An Economic Analysis of High-Intensity, Short-duration Grazing Systems in South Dakota and Nebraska

Four different grazing systems: two rotational systems, a continuous grazing system, and a modified high-intensity, short-duration (mob) system were evaluated from an economic return and risk perspective. Stocking rates and average daily gains (ADG) were obtained from 2011 – 2014 from university ranch experiments in northern Nebraska. Simulation models were used to examine net returns and risk in each system and rank systems according to risk preferences. A twice through rotational grazing system was most profitable. Mob grazing was the least preferred, although when risk aversion increased, it rose in preference. Mob grazing could be profitable if adjustments increased animal performance

Reading: Larry McMurtry

In this audiovisual recording from March 17, 1987 as part of the 18th annual UND Writing Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” Larry McMurtry reads from All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers and Lonesome Dove (Note: this section of the reading is interrupted). McMurty also responds to audience questions concerning the adaptation of his work into film, his forthcoming novel Texasville, his Western settings, the early stages of Lonesome Dove, his interest in the period of trail driving, and generating and developing characters. Introduced by Laurel Reuter

All my Friends are Going to Be Strangers

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The Last Picture-Show

From the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: New

Panel

This audiovisual recording from March 18, 1987 as part of the 18th annual UND Writing Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage” features a panel comprised of Larry McMurty and Elizabeth Tallent. The panelists discuss perceptions of West and open spaces, memories of growing up in open spaces, how landscape directs their work, social expectations connected to particular places, developing dynamic characters, completing the task of writing a short story, nostalgic writing about a romanticized West, regrets, writing across cultural and gender distinctions, their primary education, measuring success as a writer, and consciousness in writing. Moderator: John Little