

Integrating Practices That Benefit Wildlife With Crops Grown for Biomass in Missouri
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Learn how to integrate wildlife-friendly practices into biomass crop production in Missouri, including using mixed stands and strategic field layouts.


Common Lambsquarters Management in Soybean
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Palmer Amaranth: A New Threat
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Enhancing White-Tailed Deer Habitats on Your Property: Woodlands and Forests
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White-tailed deer management
This deer conservation guide is one in a series developed jointly by MU Extension and the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Dairy Grazing: Fence and Water Systems
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This publication describes various fence and water systems appropriate for dairy grazing management.

Apps to Know From the Nutrition and Health Pros
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A SMART Start to Finding Nutrition and Health Apps
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Assessing Wildlife Habitats and Natural Resources in Neighborhoods and Urban Environments: A Planning Guide for Wildlife Habitats in Urban Areas
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Individual homeowners, neighborhood groups, developers and city planners who are interested in enhancing wildlife habitat and managing natural resources within a community or neighborhood can use this assessment tool to gather information on the species of wildlife and types and conditions of vegetation in the area. This information can be used to develop a plan to protect, or establish, and manage native vegetation that is beneficial to a variety of wildlife species.

Enhancing White-Tailed Deer Habitats on Your Property: Early Successional Vegetation
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White-tailed deer management
This deer conservation guide is one in a series developed jointly by MU Extension and the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Dairy Grazing: Milk Quality
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Learn strategies to enhance milk quality in pasture-based dairies, focusing on mastitis prevention, somatic cell count reduction, and best management practices.

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
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Ticks are vectors of disease in domestic and wild animals throughout the world. Visit our site to learn about Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases.

Cambio de Colores — Latinos in the Heartland: At the Crossroads: ¿Incorporation or Marginalization?
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This publication compiles abstracts and selected papers from the 2012 Cambio de Colores conference, focusing on Latino integration in the Midwest.

Enhancing White-Tailed Deer Habitats on Your Property: Food Plots
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Landowners who are managing their land for white-tailed deer may consider planting food plots to provide a supplemental food source. Food plots should never be considered a substitute for managing the native vegetation to provide quality food sources. In situations where food plots would contribute to deer management objectives, the plots need to be established and maintained properly.

Enhancing White-Tailed Deer Habitats on Your Property: Evaluating Habitat
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White-tailed deer management
This deer conservation guide is one in a series developed jointly by MU Extension and the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Garden 'n Grow: Gardener's Notebook
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Introduction to Fire Origin and Cause, Fourth Edition Manual
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This manual is designed to train firefighters beyond the certification level and make them better qualified. It is intended for firefighters and company officers who may be called upon to protect evidence that may be of value to an investigation or begin the investigation of the fire themselves.

Seventh and Eighth Grade Curriculum: Choices and Challenges, Fifth Edition
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Recommended Chemical Soil Test Procedures for the North Central Region
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This publication is a revision of North Central Regional Research Publication No. 221 (NCR221).

Establishing and Managing Early Successional Habitats for Wildlife on Agricultural Lands
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Learn to enhance wildlife habitats on farms with practical strategies for quail, grassland birds, and rabbits, integrating conservation with crop management.

Establishing and Managing Early Successional Habitats for Wildlife on Agricultural Lands, Page 2
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Changes in land use have resulted in a loss of habitat for many wildlife species that are dependent on early successional plant communities for food and cover.

Establishing and Managing Early Successional Habitats for Wildlife on Agricultural Lands, Page 5
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Protecting shrubs and thickets and allowing plant succession to advance can create areas of escape cover that are valuable habitats for bobwhite quail.

MyPlate: The School Day Just Got Healthier
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Establishing and Managing Early Successional Habitats for Wildlife on Agricultural Lands, Page 3
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The ideal bobwhite quail habitat has a mixture of three plant communities, interspersed closely together.

Establishing and Managing Early Successional Habitats for Wildlife on Agricultural Lands, Page 6
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The bobwhite quail is not the only wildlife species that has benefitted from these management practices. Research has shown that more than 100 species benefit from the creation and management of early successional plant communities in Missouri.