Economic Assessment of Steers Pastured at Three Stocking Rates Under a Rotational Grazing System

Last updated: 6/12/200

Economic Assessment of Feedlot and Overall Stocker-Feedlot Performance for Steers and Heifers, 1998-99

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Pasture Costs for Cows and Calves Grazing Ryegrass + Nitrogen or Clover + Potassium

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Economic Assessment of Steers Pastured at Three Stocking Rates Under a Continuous Grazing System

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The Linguistic Perspectives onComputer Mediated Communication

This paper aims to explore the role of production and perception constraints in computer mediated communication. I review Lindblom's (1990) theory of phonetic variation and propose a new model of linguistic production in Computer Mediated Communication. Cyber citizens use cyber communication as conceptually oral, medially written. The reason to use chat-mode is that it saves time and space (the principle of least effort); here sound, not spelling, is the first thing to be considered. With respect to production in the proposed model, effort is no longer equated with articulatory movement, but rather with the number of keystrokes involved in typing an utterance. On discussing online, discussants show paralinguistic actions such as smile, frown, screaming, etc., and they also reduplicate writings, capitalize all the sentences, and use emoticons; net-communication is headed toward less grammatical and more telegraphic type. The production of hyper-and hypo-forms such as reduplication, punctuation and capitalization will vary according to the sender's estimation of signal-complementary processes and his attempts to compensate for the restricted context.We discuss online and off line on the issues; why we like cyber communication and how we classify the phenomena. The more computer mediated communications we use, the moreissues we have to review beyond words and linguistic principles

Improvement of Rose Clover Winter Forage Production

Rose clover (Trifolium hirtum All.) is a winter annual forage legume that has potential for increased use in the U.S. southern region. New cultivars of rose clover are needed with the combination of cold tolerance, winter forage production and full bloom date of late April. Crosses were made between two early flowering cultivars and one late flowering rose clover cultivar. The F2 and F3 generations from these crosses were evaluated in northeast Texas for winter growth, cold damage and date of flowering. Fourteen F3 lines, out of 37 selected F2 parents, showed large increases (\u3e100%) in plant size on 9 Feb., relative to the late flowering rose clover parent

Breeding Forage Legumes to Complement Warm Season Perennial Grass Pastures in the US Southern Region

Perennial warm-season grass pastures, primarily bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon [L] Pers..)) and bahia grass (Paspalum notatum Flugge)),, cover approximately 12 million hectares in the US southern region (US Census of Agric. 2002). These grasses are used for grazing, hay production or both. Bermuda grass and bahia grass are dormant from late fall until early spring with some variation in total dormancy period depending on seasonal conditions and latitude. Cool-season forage legumes can be over-seeded in the fall before the perennial grasses become dormant, providing winter grazing and nitrogen for the pasture system. The legumes sown in these grasslands are often acid tolerant species from the Trifolium genus as the predominant soils of the US southern region are sandy, acidic and highly leached. Legume breeding programs have been in place for 30 years with the general objective to develop more reliable forage legume cultivars to co-exist in these perennial grassland systems. Our improvement programs have addressed such problems as virus and fungal disease susceptibility (Pemberton et al. 1989; Pemberton et al. 1998) in arrowleaf clover (Trifolium vesiculosum Savi.), poor seedling regeneration (Evers and Smith, 2006) in crimson clover (T. incarnatum L.) and low persistence in white clover (T. repens L.). These research efforts are further described below

Wildlife forage areas and food plots for deer

Last updated: 6/3/200

Establishment and management of Apache arrowleaf clover

Last updated: 6/1/200

Legislation 1920.07

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