The bankruptcy of Farmland Industry had a large impact on the balance sheets of Oklahoma cooperatives with the stock represented over 70% of allocated equities. At the time of the survey, the vast majority of managers had allocated or planed to allocate the Farmland loss to their members by reducing...
This fact sheet describes the life cycles, types, and various diseases caused by the ticks of Oklahoma. Ticks are very important pests of wildlife, domestic animals, and humans. Their irritating bites cause extreme pain and economic losses in domestic animals and a great deal of discomfort to people who work...
Marketing planning is interrelated with production planning. Marketing means understanding buyers' needs and producing to meet those needs. Buyers typically pay premium prices for the alfalfa attributes they value: high feed value, few weeds and grasses, and their preferred harvesting package. Objectively measuring alfalfa quality feed value is important and...
This fact sheet describes the clinical signs, diagnosis, prevalence, and prevention of Johne's disease in Oklahoma. Johne's Disease (pronounced yo-nee's) is a disease of the intestinal tract of cattle and other ruminants. It is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium Para tuberculosis, acid fast bacteria very similar to the organism that...
Small farm flocks of poultry are common in Oklahoma. Disease control and prevention is essential in order to maintain a healthy, productive flock. This fact sheet discusses various bacterial and viral diseases diagnosed in poultry from small farm flocks. The causes and symptoms of diseases like Infectious Coryza, Fowl Cholera,...
Risk Communicating with the public, the media and other health and emergency response organizations becomes a critical role during a confirmed or potential threat situation. Utilizing the tools of risk communication during a public health emergency will help local administrators communicate effectively the related risk to the public. The following...
This Paper explains need to improve the Oklahoma Architectural Act; Provide Oklahoma citizens and businesses with a uniform standard for the protection of public health, safety and welfare as it relates to the built environment; Raise that standard to a level that matches the laws in adjacent states.
The paper mentions that experience indicates that coalbed methane productivity in Oklahoma is at least as dependent on production practices as it is on drilling and completion practices. Cased-hole completions in larger hole sizes have been shown to provide significant advantages for completion and production. Coal fines are often created...
The paper brings up that information is available to increase production and profitability in approximately 1,000 Late- Paleozoic oil reservoirs in Oklahoma whose sediments were deposited in fluvial-dominateddeltaic FDD environments. As a class, these are the most economically worthy of all domestic reservoirs for continued and renewed efforts to locate...
The paper states that the Morrow Sandstone of the shelf and deeper parts of the Anadarko Basin in western Oklahoma has produced significant natural gas since the late 1950s. Regional geological mapping and production data summarized from contrasting settings at Milder Field, Arapaho Field, and Cheyenne West Field can be...
The paper states that the Hunton Play, in spite of many decades of production from numerous Oklahoma basins, has remained too poorly understood to undertake confident exploration programs under adverse conditions, such as in the deep Anadarko Basin or in unfamiliar areas, such as the Carney play on the Cherokee...
Automobile manufacturers increasingly turn to outsourcing vehicle components so they can devote more attention to creating enticing designs and improving production efficiencies. The Controls Group has since introduced this new streamlined construction methodology to other automotive and industrial facilities, including a new plant Nissan is planning to build in Mississippi....
The Music Hall has been a focal point in Oklahoma City for over six decades. Constructed of a very pale, fine-grained limestone, the building exterior is a strongly rectangular design with massive fluted pilasters, large lobby windows, and medallion-like relief carvings along the upper façade. Like the exterior, the building's...
Park Chase is a 64-building apartment complex on 27 acres in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Falling occupancy rates at Park Chase in the late 1980s had resulted in a decision by the previous owners to defer maintenance on the chiller and boiler plant that served the property's two-pipe system. GeoExchange advocates undertook...
A reader writes: I'm looking for great ideas, and you ALWAYS have them. Our company moved their corporate headquarters to Oklahoma from Texas, where we were the established business in our area. We still have great business coming through Texas, but Oklahoma has not...
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Prototype 1 of the Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon was unveiled last June 12 on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. A total of eight such prototypes will eventually be delivered to Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, by 2010. There, Army scientists will put the prototypes through rigorous testing...
OKLAHOMA CITY AP -- After spending most of his NBA career in Seattle, Earl Watson thinks he's learned a lot about Oklahoma City in only two weeks in his new team's home. When he hasn't been playing pickup games with his Thunder teammates, he's had a chance...
SPE CONFERENCES Oct. 5-8. SPE's Automotive TPO Conference. Site: Best Western Sterling Inn, Sterling Heights, Michigan USA. Sponsored by the Detroit Section. Contact: Bill Windscheif, +1 248-375-5055; Email: William.windscheif@fhr.com. Oct. 7-9. SPE's Annual Blow Molding Conference ABC. Site: Chevron Phillips...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sadly, the rumors aren't true: The Flaming Lips are not spiking the green popcorn they're serving at screenings of their new film, Christmas on Mars, with LSD. "We'd need an awful lot of acid--like a lab right there, on-site," says Wayne Coyne, the band's singer and...
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