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3.00 Credits
1 ( HORT, NRES 435/835) (3 cr II) Lec 3. Prereq: For AGRO/HORT/NRES 435: Senior standing or permission. For AGRO/HORT/NRES 835: 12 hrs biological or agricultural sciences or permission. Team projects for developing communication skills and leadership skills. Integration of principles of ecology, plant and animal sciences, crop protection, and rural landscape planning and management for sustainable agriculture. Includes natural and cultivated ecosystems, population and community ecology, nutrient cycling, pest management, hydrologic cycles, cropping and grazing systems, landscape ecology, biodiversity, and socioeconomic evaluation of systems.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr III) Fld. Prereq: Senior standing. Cost of travel required. Summer travel course with multi-state faculty. Farm visits to Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska. Analysis of production, economics, environmental impacts, and social integration aspects of farms and farming systems.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Lec 3. Prereq: CHEM 105 or 109, and one of the following: AGRO 204 or ASCI 250 or FDST 203. Identification and comparison of grain quality characteristics desired by livestock feeders, human food processors and industrial users, and methods used to measure these characteristics.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Lec. Prereq: CHEM 109 and one of the following: AGRO 204 or ASCI 250 or FDST 203. AGRO 315 and 437/837 recommended. Genetic development, production practices, and grain handling and storage procedures to deliver quality grain to livestock feeders, human food processors and industrial uses.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr II) Lec 3. Prereq: Junior standing. BIOS 101 and 101L, or equivalent, recommended. Characteristics of Great Plains ecosystems, interrelationships of ecological factors and processes, and their application in the management of grasslands. Interactions of fire, vegetation, grazing animals and wildlife are emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
(HORT 441/841, RNGE 441) (3 cr II) Lec 3. Prereq: AGRO 325 or equivalent. Principles of crop physiology and developmental morphology in relation to function, growth, development, and survival of perennial forage, range, and turf plants. Relationship of physiology and morphological development on plant use and management.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr I) Lec 2, lab 4. Prereq: Junior standing. BIOS 101 and 101L, or equivalent, recommended. Wildland plants that are important to grassland and shrubland ecosystem management and production. Distribution, utilization, classification, identification (including identification by vegetative parts), uses by Native Americans, and recognition of grasses, forbs, shrubs, exotic and wetland plants.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr I) Lec 2, lab 4. Prereq: Junior standing. BIOS 101 and 101L, or equivalent, recommended. Criteria by which grassland are analyzed. Vegetation sampling techniques, measurement and evaluation of grasslands, and measurement of important environmental factors. Evaluations of habitat improvement practices, wildlife value, recreational value, and watershed value.
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3.00 Credits
1 ( ASCI 451/851, RNGE 445) (3 cr I) Lec 2. Prereq: ASCI 250 and AGRO 240 or 340; AECN 201 recommended. All students required to participate in a one-week field trip in central or western Nebraska prior to beginning of fall semester. Therefore, students must notify instructor at time of early registration. (Dates are given in the Schedule of Classes.) Analyzing the plant and animal resources and economic aspects of pasturage. Management of pasture and range for continued high production emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr II) Prereq: METR 200 or 351 or equivalent, or permission. Offered spring semester of even-numbered calendar years. For course description, see NRES 452/852.
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