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Irrigated warm- and cool-season grasses compared in Northern California pastures
California Agriculture, 1992 North American prairie grasses were most productive in a comparative study of irrigated warm-and cool-season grasses. The high yield and later peak in production of warm-season grasses make them ideal for increasing the productivity of ...
Melvin George +4 more
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Supplements evaluated for wintering range calves
California Agriculture, 1990 In two range feeding trials to evaluate supplemental nitrogen and/or bypass protein source and stocking densities, calves at a low density gained more weight than high-density groups.
John R. Dunbar +6 more
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Range Extension of Leptodactylus bufonius [PDF]
Copeia, 1957 Recently I reported the presence of the chacoan batrachian Leptodactylus bufonius in the clayey soils of Jarilla, Alto Pencoso and Balde in San Luis, central Argentina (1955, Copeia (4); 291). The possibility was considered that this frog shares the underground social burrows of the rodents of the Lagidium group (vizcacheras) also found analogously in ...
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Clipping chamise reduces brush fire hazard
California Agriculture, 1999 Wildfire is a particular concern where housing and business development encroaches on highly flammable brushlands. In these areas, it may be risky to use prescribed fire to control biomass and reduce the fuel for a fire.
Theodore E. Adams, Peter Sands
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Festuca ovina L. (sheep fescue), a perennial grass plant found in mountainous regions, is important from both an ecological and economic viewpoint.
Masoomeh Abbasi Khalaki +4 more
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Reducing fertilizer in sugarbeets can protect water quality
California Agriculture, 2001 The loss of nutrients from fertilizers can impair surface and ground waters. Environmentally sensitive crop management requires applying only enough fertilizer to ensure economic crop yields. We found that sugarbeets grown in soils rich
Stephen R. Kalfka +2 more
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Dynamic range extension of hybridization sensors [PDF]
Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2015 In hybridization based nucleic acid sensors the stringency of hybridization poses a challenge to design and experiment. For a given set of experimental parameters the affinity window of probe-target interaction is always limited and vice versa for a given probe set design, changes in experimental conditions can easily bring some measurements out of ...
Hadiwikarta, Wahyu Wijaya +2 more
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Image processing extracts more information from color infrared aerial photos
California Agriculture, 1996 Color infrared aerial photos can be scanned into a computer file and then analyzed using image-processing software. This relatively new technology is illustrated using examples from two long-term research projects at UC Davis.
R. Ford Denison +4 more
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Does feeding area restriction inhibit social learning of toxic weed ingestion in cattle?
Animal, 2010 Social learning from peers can trigger herd-wide intoxication with white locoweed (Oxytropis sericea), an alkaloid-synthesizing herbaceous legume that grows on rangelands of western North America.
K.T. Jackson +4 more
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Analysis of poultry farmers’ information needs in Adamawa State, Nigeria
Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2022 Information is a critical factor in the farming business as the survival of the participants relies on their ability to access innovations and meet the dynamic challenges of the sector.
Michael Amurtiya +3 more
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