Includes updates for three years and a CD-ROM will be sent to you with your first year's updates.

Reviewing monthly heifer prices from the last 20 years can offer a better understanding of futures prices, cash prices and basis, and can help producers choose price risk management strategies.

Demonstrates the technique for "skirting" wool so that producers can obtain better prices.

Covers the 17 elements essential for plant nutrition; macronutrients and micronutrients; the function and mobility of nutrients within plants; the forms of each nutrient that are taken up by plants; typical nutrient plant concentrations; how nutrient needs change during the growing season; the basics of nutrient intake; and the basics of how nutrients are held or released by the soil.

Learn the nine major nitrogen processes that occur in soil; the major factors that affect each of the nitrogen processes; how different crops and cropping systems affect nitrogen availability; optimum nitrate sampling depths for different conditions; how soil nitrate tests are used to estimate nitrogen fertilizer requirements; and how to calculate nitrogen fertilizer application rates.

Understand the various soil forms of phosphorus; recognize how soil and climate properties affect phosphorus cycling in soil; recognize how cropping systems affect phosphorus management; be able to make a phosphorus fertilizer recommendation based on a soil test report; recognize the advantages and disadvantages of different phosphorus fertilizers.

Learn the various soil forms of potassium; understand the soil processes that affect the availability of potassium to plants; understand how soil and climate properties affect potassium cycling; be able to make potassium fertilizer recommendations based on soil analysis and site characteristics.

This bulletin discusses guidelines for developing pasture leases and includes worksheets to determine contributions to a beef cattle share arrangement.