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III. PRODUCTION

CHAPTER 9 LAND, SOILS and FERTILIZERS
LAND (1) — What is a Legal Description? (2) — Metes and Bounds (2) — Public land survey system (PLSS)
(3) — Principal Meridians and Base Lines (3) — California. (4) — Sixth Principal Meridian (4) — Townships
(5) — Range (5) — Section (5) — DETERMINING ACREAGE FROM DESCRIPTIONS (9) — USING THE
HAND CALCULATOR TO CALCULATE ACREAGE FROM A DESCRIPTION (10) — Using Surveying
Land measurements (10) — Area measurement (11) — Rectangular survey (11) — SLOPES (Grade) (13) —
SOILS (14) — Parent material: (14) — Climate: (14) — Topography: (14) — Biological factors: (14) —
Time: (14) — Soil, Water, and Texture (15) — Soil Textural Triangle (15) — Evaluating soil types using the
Textural Triangle (16) — Soils have Pore Space (17) — Which soil has maximum pore space and moisture
levels? (18) — SOILS HOLD MOISTURE (20) — Field Capacity (20) — Saturated soil. (20) — Permeability
(20) — PERCENTS IN SOIL MOISTURE (20) — Measuring water content (20) — How much water is
required? (21) — Field Capacity (23) — USABLE SOIL MOISTURE and UNAVAILABLE at Soil Moisture
Capacity (23) — Available Soil Moisture (24) — Calculating inches of water (25) — PLANT NUTRIENTS
and FERTILIZERS (26) — Soil Nutrient Content and Uptake for Crops (26) — FERTILIZER (29) —
Fertilizers have a cost (29) — Cost per pound for elements (30) — UPTAKE (31) — Practical application (32)
— Homework 9-1 (33) — Homework 9-2 (39) — Homework 9-3 (49)

CHAPTER 10 FIELD CROPS, TREES, HARVESTING, STORAGE & PACKING
Crop Production (1) — Pastures or cash crops (1) — Seeds and Seeding (1) — Seeding Rates, Germination
rates, and Costs (2) — Pastures (3) — Large Livestock (3) — Dairy Cow Forage (4) — Seed Purity at
Planting (5) — How To Determine Your Best Seed Buy (6) — Calculating the amount of seed needed for
planting (7) — Corn Production (7) — Corn Harvest Planning: Time, Yield, Value (9) — Harvesting Corn for
Ensilage (10) — Anticipated tonnage (10) — Calculate an estimated Silage Yield (11) — Determining Silage
Moisture and Dry Matter (12) — Dry matter content never changes (14) — Converting Wet Grain Weight to
Dry Grain Weight (15) — Storage for Grain (16) — Forages and pastures (17) — Seed Cost for planting
acreage Forages and Pastures (18) — Animal Units, Carrying Capacity and Stocking Rate (Animal Units) (19)
— Animal Unit Equivalents (20) — Animal Unit Month and Stocking Rate (20) — TREE CROPS (22) —
Planting in commercial orchards and groves (22) — CALCULATING THE NUMBER OF TREES PER ACRE
(23) — Square or Hedgerow Plantings: (23) — Diamond (Triangle) Plantings: (25) — Harvesting Tree Crops
and Yields (27) — Harvest (28) — Yields and Returns (28) — Harvesting and pack sizes variations (30) —
Homework 10-1 (33) — Homework 10-2 (43)

CHAPTER 11 Large Animal: Beef, Sheep and Swine
Animal Breeding (1) — PRODUCTION (3) — Calculating the offspring percent to market (4) — Weaning
Weight: Cattle (5) — Cattle adjusted 205 day weight (5) — How many bulls are needed for the herd? (7) —
DAIRY CALF PRODUCTION (8) — Sheep Production (8) — How many Rams are needed for the Flock or
Band? (8) — Lambing Percentage (9) — Lamb Mortality (10) — Lamb Weaning Weights (10) — Market
Lambs (10) — Swine (11) — How many Boars are needed for breeding? (12) — Piglets (12) — Pre-weaning
mortality (12) — Swine Management (12) — Market Margins and Feed-lot Margins (16) — Feedlot Margin
(16) — Net Profit per Head (17) — Dressing Percentage (17) — Dressed Weight (18) — Dressing Percent (18)
— COST (19) — Homework 11-1 (21) — Homework 11-2 (27)

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