2013 Spring Seed Guide $1.50
The Spring Seed Guide 2013 features results from the 2012 UNL variety trials for corn, soybean, sorghum, sunflower, and alfalfa. It includes information on the trials conducted at each location and local site details, including cultural practices used; soil type; planting and harvest dates; average yield, cooperators, and site. A section by the Nebraska Crop Improvement Association includes plant descriptions and dealers for certified oats, spring wheat, spring barley, field peas, millet, turfgrasses, perennial forage grasses, and hybrid seed corn. It also lists approved seed conditioners and custom certified conditioners.
http://marketplace.unl.edu/extension/extpubs/ec101.html
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Sugarbeet Nutrient Management $1.00
Soil testing and fertilizer management is essential for improving the yield and quality of sugarbeets. In this four-page color publication, producers will learn how obtain soil samples and calculate needs for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, and zinc.
http://marketplace.unl.edu/extension/g1459.html
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Community Lesson – How Our Shopping Habits Help Predict the Future of Our Community $1.00
When you shop with local merchants, you’re helping to create jobs, fund services and promote community development in your town, where it makes a difference to your family and neighbors. Through exercises described in How Our Shopping Habits Help Predict the Future of Our Community, you’ll be able to evaluate the impact your shopping habits have on your community. Is it more expensive to shop in larger stores? Will selection be better? You may be surprised!
How Our Shopping Habits Help Predict the Future of Our Community – Participant Guide is a 4-page, 8 1Ž2 x 11 publication with one handout. It is great for individuals, or can be used by groups. (Group leaders also may be interested in the 2-page companion lesson plan: How Our Shopping Habits Help Predict the Future of Our Community – Leader Guide.)
This community lesson is FREE to extension educators only. Please use the coupon code "shopforfree" to receive this lesson at no cost.
http://marketplace.unl.edu/extension/extpubs/families/hef016.html
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Creating Balance with Food and Fitness $15.00-$30.00 (purchase all for and receive 15% off.)
Created by a team of Extension Food and Nutrition Specialists, Educators, and Assistants, Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a four-part lesson explosion that provides food and nutrition educators with over 25 hours of programming for adult audiences.
Focused on the key messages of USDA’s Choose MyPlate and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this curriculum is designed to either stand alone as individual lessons or be used in sequence.
Each section is complete with a Leader and Participant Guide, Optional Activities, Handouts, Evaluation, and an accompanying PowerPoint®.
http://marketplace.unl.edu/extension/extpubs?cat=221
-- Michael Riese