Review of \u3ci\u3eRe-Imagining Ukranian Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity\u3c/i\u3e edited by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk

Hinther and Mochoruk offer the reader an interdisciplinary look at aspects of Canadian history through the prism of the Ukrainian Canadian experience. The volume includes contributions from an array of specialists: historians, literary critics, archivists, curators, geographers, and others. Consequently, the quality of the articles is wide-ranging, but overall the editors succeed in demonstrating that the immigrant experience is neither homogeneous nor adequately studied. The editors\u27 introduction is most helpful, succinctly describing the state of academic inquiry into the Ukrainian Canadian experience. The editors accurately describe the mythology of the prairie peasant-cum-dangerous foreigner. They present the evolution of scholarship from essentializing Ukrainian identity to recognizing its complex nature, noting the invaluable works of Frances Swyripa and Orest Martynowych. The volume\u27s focus on the Ukrainian Canadian left and the early and mid-twentieth-century shift of community activity to urban centers deepens our understanding of this complexity. Nevertheless, there is a surprising lack of attention to the prairie experience

Características estruturais e produção de leite em pastos de capim-mombaça (Panicum maximum Jacq.) submetidos a diferentes alturas de pastejo Structure and milk production in Mombaça Grass (Panicum maximum Jacq.) swards submitted to different grazing heights

A estrutura do pasto pode ser vista como uma determinante da dinâmica de crescimento, da competição nas comunidades vegetais e também do comportamento ingestivo dos animais em pastejo. Dessa forma, este experimento foi conduzido com o objetivo de avaliar duas alturas de pré e pós-pastejo na produção de leite e em algumas características morfológicas e estruturais do capim-mombaça (Panicum maximum Jacq. cv Mombaça). O delineamento experimental utilizado foi inteiramente casualizado, com dois tratamentos (alturas em pré-pastejo de 90cm para a estrutura baixa e de 140cm para a estrutura alta) e quatro repetições. Utilizou-se o pastejo rotacionado, com período de ocupação de três dias e seis vacas holandesas por tratamento. O dossel mais alto apresentou maior massa de perfilho, maior comprimento e área foliar das lâminas, mas menor densidade populacional de perfilhos que o dossel mais baixo (PThe herbage growth dynamics, plant community competition and grazing animal behaviour on grasslands can be affected by sward structure. This study was aimed at evaluating contrasting pre-grazing sward heights on milk production of cows and some morphophysiological characteristics of mombaça grass (Panicum maximum Jacq. Cv Mombaça) submitted to grazing. The experiment was carried out in a complete randomized design with two treatments (sward surface heights of 90cm and 140cm on pre-grazing) and four repilitions. Each plot was grazed by six Holstein-friesian cows with similar milk production and lactation time. The grazing method used was intermittent with a three days occupation period and six grazing cows were used as tester per treatment. The higher sward surface height presented greater tiller mass, leaf length and area, and tiller population density (P<0.10). Milk production was greater to the shortest sward height (P<0.10). Mombaça grass should be grazed at sward heights lower than 100cm

Structure and milk production in Mombaça Grass (Panicum maximum Jacq.) swards submitted to different grazing heights

A estrutura do pasto pode ser vista como uma determinante da dinâmica de crescimento, da competição nas comunidades vegetais e também do comportamento ingestivo dos animais em pastejo. Dessa forma, este experimento foi conduzido com o objetivo de avaliar duas alturas de pré e pós-pastejo na produção de leite e em algumas características morfológicas e estruturais do capim-mombaça (Panicum maximum Jacq. cv Mombaça). O delineamento experimental utilizado foi inteiramente casualizado, com dois tratamentos (alturas em pré-pastejo de 90cm para a estrutura baixa e de 140cm para a estrutura alta) e quatro repetições. Utilizou-se o pastejo rotacionado, com período de ocupação de três dias e seis vacas holandesas por tratamento. O dossel mais alto apresentou maior massa de perfilho, maior comprimento e área foliar das lâminas, mas menor densidade populacional de perfilhos que o dossel mais baixo (P<0,10). A produção de leite obtida foi maior no dossel mais baixo (P<0,10). Pode-se concluir que pastos de capim-mombaça devem ser manejados em altura de pré-pastejo inferiores a 100cm.The herbage growth dynamics, plant community competition and grazing animal behaviour on grasslands can be affected by sward structure. This study was aimed at evaluating contrasting pre-grazing sward heights on milk production of cows and some morphophysiological characteristics of mombaça grass (Panicum maximum Jacq. Cv Mombaça) submitted to grazing. The experiment was carried out in a complete randomized design with two treatments (sward surface heights of 90cm and 140cm on pre-grazing) and four repilitions. Each plot was grazed by six Holstein-friesian cows with similar milk production and lactation time. The grazing method used was intermittent with a three days occupation period and six grazing cows were used as tester per treatment. The higher sward surface height presented greater tiller mass, leaf length and area, and tiller population density (P<0.10). Milk production was greater to the shortest sward height (P<0.10). Mombaça grass should be grazed at sward heights lower than 100cm