiting group to complete U.C. evaluation this week • Twenty students enter at mid-year • Men\u27s council hears suggestions • Curtain Club to present The Valiant on Feb. 26 • W.F. Speilman, member of UC maintenance staff, dies • Chest drive dates released • Y association to hear refugees • Senate decides on WSGA revisions • Frosh women\u27s representatives chosen; To be installed on Color Day, Thursday • St. John Terrell addresses Forum on drama history • Peirce - Pauli engagement • Dave Burger made king of annual Lorelei, Fri., Feb. 15 • Selective Service rules published by administration • Snyder receives Ph.D. degree Feb. 9 • S.R.C. discusses mental health • Two UC women attend confab on religious work • Chess Club plays F&M • Editorial: Word of welcome and some comments on evaluation • May Day • Brotherhood Week and the work of the National Conference of Christians and Jews • IRC to hear talk tonight on U.S. and Phillipines • Age of service • Cagers lose to Fords in overtime; Lose to Garnet five Saturday, 84-64 • Ursinus mermaids defeat Drexel Wed. • Belles register two net shutouts • William Yost resigns from court post • Padula stopped as matmen score win over E\u27town, Sat. • Chi Alpha hears Baker, sponsors weekly talks • Newman Club to hear discussion on J.H. Newman • Y heads discuss activities, plans at retreat, Sat. • Pre-med society hears Mercurio; Plans dinner • Fourteen go on mid-year trip to Washington, D.C. • Reed and Barton contest to run through Feb., Mar.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1421/thumbnail.jp