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Reducing School Violence with Anti-Bullying Programs
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2008-08)
Youth violence is currently viewed as one of the most serious public health problems in the United States. What is of even more concern among parents and educators is a more common and pervasive form of violence- bullying. ...
Early Childhood Brain Development
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2008)
We know that children need proper nutrition, safe homes, access to health care, and good parenting in order to thrive. With recent technological advances, we are also beginning to understand more about how a child's brain ...
Proceedings of the Justin R. Morris Vineyard Mechanization Symposium (2008)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
Grape growers are increasingly interested in reducing the cost and amount of labor necessary for grape production. Availability of labor is also a major concern for growers in many grape production regions. Mechanized ...
Early Childhood Education: Improving Children's Early Experiences
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2008)
Parents face many problems when choosing early childhood programs, including both the lack of available high quality care and the high cost of care. In a large national study, six out of seven programs evaluated were rated ...
The Earned Income Tax Credit: Lifting Working Families Out of Poverty
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2008)
22% of Missouri's young children live under the poverty level. Research shows that a child's development is affected negatively by circumstances of poverty. Children raised in poverty are more likely to have poorer physical ...
School Readiness: Implications for Policy
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2008-05)
To prepare children for success in school, policies must provide support for all the contexts that influence child development starting from birth, and must seek to optimize children's functioning across all domains of ...
The way it was
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2008)
Discover new public art
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2008)
An uncivil war
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2008)
Insuring Quality Long-Term Nursing Care
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2008-04)
The oldest members of the Baby Boom generation born between 1946 and 1964 will turn sixty-five in 2011. As the size of our senior population increases over the next few decades, so will their health care needs. In the early ...
Sulfur and boron fertilization on cotton (2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
This publication contains information about sulfur and boron fertilization on cotton.
Corn Diseases (2008)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
Corn diseases cause costly crop losses every year in Missouri through problems with germination and establishment of a stand and through damaging effects on the quality and size of the harvest. With more than 50 color ...
Protecting cotton seedlings from blowing sand with winter cover crops (2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
Windy days in late May can be a serious problem for Delta cotton farmers in southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas. Young cotton plants are most vulnerable to injury from blowing sand at this time. This publication will ...
2009 Missouri Pest Management Guide : corn, grain sorghum, soybean, winter wheat (2008)
(University of Missouri. Extension Division, 2008)
This publication provides current recommendations for control of the most problematic weeds, insects and diseases encountered in Missouri corn, grain sorghum, soybean and winter wheat cropping systems. This information is ...
Management of Glyphosate-Resistant Waterhemp in Corn and Soybean (2008)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
Waterhemp, Amaranthus rudis, is a summer annual weed in the pigweed family that is found throughout the Midwest. Waterhemp seedlings have oar-shaped or oval cotyledons (seed leaves) and are hairless unlike redroot or smooth ...
Managing midseason nitrogen on rice with plant area measurements (2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
This guide describes two ways of using plant area measurements to determine where nitrogen should be aerially applied at midseason.
Avian influenza biosecurity for small flock owners (2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
Avian influenza (bird flu) is an infectious respiratory disease caused by a virus. It readily grows in most bird species, including those that are of commercial importance, such as chickens, turkeys and ducks. The major ...
Basics of bird flu: avian influenza
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
Avian influenza, or bird flu, is an infectious respiratory disease that affects a variety of birds. The various strains of virus that cause bird flu are generally categorized as high or low pathogenicity according to their ...
Flowering and Fruit Characteristics of Black Walnuts: A Tool for Identifying and Selecting Cultivars (2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2008)
Black walnuts (Juglans nigra L.) are valued for their uniquely fruity flavor and are often used as an ingredient in baked goods and ice cream or are eaten as a snack food. Although black walnuts can be harvested from wild ...
Growing Shiitake Mushrooms in an Agroforestry Practice (2008)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
Cultivating shiitake mushrooms represents an opportunity to utilize healthy low-grade and small-diameter trees thinned from woodlots as well as healthy branch-wood cut from the tops of harvested saw-timber trees. When the ...