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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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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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Understanding and Using Sire Summaries: BIF Fact Sheet

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Sire selection is one of the most important decisions cow/calf producers make. If it is effective, sire selection will account for nearly 90 percent of the genetic improvement in a herd.

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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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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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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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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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For the Unprepared: Home Heating in an Emergency

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Adapted by MU Extension specialists from material prepared by Cooperative Extension Service, University of New Hampshire, Durham.

Your home heat is gone. You've just discovered your heating system may be off for several days. It's cold outside; the inside temperature is dropping, and you have a first class emergency on your hands. What can you do?

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How to Build a Compost Bin

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Learn about five types of composting and how to build a composting bin. Worm and hemp composting, wire-mesh and snow-fence holding units, and wood and wire three-bin turning units are all covered in this University of Missouri Extension guide.

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Nitrate and Water

Reviewed

Marshall Christy and George S. Smith
Department of Agronomy

J.R. Brown
School of Natural Resources

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Common Internal Parasites of Cattle

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Robert M. Corwin
Department of Veterinary Microbiology
College of Veterinary Medicine

Richard F. Randle
Commercial Agriculture Program

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Shared Housing

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Leo L. Cram
Missouri Gerontology Institute

A 70-year-old widow lives alone. She finds that her house is difficult to maintain, and she worries about having someone close by in case she falls. An 85-year-old woman is living in an unlicensed boarding home. She wants to move because she is expected to remain in her small room most of the day.

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Home Slaughtering and Processing of Beef

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A beef animal selected for slaughter should be healthy and in thrifty condition. Visit our site to learn about home slaughtering and processing of beef.

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Phosphorus in Missouri Soils

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Harry C. Minor and John Stecker
Department of Agronomy

J.R. Brown
School of Natural Resources

In Missouri, soils generally contain from 800 to 2,000 pounds of total phosphorus (P) per acre. Most of the phosphorus is fixed, that is, not available for use by plants.

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Forages for Cattle: New Methods of Determining Energy Content and Evaluating Heat Damage

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Ronald L. Belyea and Rex E. Ricketts
Department of Animal Sciences

Improved system of forage analysis

The crude fiber method of feed analysis has been used for more than 100 years. Although this method was an important first attempt at determining the energy content of feeds, it has a number of shortcomings.

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Corn Silage

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Corn silage is a popular forage for ruminant animals because it is high in energy and digestibility. Visit our site to learn more about corn silage.

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Simple Home Repairs: Screened Doors and Windows

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Patricia Klobe
Department of Environmental Design

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Barley

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Winter and spring barleys are available, but testing in Missouri indicates spring barley does poorly. Plus, six-row barleys have higher yield potential than two-row barleys in Missouri. Therefore, this publication covers only the six-row winter barleys.

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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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Low-Profile Bins for Grain Drying

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David L. Williams
Department of Agricultural Engineering

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Feeding Dairy Cattle for Proper Body Condition Score

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Richard J. Grant and Jeffrey F. Keown
Extension Dairy Specialists, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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