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Working With Resource People

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Gerald Gabriel
Department of Community Development

Resource people can and should play a vital role in changing communities. City governments, community institutions, organizations and groups are often confronted with issues that make special knowledge and assistance a must in forming intelligent decisions.

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Radon: An Indoor Health Hazard?

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Indoor air can be polluted in a number of ways. Indoor pollutants include formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, respirable dust, nitrogen dioxide, radon and other gases. This guide focuses on just one of these pollutants — radon.

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Maintaining Grassed Waterways

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Donald L. Pfost
Department of Agricultural Engineering

Larry Caldwell
USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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Red Clover

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Red clover is the most widely grown of all the true clovers. Visit our website today to learn more about red clovers.

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Soybean Variety Selection

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No one has yet developed a simple answer to the question of how to choose the best variety of soybean to grow, but it is the intent of this publication to present guidelines for choosing a variety for a given set of conditions.

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Design Criteria for Formless Concrete Flumes

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James Steichen
Department of Agricultural Engineering

Editor’s note
The PDF version of this publication includes illustrations.

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Feeding and Housing Dairy Goats

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Sound feeding and housing practices result in optimum goat growth and goat milk production. Visit our site to learn about Feeding and Housing Dairy Goats.

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Establishing Birdsfoot Trefoil in Bluegrass Sod

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Howell N. Wheaton
Department of Agronomy

Birdsfoot trefoil and Kentucky bluegrass will produce three times as much beef as unimproved bluegrass. Even heavily fertilized bluegrass will produce only 65 percent as much animal product as trefoil-bluegrass combination. See Table 1.

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Tips for Pony Pleasure Drivers

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Sharon Makurat and Melvin Bradley
Department of Animal Sciences

Who hasn't had visions of driving or riding a pony? It is one of the easiest, most economical and most rewarding horse experiences you can have. A pony offers endless hours of companionship, experience, pleasure and peer recognition, both in casual pleasure use and in organized group activities.

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The First Step Toward Waste Reduction: Industrial Waste Audits

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John M. Amos
Engineering Specialist, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Operation of a Bottom Withdrawal (Lake Cleaning) Spillway

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Donald L. Pfost
Department of Agricultural Engineering

David Rausch
Department of Agricultural Engineering
The Ohio State University

Larry Caldwell
USDA
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Stillwater, Oklahoma

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Using Food Processing Plant Waste on Fields

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Waste, or lime stabilized biomass (LSB), from food processing plants can be used for liming fields. Learn what LSB is, how it can be used, and the soil benefits it provides in this University of Missouri Extension guide.

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Agricultural Hand Signals

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Voice communications are impossible in certain agricultural situations due to distance and noise. For this reason, standard Agricultural Hand Signals have been developed for farm machinery operators by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Hand signals can prevent accidents and save time. Use them and teach others to use them.

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Selecting Household Safety Equipment

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Marie Steinwachs
Office of Waste Management

Hazardous substances can enter your body in three ways: they can be ingested, inhaled or absorbed through the skin.

Common sense and a few pieces of safety equipment can protect you from exposure to hazardous substances.

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Land Grading for Irrigation: Design and Construction

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Land grading is used for irrigation and subsequent drainage. Visit our site for our Land Grading for Irrigation: Design and Construction guide.

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Backgrounding Calves Part 2: Herd Health and Feeding

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A good health program is critical to successful calf backgrounding. Visit our website today to learn more about backgrounding calves.

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Crownvetch

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Howell N. Wheaton
Department of Agronomy

Crownvetch, Coronilla varia L., is a cool season, hardy, perennial legume. It is not a true vetch, although it resembles common and hairy vetch. Crownvetch spreads from rhizomes and will form a dense cover. It has been used for soil stabilization and as an ornamental for many years.

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Store Hazardous Products Safely

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Marie Steinwachs
Office of Waste Management

Your home may be an accident waiting to happen

Many preventable accidents, injuries, illnesses and fires occur in homes due to unsafe storage of hazardous products.

A product is considered hazardous if it has one of more of the following properties:

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Selecting and Working With a Farm Building Contractor

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Neil F. Meador
Department of Agricultural Engineering

Two major tasks are involved in the successful completion of a new farm building — choosing the right building and selecting a good contractor to build it.

Most buildings constructed today are "pre-engineered," or package-type, buildings.

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Missouri Limestone Quality: What Is ENM?

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Daryl D. Buchholz
Department of Agronomy

Can you get a ton's worth of agricultural limestone out of a ton of agricultural limestone? Probably not. The effectiveness of agricultural limestone depends on two factors:

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Getting Problem Cows Pregnant

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H. Allen Garverick
Department of Dairy Sciences

Robert S. Youngquist
College of Veterinary Medicine

An average interval of 70 days from calving to first breeding and a high fertility rate are important to maximize efficiency in dairy herds. The results are more milk and calves at reduced cost.

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Dehumidifiers

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Fred M. Crawford
Department of Agricultural Engineering

Dehumidifiers reduce the moisture in the air. They provide comfort for people and reduce or eliminate deterioration of equipment due to rust, rot, mold and mildew.

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Sheep Pregnancy Checking by Ultrasonic Sound

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Ultrasonic sound waves can be used to determine sheep pregnancy without harming the ewe or fetus. Learn how the procedure works and pregnancy is diagnosed in this University of Missouri Extension guide.

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Earthen Pits (Basins) for Liquid Dairy Waste

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Charles D. Fulhage and Donald L. Pfost
Department of Agricultural Engineering

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Identifying Product Hazards: Material Safety Data Sheets

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Marie Steinwachs
Office of Waste Management

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