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chapter alumni chapter members & parents school board & administrators chapters within your region regional reporter state FFA officer team chapter sponsors & supporters businesses of your community vocational director area representative mayor state media relations team SEND NEWSLETTERS TO
Chapter Members Parents Alumni Sponsors Supporters School Board Administrators Region Other chapters Reporter State Officer team Media relations team Other Community businesses Vocational director Representatives Mayor Newsletters to:
Audience • Primary Audience • Parents of elementary and middle school children • Secondary Audience • teachers and school systems • Tertiary Audience • MUCC clubs
Audiences • Primary • Parents - elementary and middle school • Secondary • Teachers and school systems • Tertiary • Clubs - Michigan United Conservation
Schedule • December -Initial Drafts/Editing -Second Drafts/Editing -Final drafts • January -PSA -Web -Magazine Ad.
Schedule • December • Drafts • Edits • January • Public Service Announcement (PSA) • Web • Magazine Advertisement
Compost quality as measured by: Nutrient Content • Soil analysis • Compost analysis • For material to be used as a growth medium • For material to be used as a nutrient source or soil amendment • Fertilizer analysis
Compost Quality • Nutrient Content Analysis • Soil • Compost material • Growth medium • Nutrient source or soil amendment • Fertilizer
Growth Media Quality Test • Table 1 (handout) • Compost 1 • Compost 2
Limousin Breeder Directions • Produce and market females who have the potential of reaching puberty at a year of age. • Expose heifers as yearlings and calve them for the first time as 2-year-olds. • Along with other selection criteria, cull females on the basis of pregnancy status following a fixed breeding season. • Conduct research concerning the relationships between scrotal circumference and other measures of fertility, calving ease, growth and composition traits within the breed.
Limousin Breeder Directions • Females that potentially reached puberty by 1-year-olds • Yearlings exposed and first calved as 2-year-olds • Females culled based on pregnancy status after a fixed breeding season plus other criteria
Research Relationships • Scrotal circumference and other fertility measures • Calving ease • Growth • Breed composition traits
Parameter estimates Mean year, age of dam & percent Limousin
Estimates • Table 1: Parameter • Mean year • Age of dam • Percent Limousin • Statistical significance
AGRICULTURE and HORTICULTURE WOLCOTT OBJECTIVE: Research, demonstration and teaching of innovative cultural practices to farm and non-farm public, agencies and organizations • Improved or new varieties or species of field and horticultural crops • Sustainable production practices • Integrated Pest Management Tools
Agriculture and Horticulture Wolcott Objective: Research, demonstrate and teach innovative cultural practices to farm and non-farm public, agencies and organizations including: • New or improved field and horticultural crop varieties • Sustainable production practices • Integrated pest management tools HCMA / MSUE
Position Responsibilities • Help to facilitate research and demonstration projects • Help to plan, implement and promote school farm and garden programs • Facilitate 4H activities overall... • Assist in development of educational materials • Coordinate and train Extension volunteers • Promote farm to school and other youth groups
Responsibilities • Facilitate research and demonstration projects • Plan, implement and promote school farm and garden programs • Facilitate 4-H activities • Assist in educational material development • Coordinate and train Extension volunteers • Promote farm to school and other youth groups HCMA / MSUE
Responsibilities • Projects - research and demonstration • Programs - school farm and garden • Activities - 4-H • Materials - educational development • Trainings - Extension volunteers • Promotions - Farm to school & other youth groups HCMA / MSUE
Major Findings • After about one year of the ABSP funding, DNAP consolidated its operations, the New Jersey facility was closed and the company was moved to Oakland, California • Organizational and personnel changes within DNAP • Budget cuts in March 1994 caused a cut in programs
DNAP Major Findings • Consolidation occurred after one year of ABSP funding • Closed - New Jersey • Moved headquarters - Oakland, California • Organization and personnel changed • Budget cuts caused programs cut March 1994
ACR/DNAP Collaboration • Reliable embryogenesis-based regeneration method for banana is not yet achieved. • The coffee work was dropped after organizational changes in DNAP. • Zygotic embryo propagation method was perceived not feasible because of cross-pollination in peach palm.
ACR/DNAP Collaboration • Banana embryogenesis-based regeneration method unachieved • Coffee work dropped • Peach palm zygotic embryo propagation method not feasible as perceived