Design, development, fabrication and delivery of fluidic accelerometers Final report

Design optimization and production of fluidic accelerometer for angular rate measurement

Badlands Agriculture and Environmental Research Center

This project, titled Badlands Agriculture and Environmental Research Center, is an examination of local agriculture and how it can be reconnected to a larger community. This project fits into a research/living/learning center typology that is more agriculture urban, rather than urban agriculture. The idea behind this investigation is that we have lost a connection with food production. There is more concern in recent times about food sourcing and contamination. This investigation seeks to bridge that gap on how communities can reconnect with farmers in the area and source and learn about initiatives, such as farm to table and value added agriculture. The primary clients of this facility are the researchers and students that will live there. The community at large also benefits from this facility. This facility is situated in western North Dakota, with proximity to Dickinson, but amongst the prairie. The building is also roughly 200,000 square feet. The emphasis of this project is reconnecting people to the source of their food and educating them along the way. This project will proceed by pursuing farm to table agriculture and healthy building environments that foster a sustainable lifestyle and nurture human health. Documentation of this process will be accomplished through research notes and photography at major developments of the project

Study of fluidic roll control for sounding rocket applications

Fluidic roll control for Aerobee rocket vehicl

The North Dakota preconditioning program

AS-696; The North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association (BCIA) is continuing its leadership in supporting a CERTIFIED PRECONDITIONING PROGRAM for North Dakota calves. This program is also supported by the North Dakota Cattle Feeders Association, the North Dakota Cooperative Extension Service, the North Dakota Feed Manufacturers Association, the North Dakota Livestock Markets, the North Dakota Stockmen's Association and the North Dakota Verterinary Medical Association

Development of the Testes, Epididymides, and Sexual Behavior of Fall-born Crossbred Ram Lambs

Animal Scienc

Association of Natural Photoperiod with Scrotal Circumference, Inguinal Cutaneous Hyperemia, Endocrine Function and May~june Fertility in Mature F2 Finnish Landrace X Dorset Rams

Animal Breedin

Maximizing Use of an Extension Beef Cattle Data Set: Part 2—Reproductive Rates

Previously, we described CHAPS20Y, a historical data set, and trends in CHAPS20Y calving distributions. In this article, we describe reproductive rates, including total females exposed to bull(s), pregnancy, pregnancy loss, calving, calf death loss, weaning, culling, and replacement percentages. Yearly mean exposed females increased from 1994 through 2013, consistent with a greater replacement percentage versus culling percentage. Yearly mean reproductive percentages varied over time. Factors such as weather, body condition, temperament, nutrition, and health likely contributed to this variation. CHAPS20Y is a tool Extension professionals can use to understand beef reproductive rates and help producers set and achieve their herd management goals

Maximizing Use of Extension Beef Cattle Benchmarks Data Derived from Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software

One goal of Extension is to provide practical information that makes a difference to producers. Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software (CHAPS) has provided beef producers with production benchmarks for 30 years, creating a large historical data set. Many such large data sets contain useful information but are underutilized. Our goal was to create a 20-year data set (CHAPS20Y) to examine trends in beef production from 1994 to 2013. In this article, we describe the CHAPS program and the process used to select herds for CHAPS20Y. We hope to publish additional related articles that will examine trends in calving distributions, reproduction, and growth and discuss implications for producers and Extension