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Cultivar Development
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This open textbook places emphasis on the design of a process pipeline for continuous development of new improved cultivars as a means to implement the cycle of crop improvement. Essential topics in New Line Development and New Line Evaluation are addressed, such as choice of parents, creation of progeny, and evaluation and selection of progeny. Students learn to design a process pipeline to produce improved cultivars that meet a specific product target which represents stakeholders’ needs.
Each of the books in the PBEA series comes with a section in its back matter titled "Applied Learning Activities" which includes additional content aligned to each chapter such as handouts and worksheets, csv files, code for statistical analysis in R, and recommended readings.

Subject:
Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Forestry and Agriculture
Life Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Textbook
Provider:
Iowa State University
Author:
Kendall Lamkey
Rita H. Mumm
Walter Suza
Date Added:
10/18/2023
Energy and Environment in American History: 1705-2005
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A survey of how America has become the world's largest consumer of energy. Explores American history from the perspective of energy and its relationship to politics, diplomacy, the economy, science and technology, labor, culture, and the environment. Topics include muscle and water power in early America, coal and the Industrial Revolution, electrification, energy consumption in the home, oil and US foreign policy, automobiles and suburbanization, nuclear power, OPEC and the 70's energy crisis, global warming, and possible paths for the future.

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Arts and Humanities
Economics
Social Science
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Peter Shulman
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Financial Management for Small Businesses
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Financial Statements & Present Value Models

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This book is for those whose financial management focus is on small businesses. For you, we adapt the traditional financial management themes emphasized in corporate financial management courses to meet the needs of small businesses.

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This book is for those whose financial management focus is on small businesses. For you, we adapt the traditional financial management themes emphasized in corporate financial management courses to meet the needs of small businesses.

Many financial managers of small businesses come from farms or agribusinesses. Others are interested in working for or starting businesses in the food or retail sectors. In most cases, these businesses aren’t organized as C-corporations impacting things like taxes, depreciation, and legal requirements around compiling and reporting financial data. They are rarely publicly traded which creates unique constraints to raising debt and equity capital and calculating required risk-adjusted returns.

These financial managers are interested in solving specific problems they face in family or small businesses. They want to know how to apply the tools they are learning—coordinated financial statement analysis, present value analysis, management of cash flow, measuring their opportunity costs, etc.—to the problems they face at home. As we started to work on the actual problems faced by these managers, it quickly became clear that corporate finance tools don’t exactly fit the small businesses they come from. Further, in attempting to tackle the problems they bring, we learned that finding and/or constructing the data needed for financial management is another skill set often overlooked and in need of development. In the end, after investing a lot of time, we found that—without adaptation—corporate finance theory as traditionally taught doesn’t meet the knowledge needs and application skills of financial managers of small businesses. We wrote this book to be a catalyst that enables students and managers of small businesses to learn the tools and skill sets that will help them make sound financial management decisions.

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Subject:
Agriculture
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Finance
Management
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Michigan State University
Date Added:
01/10/2020
Global Perspectives on Industrialization
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This course will focus on the emergence and evolution of industrial societies around the world. The student will begin by comparing the legacies of industry in ancient and early modern Europe and Asia and examining the agricultural and commercial advances that laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution. The student will then follow the history of industrialization in different parts of the world, taking a close look at the economic, social, and environmental effects of industrialization. This course ultimately examines how industrialization developed, spread across the globe, and shaped everyday life in the modern era. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: identify key ideas and events in the history of industrialization; identify connections between the development of capitalism and the development of modern industry; use analytical tools to evaluate the factors contributing to industrial change in different societies; identify the consequences of industrialization in the 19th and 20th centuries in different societies; critique historical interpretations of the causes and effects of industrialization; and analyze and interpret primary source documents describing the process of industrialization and life in industrial societies. (History 363)

Subject:
Economics
History
Social Science
World History
Material Type:
Assessment
Full Course
Lecture
Lecture Notes
Reading
Syllabus
Textbook
Provider:
The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:
11/21/2011
Grow Bracelets (PreK - 1st Grade) Agricultural STEM Activity
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In this activity students will make a “growing” bracelet and learn about the basic elements plants need to grow and thrive. Includes activity instructions, extension activities, songs, and additional reading list.

NGSS: K-LS1-1, 1-LS1-1, K-ESS2-2 (extension activity)

CCSS: L.K.5, SL.K.1, SL.K.5, SL.1.4

Social Sciences: Partially meets 3.13

Time: 30 minutes

Materials: "One Bean" book, chenille stems/pipe cleaners, and pony beads (yellow, brown, blue, clear, green, and red.

Subject:
Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Education
Elementary Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Author:
Columbia Gorge STEM Hub
Date Added:
08/07/2020
Heart of the Harvest: GoPro POV Perspective of Migrant Harvesting
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Immigration has been a touchstone of the American experience since the country’s founding. As part of this group, migrant workers are a large part of the workforce.
GoPro Challenge has now allowed educators and curriculum designers to use GoPro equipment to capture the ordinary world in ways that have never been seen before. The intimate look at the POV world of migrant workers in action, GoPro and virtual learning platforms together have the power to illuminate cultural, social, and political issues for students and teachers alike.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Social Science
Date Added:
11/22/2014
Human Geography: An open textbook for Advanced Placement
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Human Geography: An open textbook for Advanced Placement is aligned to the 2015  College Board course articulation for AP Human Geography. The purpose of  AP Human Geography is to introduce students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice.

Subject:
Cultural Geography
Social Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Tracy Pitzer
Date Added:
08/16/2017
Integrated Pest Management
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Learners will be able to 1) describe different integrated pest management techniques for controlling agricultural pests and 2) identify environmental/economical advantages and disadvantages of different pest management methods

Subject:
Agriculture
Botany
Career and Technical Education
Life Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Module
Provider:
Oregon State University
Author:
Open Oregon State
Oregon State University
Date Added:
05/18/2021
Introduction to Benchmarking in Farming
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The purpose of this resource is to introduce the process of benchmarking in farming. It is a very basic tutorial aimed at familiarizing farmers with the practice of benchmarking in farm management. This resource hope to encourage learners to research further learning resources and opportunities. The content of this resource is derived from:

Kahan, D. (2013). Farm business analysis using benchmarking. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Assessment
Reading
Date Added:
11/02/2016
Permaculture Design
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We have created this free collection of resources in an effort to share with the world the amazing potential for making positive change that Permaculture design has to offer. Permaculture design is a method of landscape planning that can be applied to anything, from a home garden or farm to a city block or entire village. Permaculture design is an ethically based, whole-systems design approach to create sustainable human settlements and institutions. Although rooted in horticulture and agriculture, permaculture design also touches on regional planning, ecology, animal husbandry, technology, architecture and international development.

Subject:
Applied Science
Ecology
Environmental Science
Life Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Oregon State University
Author:
Andrew Millison
Open Oregon State
Oregon State University
Date Added:
06/03/2021
Permaculture Design: Tools for Climate Resilience
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This book is predominantly about climate, and the macro influences of climate and climate change on design. As we get through the topics of climate analogues and climate change forecasting, we will end up moving down this list to see the climate’s influence on specific design choices. Data dashboard

Word Count: 42354

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Subject:
Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Oregon State University
Author:
Andrew Millison
Date Added:
08/01/2019
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management and XXV Congreso de Ingeniería de Organización
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Word Count: 78647

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Subject:
Agriculture
Applied Science
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Economics
Education
Engineering
Finance
Management
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Pressbooks
Date Added:
01/26/2024
Quantitative Genetics for Plant Breeding
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This open textbook is intended to expose students to the application of quantitative genetic models to plant breeding populations. Specific topics include conducting and interpreting multi-environment trials, resource allocation using engineering principles, genetic modeling of quantitative traits, simulation modeling, variance, covariance and heritability, prediction, selection, and genetic gain.

Subject:
Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Forestry and Agriculture
Genetics
Life Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Iowa State University
Author:
Anthony Assibi Mahama
Katherine Espinosa
Kendall Lamkey
Mark Newell
Walter Suza
William Beavis
Date Added:
10/18/2023
Quantitative Methods for Plant Breeding
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This open textbook covers common statistics used in agriculture research, including experimental design in plant breeding and genetics, as well as the analysis of variance, regression, and correlation.

Each of the books in the PBEA series comes with a section in its back matter titled "Applied Learning Activities" which includes additional content aligned to each chapter such as handouts and worksheets, csv files, code for statistical analysis in R, and recommended readings.

Subject:
Agriculture
Career and Technical Education
Genetics
Life Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Iowa State University
Author:
Dennis Todey
Ken Moore
Kendall Lamkey
Kendra Meade
Laura Merrick
M. L. Harbur
Ron Mowers
Walter Suza
William Beavis
Date Added:
10/18/2023
Reading Technical Text Specific to Farming - Loan Context
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This lesson is designed for adult learners who are pursuing a career in farming. It focuses on reading scientific and technical texts (Grade 6) related to farming and farm loans. This lesson will help learners identify and define technical words specific to farming and borrowing money. The learners will have the opportunity to apply their acquired knowledge in class activities such as reading and analyzing case studies.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Case Study
Date Added:
11/19/2016