Horticulture Revised Raised Bed Gardening Manual Now Online by Steve Upson
The Noble Foundation's popular Permanent Raised Bed Gardening publication, first published in 1997, has undergone an extensive revision and is now accessible on the Noble Foundation Web site.
Livestock Graduate Student Program at the Noble Foundation by Evan Whitley
and Dan Childs
Graduate students are able to closely interact with both Noble Foundation personnel and producers working with our consultation teams. Their research is dedicated to addressing production, economic or quality-of-life issues that are vital to our mission.
Pasture and Range Forage Testing Provides Useful Information by Hugh Aljoe
Much of the hay baled this spring was either mature when hayed or may have been rained on during the haying process. Therefore, testing the quality of your hay becomes extremely important. Some hays will require little, if any, supplement, and other hays will require substantial supplementation to meet the nutritional requirements of the livestock being fed.
Research
Prescribed Burning - What Is the Cost? by Ken Gee
and Jon Biermacher
We often recommend prescribed burning as a method to manage native rangeland and wildlife habitat - and, indeed, many of us believe that fire should be considered an integral component to most rangeland management systems. With all of the touted benefits of prescribed burning, however, we often do not associate costs with the use of fire.
Switchgrass Establishment Requires Patience by John Guretzky
Slow seedling establishment has previously limited adoption of switchgrass in forage production. Presently, scientists in the Noble Foundation's Agricultural and Forage Improvement divisions are researching ways to improve switchgrass establishment.
Soils Did You Calibrate Your Sprayer This Year? by James Locke
There are many good methods for calibration, but they all have the same purpose - to determine the volume or gallons per acre a sprayer is applying. Without knowing the volume applied, we cannot know how much chemical to add to the tank to control the target weed or insect and stay within legal rate limits.
