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Updated 08/25/2008

Big Flats Plant Materials Center

The Big Flats Plant Materials Center has published the following documents to solve specific resource conservation needs. Click on the document title to view each document.

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Publication Types
Technical Notes
Plant Fact Sheets
Information Brochures and Flyers
Plant Materials Progress Report of Activities
Miscellaneous Popular Articles
Progress Report
Published Abstracts
Poster
Published Symposium Proceedings
Popular Journal or Magazine Articles
Release Notices
Other Publication Types

Technical Notes

Technical Note 1: Windbreak Plant Species for Odor Management around Poultry Production Facilities.. (PDF; 382 KB) Belt, S.V., M. van der Grinten, G. Malone, P. Patterson, R. Shockey. 2007. USDA, NRCS, National Plant Materials Center, Beltsville, MD. April 2007. 21p. (ID# 7166)

Plant Fact Sheets

Plant Fact Sheet: Lathyrus sylvestris Lathco (Flatpea). (PDF; 81 KB) USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center. 1989. USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center, Big Flats, NY. Aug. 1989. 2p. (ID# 131)

Information Brochures and Flyers

Cover Crops in Corn - A Guide for Corn Producers. (PDF; 4.7 MB) NRCS, Big Flats PMC; Cornell U.; Finger Lakes RC&D Council. 2007. NRCS, Big Flats PMC, Corning, NY. second version, 11/07. 2p. (ID# 7690)

Source of Supply of Released Plants from Big Flats PMC 2007. (PDF; 239 KB) Dianne Naylor and Martin van der Grinten. 2007. Corning, NY. 4/07. 3p. (ID# 7345)

Plant Materials Progress Report of Activities

Big Flats Progress Report of Activities in NY for Year 2007. (PDF; 524 KB) Martin van der Grinten, Dianne Naylor and Paul Salon. 2008. 9p. (ID# 7980)

Big Flats Progress Report of Activities in NY for Year 2006. (PDF; 603 KB) Martin van der Grinten and Dianne Naylor. 2007. Corning, NY. 9p. (ID# 7343)

Big Flats PMC Progress Report for Year 2004. (PDF; 289 KB) Van der Grinten, M. and D. Naylor. 2005. USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center, Corning, New York. Report for 2004. 5p. (ID# 6169)

Progress Report of Activities for 2001. (PDF; 202 KB) USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center. 2002. USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center, Big Flats, NY. Mar. 2002. 4p. (ID# 119)

Progress Report of Activities for 2000. (PDF; 268 KB) USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center. 2001. USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center, Big Flats, NY. Mar. 2001. 4p. (ID# 118)

Miscellaneous Popular Articles

Switchgrass biofuel demonstration field selection criteria. (PDF; 16 KB) Paul Salon. 2007. (ID# 7534)

Eastern Gamagrass Breeding in New York and Oklahoma. (PDF; 55 KB) Salon, P. and C. Dewald. 2000. USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center and USDA-ARS, Corning, NY. 11p. (ID# 2561)

Eastern Gamagrass Response to Accent (nicosulfuron), Basis (rimsulfuron) and Plateau (imazapic) Herbicides in Comparison to a Few Common Corn Herbicides - PMC article. (PDF; 29 KB) Salon, P.R. and M. Van der Grinten. 2000. USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center, Corning, NY. 7p. (ID# 2569)

Eastern Gamagrass Forage Quality as Influenced by Harvest Management. (PDF; 39 KB) Salon, P. and D. Cherney. 1998. USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center and Cornell University, Corning, NY. 1998. 11p. (ID# 2562)

Progress Report

Acadia National Park Report from Big Flats PMC for 2006. (PDF; 456 KB) Martin van der Grinten. 2007. Big Flats, NY. 3p. (ID# 7344)

Acadia National Park Report from Big Flats PMC for 2005. (PDF; 199 KB) Martin van der Grinten. 2005. 3p. (ID# 7497)

Published Abstracts

Compatibility of mixture of Canada, Virginia and riverband wildrye seeded with seven individually seeded native and introduced grasses. (PDF; 15 KB) Paul R. Salon and Martin van der Grinten. 2007. 5th Eastern Native Grass Symposium, Harrisburg, PA. Oct. 11-13/07. 1p. (ID# 7142)

Eastern Gamagrass Forage Quality as Influenced by Harvest Management - ASA NW Abstract. (PDF; 51 KB) Salon, P. and D. Cherney. 2000. Northeastern Branch of the American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting Abstracts, University of Delaware, June 18-2, 2000, Madison, WI. Jun. 2000. 1p. (ID# 2392)

Yield of Eastern Gamagrass with Interseeded Legumes - ASA Abstract. (PDF; 38 KB) Salon, P. and M. Schmidt. 2000. American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting Abstracts, Minneapolis, MN. Nov. 2000. 1p. (ID# 2400)

Chromosome Doubling and Mode of Reproduction in Induced Tetraploids of Eastern Gamagrass - Abstract. (PDF; 27 KB) Salon. P. and E. Earle. 1998. Plant Cell Reports, Vol. 17:881-885. 1p. (ID# 2576)

Poster

Compatibility of a mixture of Canada, Virginia and riverbank wildrye seeded with seven individual species of native and introduced cool season grasses. (PDF; 117 KB) Paul R. Salon and Martin vander Grinten. 2007. The Fifth Eastern Native Grass Conference, Harrisburg, PA. October 10-13 2006. 1p. (ID# 7139)

Establishing switchgrass for biomass production. (PDF; 80 KB) Paul Salon. 2007. Empire farm days, Seneca Falls, NY. 8/7 - 8/9/07. 1p. (ID# 7530)

Restoration Genetics Glossary. (PDF; 27 KB) Paul Salon. 2007. 5th Easten Native Grass Conference, Harrisburg, PA. Oct.10-13,2006. 1p. (ID# 7532)

Yield of eastern gamagrass with and without bigbluestem and switchgrass #2. (PDF; 132 KB) Paul R. Salon. 2006. The Fifth Native Grass Symposium, Harrisburg, Pa. October 10-13, 2006. 1p. (ID# 7141)

Establishing Cover Crops at Time of Corn Planting - ASA Poster. (PDF; 122 KB) Salon, P. and M. Van der Grinten. 2001. American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC. Oct. 2001. 1p. (ID# 2396)

Evaluating Alternative Cover Crops for the Control of Runoff P Losses. (PDF; 201 KB) Peter, J., P. Kleinman, and P. Salon. 2001. American Society of Agronomy Annual Meetings, Charlotte, NC. Oct.. 1p. (ID# 2428)

Published Symposium Proceedings

Yield of eastern gamagrass with and without big bluestem and switchgrass#1. (PDF; 39 KB) Paul R. Salon. 2006. The 5th Eastern Native Grass Symposium, Harrisburg, PA. October 10-13, 2006. 5p. (ID# 7140)

The Use of Native Warm Season Grasses for Critical Area Stabilization. (PDF; 36 KB) Miller, C.F. and J.A. Dickerson. 1999. Proceedings of the Second Eastern Native Grass Symposium, Nov. 17-19, 1999, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, MD. 7p. (ID# 405)

Popular Journal or Magazine Articles

Harvesting Native Seeds with a Gas Hedge Trimmer. (PDF; 197 KB) Van der Grinten, M. and B. Ayers. 2000. Native Plants Journal, Moscow, ID. Vol. 1(2). 1p. (ID# 1858)

Release Notices

Notice of Release: SG4X-1 Eastern Gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides). (PDF; 65 KB) Salon, P. and M. van der Grinten. 1995. USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center, Big Flats, NY. 1p. (ID# 2570)

Notice of Release: Spike Hybrid Poplar (Populus deltoides). (PDF; 166 KB) USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center. USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center, Big Flats, NY. 3p. (ID# 123)

Other Publication Types

CSP covercrop on farm demonstration project. (PDF; 24 KB) Paul Salon. 2007. Conservation Security Program Project for the 2007 enhancement program submitted for national rewiew within NRCS to qualify for pilot project for on farm demonstrations, Syracuse, NY. 2007. 4p. (ID# 7529)

Seed Collection Strategy Rationale. (PDF; 31 KB) Paul Salon. 2007. Long Island Native Grass Initiative, Syracuse, NY. 2007. 2p. (ID# 7533)

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