All American Daylilies Buttered Popcorn and Persian Market
The All-American Daylily Selection Council names Buttered Popcorn and Persian Market as top performers. Buttered Popcorn blooms 97 days annually with tall scapes and drought tolerance. Persian Market yields 90 days of large salmon pink blooms on 25 to 30 inch stems. Both suit borders or containers and pair with blue or pastel perennials.
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South
Homestead
All-American Daylily Selection Council
Grass pellets heat Shelburne Farms to cut fuel costs
Shelburne Farms in Vermont tests converting grass into pellets to replace wood and fuel oil. Grass pellets, dried by sun, could cost about half wood at 100 dollars per ton, with potential for 14 million Btu per ton. Grass pellets may be produced on the farm and used in combined heat and power systems.
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Shelburne
Great Plains
Jock Gill
Grass Energy Collaborative
Shelburne Farms
Marshall Webb
Shelburne Furns
Gas Energy Collaborative
Webb
Robert Bender
South Burlington
Averill Cook
Shelburne, Vt
ISU Researchers Safeguard Irreplaceable Chicken Genetic Material
Iowa State University preserves over two dozen inbred chicken lines at the Poultry Research Center to keep genetic consistency for disease, vaccine, growth, and skeletal studies. 300 rooster sperm samples are stored in Colorado to prevent loss from events like tornadoes, with cryogenic storage at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort Collins.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State University
Poultry Research Center
Sue Lamont
Animal Science
Department of Agricule Research Center
Colorado
University of Town
Lamont
Towa
National Center For Genetic Resources Preservation
Fort Collins
Harvey Blackburn
Ncogap
Winter Garden Possibilities Hidden in Plain Sight
Schoepfle Garden Notebook highlights how winter gardens offer enduring appeal through persistent fruits on holly and crabapple, colorful stems from dogwood and forsythia, textured bark on mature trees, contorted branches, and ornamental grasses. Joe Loutman, horticulturalist for Schoepfle Garden Lorain County Metro Park, notes the absence of weeds as a possible revelation.
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