COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Computer gaming and simulation
aren’t just something designed for
enticing teen-agers to kill time at
the local video arcade.
Rangeland specialists at Mon
tana State University have
adapted these techniques to
develop “Grazing Lands,” a public
education analog computer
program in which participants
learn to make decisions con
cerning management of livestock,
wildlife and grazing land.
Cooperating groups have included
the Society for Range
Management and the Extension
Service in the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
“Grazing Lands” made its first
East Coast appearance on Thur
sday during a spring Mini-Field
Pest hotline to begin
NEWARK, Del. - The
University of Delaware
Cooperative Extension Service will
again use its crop pest hotline to
report on in-season crop pest ac
tivity, as part of its integrated pest
management and entomology
programs. The code-a-phone
system will go on line April 19.
According to extension pest
management specialist Joanne
Whalen, the hotline will provide
farmers with information on field
scouting methods, first occurrence
of pests, peak pest activity,
economic thresholds of in
festation, and treatment guidelines
for insects, weeds and diseases in
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Grazing lands
Day »at the University of
Maryland’s agronomy-dairy
forage research farm near
Clarksville (Howard county). The
event was co-sponsored by the
university’s Cooperative Ex
tension Service and the Maryland-
Delaware Forage Council.
Demonstration of the grazing
land simulator began at 10 a.m.,
according to Lester R. Vough,
Extension forage crops specialist
and associate professor of
agronomy at the College Park
campus. Delegations from Penn
State and Clemson University
were on hand as interested ob
servers.
A two-hour tour of research plots
on the forage farm began at 1 p.m.
Tour stops included Small grains
corn, soybeans and other crops.
Information for these reports
will be collected by pest
management scouts, U.S.
Department of Agriculture APHIS
survey personnel, extension
specialists and agents, and private
consultants. The hotline will be
updated weekly during April and
May. New reports will go on the
system by 10 a.m. on Thursdays.
During June, July and August,
messages will be updated by noon
on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Currently Delaware residents
can reach the hotline by dialing 1-
800-345-7544. Plans are being made
to install an out-of-state line as
well.
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commented.
A chief reason for the mini-field
day, he noted, was to sample the
extent of interest in the grazing
lands simulator. Although it is
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