Rates Paid for Custom Work in South Dakota, 1986

This publication was developed to provide average custom rate information, the rates most frequently reported, and ranges in rates for the major custom operations performed on farms and ranches in the state. Custom rate information was compiled from county agricultural agents, custom machine operators, and agricultural businesses throughout the state

In Vitro Digestibility of Diallel and Polycross Progenies of Intermediate Wheatgrass

Previous forage plant evaluation by breeders has centered around agronomic factors that determine persistence and forage and seed production with little consideration given to utilization. Forages must be consumed by animals for utilization, so forage quality as it relates to the animal should be an important evaluation factor. Plants and animals function together in determining forage quality. Such plant characters as leafiness, coarseness, height and physiological age are easily observed and deternd.ne quality to a degree. Other components such as digestibility, lignin and protein are just as important, but cannot be determined as easily. Animal acceptance and consumption are also measures of forage quality. The ultimate determination of quality, though, is expressed in the production of utilizable animal product. Forage breeding programs are concerned with large numbers of samples and small quantities of plant material per sample. Using animals to determine quality differences in this situation is not possible. The recent development of in vitro methods has made it practical for the forage breeder to screen selection nurseries on an individual plant basis to determine differences of quality. Such screening is an adequate preliminary step in the development of a forage strain of superior quality. Intermediate wheatgrass was selected for this study because this species is becoming increasingly important as a superior cool-season grass for pasture and hay in the northern Great Plains, Great Basin and Intermountain areas where the annual precipitation is 14 inches or more. The estimated acreages of intermediate wheatgrass for all purposes in South Dakota is about 60, 000 acres. An increase in digestibility of only 5 percent could result in an additional 6!000 tons of utilizable dry matter from this acreage. This research was conducted with the following objectives: 1. To determine if in vitro dry matter digestibility techniques could be used to determine differences in digestibility between genotypes in the screening of intermediate wheatgrass selection nurseries. 2. To determine if certain plant parts of intermediate wheatgrass could be used as adequate predictors of digestibility for the whole plant. 3. To determine the nature of inheritance of in vitro dry matter digestibility within two crossing nurseries of intermediate wheatgrass

Analysis Of Multi-Platform Mobile Application Development

The variety of mobile devices and their operating platforms has rapidly increased. With this increase come separate standards, programming languages, and distribution markets. Typically developers want to deliver their products to a variety of users encompassing various platforms; however choosing to develop using a native program for a platform can delay the development and release on another platform. Multi-platform development applications were created in order to deploy applications to various platforms in a more timely and cost efficient manner by using a single code base. The purpose of this study was to investigate the multi-platform development applications MoSync, Appcelerator, and PhoneGap, create a test application using each multi-platform development application to run on the Android emulator and iOS simulator to determine performance, and also determine which multi-platform application was best suited for allowing a developer to create a mobile application that could be utilized on a variety of platforms

Tools For School: Student Fluency And Perception Of Cell Phones Used For Learning

Technology is changing the way society interacts, communicates, collaborates, and learns. Improved cell phone capabilities and an ever increasing amount of cell phone applications allow individuals to connect globally and afford almost instantaneous access to information inside and outside the classroom. The majority of students today possesses and uses cell phones and cell phone technology in most every aspect of their daily lives. Most schools enforce current policies banning cell phone use within classrooms during the school day. The purpose of this study was to investigate current high school junior and senior academic standing students\u27 mobile cell phone technology use, student perception of high school current cell phone usage policies, student perception of cell phones as possible educational learning tools, student perception of attitudes and views of others regarding cell phone use in schools, and to explore potential perceptional differences by gender. Significant perceptional gender differences were uncovered. Females were found to perceive school policy more favorably, whereas males were found to perceive the possibilities of cell phone use within the classroom as a learning tool more favorably

Einfluss der Kultur auf die Wirksamkeit von Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Arbeitsproduktivität in ausländischen Produktionsstätten – eine empirische Analyse mit Expertenbefragung

The implementation of measures to increase labor productivity in foreign production facilities encounters cultural barriers. This paper analyzes these cultural barriers and their influence on the success of the applied measures. For this purpose, certain productivity-increasing measures at foreign production sites were empirically analyzed for their cultural suitability. The cultural barriers encountered in the application of the measures were analyzed using a specially created model based on Hofstede's four cultural dimensions. A preliminary case study was conducted to analyze the cultural fit of selected measures in a company. The analysis of the measures using the model was then extended to different cultural regions. The findings from expert interviews were obtained and validated by means of method triangulation. This resulted in cross-cultural interpretations of the individual measures on the one hand and cross-measure findings on cultural barriers and their effect on the success of measures on the other. The influence of culture on the effectiveness of methods and measures in increasing labor productivity was empirically demonstrated. These culturally determined barriers varied in conjunction with implementation of methods and measures depending on the cultural region studied. It was shown that different cultural characteristics have a different influence on the success of the applied methods and measures. With the generated model, it was possible to capture the multidimensional cultural barriers through the four cultural dimensions. This way of looking at the complex influence of culture in the creation of barriers in individual cultural dimensions also enabled a differentiated view of the creation of these barriers. A future research topic could be to find out which measures can neutralize the barriers or at least reduce their influence

Rates Paid for Custom Work in South Dakota

This publication shows average rates and the rates most frequently reported for the major custom operations performed on farms and ranches in the state. These rates are shown for the state as a whole and for six economic areas