The Beginning Farmer Center (BFC) was established by the 1994 General Assembly. Objectives include: - coordinating educational programs and services for beginning farmers, - assessing needs of beginning and retiring farmers to identify opportunities for programs and services, and - developing...

Inheriting a farm can be both exciting and frustrating. Some people know exactly what they would like to do with the farm, but many do not. A number of questions and issues must be addressed before the final decisions are made. Farmland heirs have three choices of what to do with an inherited...

'Green infrastructure' is a term used to describe systems of parks, greenways, open spaces and other natural landscape elements that provide community benefits. Although we have some understanding of how people use parks and developed greenways, little has been documented about use of the...

In the United States, corn (<i>Zea mays</i> L.) stover has been targeted for second generation fuel production and other bio-products. Our objective was to characterize sugar and structural composition as a function of vertical distribution of corn stover (leaves and stalk) that was sampled at...

Energy storage technologies may be electrical or thermal. Electrical energy stores have an electrical input and output to connect them to the system of which they form part, while thermal stores have a thermal input and output. The principal electrical energy storage technologies described are...