2015 Crop Performance in Southeast Kansas

Flax Fiber: Potential for a New Crop in the Southeast

Summaries of Southeast Milk Check-off Projects Funded in 2015

Productive and high quality forages are critical to the success of dairy operations, but the combination of high yield and excellent quality has been difficult to find among warm-season perennial grasses adapted to the Gulf Coast region. Mulato II brachiariagrass and Jiggs bermudagrass have characteristics that make them attractive to dairy enterprises, but additional research station and on-fa...

Neuromuscular performance in a Kansas Mennonite community: age and sex effects in performance.

The effects of age and sex on six neuromuscular performance traits are studied in a cross-sectional sample of 559 members of the Goessel, Kansas Mennonite commu­ nity. Age and sex effects are assessed by stepwise polynomial regression which includes non-linear age terms up to the fourth power. Of the six traits studied only one, Hand Steadiness, fails to show a significant sex difference and on...

Operational seasonal forecasting of crop performance.

Integrated, interdisciplinary crop performance forecasting systems, linked with appropriate decision and discussion support tools, could substantially improve operational decision making in agricultural management. Recent developments in connecting numerical weather prediction models and general circulation models with quantitative crop growth models offer the potential for development of integ...

High Resolution Population Distribution Maps for Southeast Asia in 2010 and 2015

Spatially accurate, contemporary data on human population distributions are vitally important to many applied and theoretical researchers. The Southeast Asia region has undergone rapid urbanization and population growth over the past decade, yet existing spatial population distribution datasets covering the region are based principally on population count data from censuses circa 2000, with oft...