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Missouri’s Third Class County Budget Trend Analysis

Revised

Use this workbook to analyze fiscal trends in Missouri counties as well as carry out studies on budget, fiscal trends, and performance to identify needed actions. Compare past performance to set standards to gauge them alongside each other as well.

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FR36511 publication cover.

Fire Service Hydraulics and Water Supply, Third Edition Manual

New $80 to $93

This manual covers the basics of water and water flow, theoretical and practical methods of determining water flow and pressure loss, types of pumps and fire apparatus used to move water, relay pumping operations, fire pump testing, and effectively supplying sprinkler and standpipe systems. It also discusses recent research on updating friction loss coefficients for the modern fire hose.

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Growing Buckwheat for Grain or Cover Crop Use

New

Rob Myers
Adjunct Associate Professor
Division of Plant Sciences

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Growing Millets for Grain, Forage or Cover Crop Use

New

Rob Myers
Adjunct Associate Professor
Division of Plant Sciences

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Purchasing a Herd Boar for Commercial Swine Production

Reviewed

Ronald O. Bates
Department of Animal Sciences

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Tax Considerations for the Establishment of Agroforestry Practices

Reviewed

Learn tax advantages for planting trees for timber, using personal property for business use, investing in conservation and reporting timber sales as capital gains.

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Burcucumber seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 20

Reviewed

Cucurbitaceae (Gourd family): Cucurbits include cultivated plants, such as gourd, squash and cucumber.

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Herd Management for Disease Prevention

Reviewed

Roderick C. Tubbs
Swine veterinarian
Commercial Agriculture Program

Jeanette L. Floss
College of Veterinary Medicine

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Preserve It Fresh, Preserve It Safe: 2018, No. 6 (November/December)

New

Tips for stress-free holiday food-prep and gifting: Gift dry cake and bread mixes layered in jars. Label home canned food gifts for safety. Prepare and freeze foods for dinner ahead of time. Learn more in this University of Missouri Extension newsletter.

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Toothed spurge seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 23

Reviewed

Most of the plants from Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family) present in Missouri are spurges, which include about 20 different species.

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Heritability and Its Use in Animal Breeding

Reviewed

Heritability has a large influence on livestock performance. Visit our website to learn about Heritability and Its Use in Animal Breeding.

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Grassleaf rush seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 26

Reviewed

More than 20 species of Juncaceae (Rush family) occur in Missouri. Rushes are not true grasses or sedges. Determining individual species of rushes by plant characteristics is nearly impossible.

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Prickly sida seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 29

Reviewed

Several species of Malvaceae (Mallow family) are among the most common broadleaf weeds in Missouri. These include velvetleaf and prickly sida. Cotton is also a member of this family.

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Dust, Odor and Gas Control in Swine Finishing Barns Through Oil Sprinkling

New

Amy M. Schmidt
Extension Agricultural Engineer
Food Science and Engineering Unit
Commercial Agriculture Program

Albert J. Heber
Extension Agricultural Engineer
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department
Purdue University

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Common eveningprimrose seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 32

Reviewed

Primrose is a common member of Onagraceae (Evening primrose family) with approximately 14 different species present in Missouri.

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Cover art for publication WQ351

Composting Dead Swine

Reviewed

Teng Teeh Lim
Extension Agricultural Engineer, Food Systems and BioengineeringJoseph Zulovich

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Bracted plantain seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 35

Reviewed

Plantaginaceae (Plantain family), known collectively as plantains, has about 11 species in the state.

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Carpetweed seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 03

Reviewed

Aizoaceae is a small family of plants. Other than carpetweed, only two species of plants in this family are known to occur in relatively isolated locations in Missouri.

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Land Application Considerations for Animal Manure

Reviewed

Charles D. Fulhage
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering

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Common purslane seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 38

Reviewed

Of 20 genera known within Portulacaceae (Purslane famiy), there are only three present in the state. Purslane is the most common among them.

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Laceflower seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 06

Reviewed

Apiaceae (Carron family), also known as the parsley family, is a large family that includes several herbal plants, such as caraway, dill and fennel. It also contains several toxic plants, such as poison hemlock and water hemlock.

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Sulfur cinquefoil seeds.

Missouri Weed Seeds, Page 41

Reviewed

Many of the members of Rosaceae (Rose family) are commonly grown as cultivated plants, including rose, apple, pear and strawberry. A notorious member, multiflora rose, is one of the state’s noxious weeds.

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Swine Care, Selection and Showmanship

Reviewed

Patrick Kircher
Regional Livestock Specialist
West Central Region

Marcia S. Carlson
Department of Animal Sciences

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Phosphorus Best Management Practices for Biosolids and Other Organic Residuals

Reviewed

John A. Lory
Division of Plant Sciences
Commercial Agriculture Program

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Cover art for publication WQ213

Calibrating Manure Spreaders

Reviewed

Charles D. Fulhage
Department of Agricultural Engineering

Land application is the primary means of using livestock wastes in Missouri. Properly spreading manure on cropland is an environmentally acceptable means of managing wastes and, at the same time, realizing a benefit from the manure's fertilizer value.

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