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Anaerobic digester adoption on animal feeding operations
(2015-05)
The livestock industry may create environmental problems such as nutrient pollution in water bodies and the discharge of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but anaerobic digestion could be a viable solution. In an ...
Essays on residential water demand and consumer preferences for turfgrass attributes
(2015-07)
The first essay determined the residential water demand and the factors affecting water demand for different periods (pre-drought vs. during-drought and summer vs. winter) in Oklahoma City area. Individual household water ...
Switchgrass as a dedicated energy crop: Fertilizer requirements, land use, yield variability, and costs
(2015-12)
The U.S Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) mandates that 36 billion gallon of renewable fuels be marketed annually (if produced) by 2022 including 16 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuels. Switchgrass ...
Essays on the economic value of genetic testing in beef cattle production
(2015-12)
Recent advancements in genomic technology have made genetic marker panels for a variety of economically-relevant beef cattle traits commercially available. Although independent validations have found that many of these ...