1985 Annual Report
I: AGRONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS
Thomas J. Conlon
- Introduction
- Experimental Procedure and Growing Conditions
- Hard Spring Wheat Variety Trials
- Durum Variety Trials
- Hard Spring Wheat Variety Trial, Late Seeding
- Durum Variety Trial, Late Seeding
- Barley Variety Trial and Long Term Averages
- Oat Variety Trials and Long Term Averages
- Hard Red Winter Wheat and Long Term Averages
- Winter Rye Variety Trials and Long Term Averages
- Corn Hybrid Trials
- Buckwheat Variety Trial
- Cooperative Small Grain Nurseries
- Minimum Tillage on Recrop
- Fallow, Recrop, and Continuous Cropping
- Cropping Systems Research
- Avenge Injury Screening
- Response of Small Grains to Caroline Dakota Seed Coating
- Climatology of Soil Water
II. LIVESTOCK INVESTIGATIONS
James L. Nelson and Douglas G. Landblom
- Weaning Management Study
- System for Feeding Early Weaned Beef Calves
- An Evaluation of Immune Response in Weanling Age Beef Calves Given Booster Vaccinations at Selected Intervals
- Medicated Salt-Mineral Mixtures for Cow-Calf Pairs Grazing Native Range Pastures
- Cow-Calf Performance on Improved and Native Grass Pastures Following Worming
- Effects of Worming and Implanting Compared Among Backgrounded Steer Calves
- Feedlot Breed Comparison of First Generation Steers
- Winter Growth and Breed Production Comparison of First Generation Heifers
- Vaccination of Pregnant Heifers with an E. Coli Bacterin Vicogen to Reduce the Incidence and Severity of Calf Scours
- The Castration of Bull Calves with Chem-CastR
- EstrumateR, LutalyseR, and Synchromate-BR Compared for Synchronizing Heat Cycles in Beef Heifers
- A Comparison of Heat Synchronization Methods in Mature Cows
III.RANGE AND PASTURE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
- Interseeding Native Pastures L.L. Manske and Phillip J. Sjursen
- Pasture Management for Western North Dakota L.L. Manske, T.J. Conlon and J.L. Nelson
- Rangeland Reseeding and Natural Plant Community Manipulation to Improve Production Efficiency L.L. Manske and H. Goetz
- Interseeding Native Mixed Grass Prairie L.L. Manske
- Use of Plant Growth Regulators on Grass Pastures L.L. Manske
- Short Duration Grazing in the Mixed Grass Prairie of North Dakota D.R. Kirby, W.T. Baker, T. Conlon, P. Nyren and D.O. Erickson
IV. MISCELLANEOUS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH