Helping Young Children Behave
Even though your young child can do more things for himself, he needs you now as much as ever. Your young child needs you to firmly set limits for his behavior. He needs your guidance to learn how to get along in the world. Setting limits and ... [... more]
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Tips for Applicants to Temporary Guest Worker Programs
In recent years, labor contractors in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and horticulture have turned to a set of federal labor and immigration programs for bringing in temporary workers from outside the United States for jobs in farming, ... [... more]
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Controlling Quality of Farm Mixed Swine Feed
Feed costs can make up 70 percent or more of the operating costs of a farrow-to-finish swine unit. To make the most of feed dollars, feed must supply the nutrients required. Unfortunately, 50 percent of the feed may have nutritional problems that ... [... more]
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Nutritional Suggestions
Producers who purchase young cattle for backgrounding through the winter should know that purchased cattle can be more prone to health problems if not properly handled than cattle calved and weaned on the farm. Purchased stocker cattle often ... [... more]
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New Ways to Meet CAFO Continuing Education Requirements
This publications tells Alabama livestock farmers how to obtain continuing education under ADEM AFO/CAFO rules. In addition to group meetings, on-farm visits from ACES, ADAI, or ADEM may qualify, as well as continuing education training at ... [... more]
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The Need for Site Preparation
More than 6 million acres of Alabama forestland are growing low-value, poor-quality hardwoods when they could be growing valuable pine timber. Why? Because the valuable pines were harvested, the poor-quality hardwoods were left, and the task of ... [... more]
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Getting on the Path to Careers
Young people are faced with many choices that will affect their lives after high school. This publication includes activities to help you understand yourself and your career interests as well as suggestions for what to do during each school year. ... [... more]
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Foal Management During the Preweaning Period
During the preweaning, or suckling, phase of the foal's life, the foal is growing rapidly. It is not uncommon for a suckling foal to gain 2.5 to 3 pounds daily under good management conditions. Also throughout this period, the foal increases its ... [... more]
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Basics of Bonds
Bonds offer investors a range of opportunities, from earning stable but low returns to earning large returns by speculating on interest rate movements. A bond can be described as a long-term debt instrument; that is, it is a contract or IOU ... [... more]
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HANDBOOK FOR 4-H CLUB OFFICERS
This 24-page handbook provides a guide to help 4-H club officers accurately record a club's activities and work for a year. [... more]
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CANNING SNAP BEANS
This easy-to-read, illustrated publication tells you how to can snap beans and other vegetables. Step-by-step instructions show you how to prepare the canning jars, prepare and process the beans, and store the jars. A chart shows you how to ... [... more]
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How Much Is Your Land Worth Now?
Due to a lack of rain during the growing seasons and a reduction in both price and number of pounds of quota in recent years, many peanut and cotton farmers across the state (especially in southeast Alabama) have been forced to look for areas in ... [... more]
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