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• Register now for Tri-State Cow-Calf School set Feb. 19-20
• Scientist to speak on inhibitating anthrax toxin
• Register Now for Noxious Weed Management Certification
• Student and research flowering; Marigolds aren't
• 2002 Outlook for Montana agriculture
• Montanan appointed to top agricultural advisory board
• MSU alumnus wins top national crop advising award
• Internet marketing game intended to build producer skills
• Crop protection clinics set in four towns in February 
• MSU livestock team judges Steer-a-Year winners
• MSU Livestock Judging Team finishes first competition
• Grazing lands grants available
• MSU College of Ag scholarship applications are due Feb. 1
• Grain and cattle supplies still high in latest USDA forecast
• Hunting Makes Horses Hungry
• If you eat, ya gotta love agriculture
• Sign Up Now for Crop Pest School in January 2002

Special Topics

• Scientist to speak on inhibitating anthrax toxin
• Student and research flowering; Marigolds aren't
• Montanan appointed to top agricultural advisory board
• MSU alumnus wins top national crop advising award
• Terrorism prompts review of pesticide and equipment security
• From a meeting in Katmandu to a project at MSU, climate change researchers coordinate worldwide data
• Will your veggies measure up at the fair?
• Sobotka Memorial Agriculture Award Established
• From Winifred to Washington D.C.
• Ag Ed and Ag Operations Technology come Home to MSU College of Ag
• Night Farming -- Really!
• Shared-use Program Promises Big Results for Small Businesses
• Research suggests a need for additional genetic safety measures
• "What if?" Becomes a Powerful Tool for Montana Landuse Planners
• Ahead: A Virus That Can Fetch and Deliver
• Food Inspections: How's it Done?
• Scientists' Work Can be a Real Grind
• Keeping Hay Fires from Spontaneously Combusting
• Scientists are Sorting Out the Simple, but Dangerous Puzzle of Norwalk Virus

College of Ag Programs, Facilities, Staff, Funding . . . .

Marketing/Finances

• 2002 Outlook for Montana agriculture
• Internet marketing game intended to build producer skills
• Grain and cattle supplies still high in latest USDA forecast
• Montana Wheats Ranked Best by Buyers
• Montana agricultural entrepreneurs offer tips for increasing profits with value-added and new products
• Bumping Smut from the World Trade Scene
• Another Settlement Method for Marketing Assistance Loans
• Wheat Breeders go to Asian Bakers and Millers for Info
• Transferring Your Farm or Ranch to the Next Generation: Publication May Help
• New Safflower Oils & Facility Owners may Lead to Opportunities for E. Montana
• Montana Railroad Rates Called a "Stark View" of Potential Canadian Deregulation 
• Running an Extra Business with Your Ranch or Farm (with tips, resources) 
• Developing a Farm/Ranch Recreation Business Workshops Receive National Award 
• Conservation Easements Help Ranchers Improve Habitat, Hunter Relations 
• Publication Shows Economic Advantages of Conservation Easements 
• Managing Cash and Futures Contracts 
• Beef Producers: Learn to Increase Profits with MSU Extension Beef Book 
• MSU Videos Deal with Improving Wool Quality/Marketability 
• Link to Extension Economics Web Page

Insect and Weed Control, Disease, Integrated Pest Management

• Diseases
• Reduce Root Diseases Using Plant Residue
• Researchers Crank-Up "Good Guy" Bacilli to Beat Cercospora
• Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus Topic of Extension Publication 
• Bio-Corridors Could Help Grain Producers Minimize Pests and Disease 
• Insects
• The year of the worm
• Teen tracker counts cutworms for MSU-Bozeman
• Montana hopper forecast a "mixed bag"
• Record Cutworm Moth Numbers is Not Good News for 2001 Season
• Early Entomologists Instrumental in Fight Against Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• Using Scents to Derail the...Wheat Stem Sawfly
• Finding a Home on the Range for Flea Beetles
• "Pete" Takes a Bite Out of Knapweed (Up to 70% Less in Parts of Two Research Sites)
• Sheep Chomp and Stomp Sawfly
• Store Grain? Silent "Partners" Can Eat the Profits
• Automated Grain Cooling: Cost Effective to Minimize Insects and Getting Moreso
• Elephantine MSU IPM Project Begins Near Havre (1999)
• How to Decide Whether It's Economical to Treat Cutworms and Aphids
• When a Mormon Cricket gets a "Cold," Researchers Need to Know What it Does
• Researcher Cited in National Geographic Article: Beetles are Indicator Species for Ecological Health 
• Wheat Stem Sawfly: Montana's Multi-Million Dollar Pest (with 1995 Montana county losses) 
• Florida Psocids vs. Minnesota Bruins:Pest Management at Museum of the Rockies
• Grazing Offers Hope of Reducing Grasshoppers 
• Pesticides
• Register Now for Noxious Weed Management Certification
• Terrorism prompts review of pesticide and equipment security
• Compare Pest Control Info: Join "Electronic Coffee Shop" Chat Group
• Beware of Pesticide Claims That Are Too Good to be True
• Keeping Pesticide Use Records Required; Record Reminders Available
• Watch for Plantback Restrictions on Commonly Used Herbicides
• Weeds
• Weed Management Handbook Available
• Licking houndstongue
• Noxious Weed Alert: New Yellow Starthistle Reports
• Weed program offered for land buyers, sellers and realtors
• Pulling Together for Fish and Flora
• Weed management under drought conditions
• Managing weeds after wildfire
• Act Now to Prevent Weed Invasion
• Four-fold Weed Increase Possible After Fire
• Water-Hungry Saltcedar: One of "10 Worst" Noxious Weeds in U.S.
• Lessons from Noxious Weeds: Diversity is Difficult to Invade
• "Pete" Takes a Bite Out of Public Enemy Number One (70% Knapweed Reduction at Two Research Sites)
• Herbicide Resistance in Montana, Where It's At, What to Do
• Finally, a Way to Revegetate Knapweed-Infested Land
• How to Make Biocontrol Work Against Leafy Spurge
• Preplant Weed Control: First Key to Successful Management
• Be a Winter Weed Warrior
• St. Johnswort: Ill as well as ?Cure
• Pre-Plant Control is the First of Many Keys to Weed Control
• "Make it Count" on Kochia; Herbicide Resistance Threatens
• Herbicide Resistant Weeds
• You Need a Good Combination Punch for the War on Weeds 
• Severe Winters Can Lead to Increased Noxious Weed Spread 
• Teton River Weed Project Links Nature Conservancy, Local Landowners 
• Spotted Knapweed Project Southwest of Butte "One of the Best" 
• Mapping Weeds and Resources: A Standardized System 
• Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Streamside are Sites of Weed Control Projects 
• Have a Weed Problem? Form a Cooperative Like Dawson County Did 
• Publication Explains Noxious Weed Law 
• Weed control: More profit by the Patch 

Livestock

• Sheep
• Education programs set for sheep producers right before Miles City Ram Sale
• Producers should apply for lamb payments
• Cattle
• Prussic acid in sorghum hay or pastures can threaten livestock
• Predicting Cow/Calf Efficiency in Montana
• Targeting T-cells for Animal Health
• Taking Cattle Production to the Next Level
• Drought Strategies for Beef Producers 
• Part I: Range and Water Management
• Part II:  Supplementing Cattle on Drought-Affected Pastures and Ranges
• Designer Barley: Malt Barley is not the best feed barley anymore
• U.S. Beef and Cattle Imports and Exports Impact on Cattle Prices
• Until Cattle Wear Signs, or . . . Producing Meat not Cattle
• Researchers Tune in Cow Radios
• Montana Beef More Tender than Most; Producers Urged to Select for Tenderness
• Beef Producers: Learn to Increase Profits with Extension Beef Book 
• What's Important When Developing the Replacement Heifer?
• Researcher clarifies findings from "Cows Act Like Pigs About Supplements"
• Change in Cattle Breeding Could Net Extra $75 per Head: News story or Full How-To
• Some Feed Supplements Reduce Forage Intake and Digestibility
• When is Water good Enough for Livestock?
• "Determining Stocking Rates" Publication Available 
• Supplement Timing May Let Cattle Producers Get More Meat for Less 
• Feed Lower Quality CRP Hay in Early Winter 
• MSU Leading Vaccine Development from Trial and Error to Prediction
• Cattle Producers Should Monitor Supplement Intake
• Horses
• Hunting Makes Horses Hungry

GPS - Site Specific Management

• Montana grain growers harness the power of NASA through MSU TechLink
• A Site-Specific Farming Primer
• Producer Says GPS Helped Get Greater Yields with Less Fertilizer
• Key Montana Producers and Scientists take Next Steps in Precision Ag
• Mapping Weeds and Resources: A New Standardized System 
• Increase Montana Wheat Profits Using Global Positioning System (GPS) News story or research report 
• Research Validates Easier Soil Mapping and New Way to Increase Wheat Protein Profit
• MSU Global Positioning System (GPS) Capacity has Increased 
• Go to MSU's Places Project
• Northern Ag Research Center's Site-Specific Management Web Site
• Research Shows Need for Site-Specific Grazing Guidelines News story or research report 

Soil Fertility, Tillage

• Four Good Reasons to Leave that Stubble
• What Does Fire Do To Your Soil?
• Organic Farming Regulations and Contacts in Montana
• Residue Comes in Many Packages and Amounts
• Cereal Crop Residues and Plant Nutrients
• Herbicide Carry-Over Impacts Crop Rotation Options 
• Managing to Avoid Disease After Hail 
• What's Known About Plant Capacity to Control the "Neighborhood"?
• Your Favorite Plant "icities" and "pathies" Explained
• Fall is a Good Time to Plant Filter Strips to Reduce Erosion
• Problems and Promise in a Creative Cropping System
• Incorporating Sweetclover Into the Traditional Wheat-Fallow Rotation
• Adding Manure: What are the Benefits?
• Calculating the Amount of Seed to Plant
• The Benefits of Crop Rotations
• When is Organic Matter Built Up or Used Up?
• "Mine" for Fertilizer to Control Costs
• Salt Problems Common in Montana Soils
• "I Irrigate. Convince Me to Try No-Till."
• Soil "Physicals" Give Early Warning of Problems
• Minimize your Gamble When Applying Urea
• Green Manure Crop Alternatives to Fallow
• Soil-testing for Phosphorus can Increase Crop Yield 
• How to Avoid Fertilizer Loss and Pollution 
• Narrow Row Spacing Leads to Higher Grain Yields

Crops, Seed

• Alfalfa 
• Fall is the time to test your hay
• Winter Cereal Forages Could Help Reduce Drought Impacts
• Choosing Alfalfa Varieties for Montana's 2001 Crop Year
• How to Make Irrigated Alfalfa "Pay" in it's First Year
• Interseeding Grasses into Legumes like Alfalfa
• Alfalfa Seed Production: Not Easy Except by Accident
• Late Season Weed Control in Established Alfalfa
• Irrigated Alfalfa-"Fill the Tank" in Early August
• What To Do If You Have Winter Damaged Alfalfa
• New Alfalfa can Yield Like an Established Stand by Time of Second Cutting
• Alfalfa Establishment, Management and Production
• Getting Ready for Alfalfa Season
• Will Nitrogen Fertilization in Spring Help Alfalfa Stands?
• Success in Banding Phosphorus in Alfalfa Depends on Equipment
• Do You Need to Grow More Hay? 
• Alternative Crops
• After 2001, chickpea production is a whole new game
• Montana Growers Start Clean and Stay Clean
• Hemp: Many possibilities as an alternative crop
• Chickpea in 200l: Big Money, Big Wreck Potential
• Testing Pea and Bean Seed for Fungus Strongly Advised
• Agronomics of Japanese Millet
• Hemp: Production Not Legal in U.S. but Potential Being Studied
• Herb Crops Grow in Montana, But Can Farmers Connect With Markets?
• Avoid Being a One-Time Pulse Crop Grower
• Growing Echinacea is Hot Topic
• Cropping Strategies and Options besides Wheat/Fallow
• Using Annual Dryland Legumes as Cash Crops
• Pulse Crops That Do Well in Montana
• What are Pulse Crops?
• Green Manure and Crop Alternatives to Fallow
• What are the Water Needs of Pulse Crops in Arid Region Rotations?
• MSU Researcher Looks for Secret of Growing Montana Huckleberries 
• Safflower Well-Adapted as Forage for Montana and Dakotas
• Fertlizer and Nutrient Management
• What do Fungi and Bacteria Do in the Soil?
• "Mine" for Fertilizer to Control Costs
• Minimize your Gamble When Applying Urea
• Same tillage method year after year can cause soil problems 
• Varieties
• Designer Barley: Malt Barley is not the best feed barley anymore
• Seed Cleaners May Seek Variety Use Assurance from Growers
• Research Report: Barley Genotypes Vary in Ability to Resume Water Uptake After Drought. posted from Fall 1995 Montana AgResearch 
• Wheat & Barley
• Clearfield wheat: New weed management tool for Montana wheat growers
• A Practical Ballet of Bread Baking
• Montana Wheats Ranked Best by Buyers
• Boosting Wheat Water Use Efficiency with Nitrogen
• Small Step Pays Dividends: Decrease Wheat's Competition with Itself
• Bumping Smut from the World Wheat Trading Scene
• Malt Barley is Not the Best Feed Barley Anymore
• New Wheat Variety Licensed to Montana Company
• The Age of Wheat Breeding Partnerships is on the Horizon
• Market is Growing for Hard White Wheats
• More Spring Wheat Protein, Less Cost, More Efficiency
• First Year's Data (1997) Shows Mixed Responses to Growth Regulators on Wheat
• Top Dressing Nitrogen for Winter Wheat Yield
• Research Validates Easier Soil Mapping and Way to Increase Wheat Protein Profit
• MSU Research Changes Fundamental View of Wheat
• Some Growers Escape Nightmare of Sawfly-Thrashed Wheat Using New Varieties
• What is a Pound of Nitrogen Worth in Spring Wheat Protein? 
• What Type of Fertilizer Placement Gets the Best Results for Wheat? 
• Winter wheat thrives after some winter-killed 
• New Winter Wheat Varieties are Sawfly Resistant 
• Research Results Available on the Web Showing Profitability of Using Global Positioning System (GPS) for Wheat Production News story or full research report 
• Potash Fertilizer Could Add Profits to Spring Wheat Production 

Water and Irrigation 

• Risks and Benefits of Fall Irrigating
• Irrigating with limited water supplies
• MSU Team Assesses Pros and Cons of Methane Production
• How Much Irrigation Water Do You Lose When It's Windy?
• Fairfield Bench Groundwater Pesticides Prompt Survey
• Using Wetlands on the Farm
• When Necessary, You can use "Just-in-Time" Irrigating 
• Drought Management Guides
• Minimizing Salty Water's  Impact When Irrigating
• What to Test Drinking Water  for and Montana-Approved Labs to Test Them
• Montana Water Quality Designations Need Re-Checking, Says Researcher
• Research Report: Nitrate in Soil and Groundwater Under Irrigated Crops posted from Fall 1995 Montana AgResearch 
• Montana's Water Quality: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful 

Publications

• Aids to outguessing the weather
• Will your veggies measure up at the fair?
• List of all MSU Ag and Extension Publications, not only those on web.)
• How to Order MSU Ag and Extens http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/com_serv/$order.html ion Publications
• News Stories About Selected Pubs (not necessarily those at full-text link above.
• Pay Less Montana Income Tax by Establishing a Medical Savings Account
• Read about or order the MSU Exension Publications Catalog
• "Determining Stocking Rates" Publication Available
• Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus Topic of Extension Publication 
• Publication Explains Noxious Weed Law 
• Transferring Your Farm or Ranch to the Next Generation: Publication May Help
• Publication Shows Economic Advantages of Conservation Easements

Forages, Range

• Grazing lands grants available
• Prussic acid in sorghum hay or pastures can threaten livestock
• Grazing management during and after drought
• Grants Will Support Nine Montana Grazing Conservation Proposals
• The "Out of Whack Index" Provides Insight into Fires
• Don't Start Forage Plantings on the "Wrong Foot" (Lessons for Wheat Growers, Too
• Sorghum and Sudangrass as Montana Forage
• Improving Block Management: Adding Quality to a Quantity Program
• Make Wildlife Work for Your Ranch
• Ranchers, Environmental Groups, Land Agencies All Support New Range Program
• Useful Tips on Wheat, Forages and Canola
• Forages for Wet Flooded Sites
• Thinking Ahead: Forage Plantings for this Year
• Safflower Works Well Throughout Montana as Forage
• Study: Site-Specific Grazing Guidelines Needed News story or research report 
• "Determining Stocking Rates" Publication Available 
• Montana Hunters and Ranchers Agree on Problem Areas
• Forage Testing Necessary to use Supplements Economically 
• Some Feed Supplements Reduce Forage Intake and Digestibility

About Montana Agriculture

Other Web Sites You may be Interested in at MSU-Bozeman

• News Stories about MSU Students
• College of Agriculture & Montana Agricultural Experiment Station 
• MSU Extension Service County and State Specialists Addresses, Phone Numbers
• Animal and Range Sciences 
• Animal and Range Extension
• Agricultural Extension Economics 
• Entomology
• Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
• Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology
• Agricultural publications on the web

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