From WILSONDO@phibred.com Mon Feb 23 21:26:52 1998 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 07:34:01 -0600 From: "Wilson, Dale" To: sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Weed management Dan, Interesting excerpts on weed resistance and management. IMO, we need to use a variety of approaches for weed control. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience using animals for weed control. I saw a poster at the ASA meeting a couple years ago, on aversive training of sheep to avoid eating christmas trees. The sheep were then used to control weeds among christmas trees. Also, sheep and goats can be used to control leafy spurge, especially if they have been raised on the weed. IMO, use of trained animals is a powerful and generalizable, but underexploited approach to weed control. I will send an abstract of a proposal I started to write on this subject if anyone is interested. Dale To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with "unsubscribe sanet-mg". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". From WILSONDO@phibred.com Mon Feb 23 21:28:14 1998 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:03:00 -0600 From: "Wilson, Dale" To: sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: RE: Weed management with animals Geoff > Could you post this abstract to the list. I'm sure a lot of people > would be > interested. > Attached is my proposal. I envision a company to lease trained animals to farmers. I was going to submit this as a small business grant proposal when I was at the University, but then found that I would not meet the entreprenurial criteria, and my job was in an unrelated subject area. I have attached it as a Word file and as a text file. <> <> If you can use these ideas, or know someone who can, go ahead and take them. Dale [Part 2, Application/MSWORD 20KB] [Unable to print this part] [Part 3, Text/PLAIN 58 lines] [Unable to print this part]