ABCD – The Building Blocks that Help a Community Grow

Asset-based community development (ABCD) is a way to look at our communities. Community development has often been viewed as something that a community is subjected to from the outside and that requires outside resources such as economic development grants to implement. ABCD is founded on the concept that each community already has a tremendous number of assets, which, if only accessed and channeled, can provide the resources necessary for success. ABCD searches out the strengths of a community as means of sustainable development

South Dakota Beef Herd Profitability 1986-1993

The average profitability of beef cow herds evaluated by the South Dakota Farm Business Management group has ranged from $201 profit in 1987 to$104 profit per cow in 1993. Average total costs per cow in a pasture drylot have increased from $180 in 1986 to$310 in 1993. Average total cow costs of range run have increased from $1 66 in 1986 to$302 in 1993. High profit herds in both range run and pasture drylot had lower 8-year average total costs, $264/cow drylot high profit compared to$272 drylot average (-3%) and $252/ cow range high profit compared to$264 range average (-4.5%). Yet high profit herds produced greater total income/cow: $489/ cow Drylot High Profit to$401 Drylot Average (+22%); $451/ cow Range Run High Profit to$392 Range Run Average (+ 15%)

Relationship Awareness: How Managers Can Improve Employee Performance

The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact [email protected] for further information.Migrated from OJS platform March 2020Legacy DOIs that must be preserved: 10.2458/azu_rangelands_v32i4_john_ha