EC33-136 Corn in Nebraska

Corn is Nebraska's most important crop. Of the nearly 19 million acres under cultivation in the state, over 10 million acres or more than 50 percent is normally planted to corn. This is three times the acreage of wheat, four times that of oats, and ten times that of barley. The 10-year average acre yield of corn for this state is 25.8 bushels compared with 26.9 bushels for the entire United States. Nebraska, with an average annual crop of approximately 258 million bushels, usually ranks third among all states in the total production of corn, being exceeded by Iowa and Illinois. This 1933 extension circular discusses the importance of corn, seed, varieties of corn, freezing injury, testing seed corn, hybrid corn, soil fertility and rotation, cultural practices, harvesting and storing corn, power machinery in relation to costs in corn production, corn diseases and insects, and utilization of corn.

Effect of different methods of soil preparation on soil moisture loss, weed growth and soil resistance to penetration.

The effect of different methods of soil preparation on soil moisture loss, weed growth and soil resistance to penetration has been quantified for the Latosols of Bebedouro experiment station of CPATSA-EMBRAPA, Petrolina,PE, Brazil. The methods studied are manual preparation, preparation by animal drawn wheeled tool carrier and tractorized implements. The drying characteristics of three fields with different soil physical properties were studied prior to conducting the experiment. The different methods of soil preparation caused the soil moisture loss differently. The plot prepared by animal drawn tool carrier retained more moisture for longer time even at deeper layers. The soil resistance to penetration on the surface increased with time with little variation at deeper layers.

Desempenho operacional de chassis porta-implementos para aracao e sulcamento.

O desempenho operacional dos tres tipos de chassi porta-implementos denominados Multicultor CPATSA, Multicultor CPATSA II e Policultor PONTAL foi avaliado para as operacoes de aracao e sulcamento no Campo Experimental do Bebedouro, do Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuaria do Tropico Semi-Arido, da Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (CPATSA-EMBRAPA) Petrolina,PE. Os fatores quantificados foram a velocidade de operacao, tempo de giro e capacidade de campo, usando a mesma junta de bois e operador para cada chassi e operacao. A capacidade de campo variou de 436 a 742 m2/h por aracao e de 2.664 a 3.428 m2/h por sulcamento sem efeito significativo do tipo de chassi usado. As medias gerais de velocidade de operacao e tempo de giro foram de 0,926 m/s e 23 s, respectivamente, nao havendo diferenca significativa entre as operacoes, os tipos de chassis e varias etapas durante o trabalho diario. Os valores da capacidade de campo estimados pelas medias gerais de velocidade de operacao e o tempo de giro variaram em relacao aos valores observados durante a experimentacao, em media de + 15,2% para a aracao e - 15,67% para o sulcamento.

Modelo matematico simples do rendimento operacional e quantificacao dos seus parametros para chassi porta-implementos a tracao animal.

O rendimento operacional em campo estima o total de area nao trabalhada em virtude do tempo consumido com o preparo da maquina, com as idas e vindas do galpao ao campo, como nao-aproveitamento integral das dimensoes dos orgaos ativos, com o tempo gasto nos retornos nas extremidades, e com as interrupcoes do trabalho. Este trabalho testa o modelo simples com variacao de diferentes variaveis independentes, com base nas informacoes existentes na literatura, e os valores encontrados nas experimentacoes realizadas para avaliar os efeitos de comprimento da parcela, numero de implementos usados, tipo de chassi porta-implementos, que podem efetuar os valores de V, T e Eft.

Moto-mecanização no perímetro irrigado no Vale do Rio São Francisco: estudo do caso do Projeto Bebedouro.

O trabalho avalia a intensidade e modo de utilizacao dos tratores no Projeto Bebedouro da CODEVASF, baseado nos dados fornecidos pela CAMPIB (Cooperativa Agricola Mista do Projeto de Irrigacao do Bebedouro Ltda.) e de um produtor (Fazenda Delta Agropecuaria Ltda.) da regiao. Foram analisados os dados de tres anos (1980, 1981 e 1982) de 15 tratores da CAMPIB e de dois anos (1980 e 1981) de um trator da Fazenda Delta. A maior utilizacao dos tratores no Projeto e feita para operacoes do preparo do solo (aracao e gradagem) variando de 70% a 80% das horas produtivas no caso da CAMPIB e 58% no caso da Fazenda Delta, tendo uso anual em ambos os casos na faixa de 1.000-1.400 horas por trator. As outras operacoes realizadas usando tratores sao transporte, trilhagem e sistematizacao da terra no caso da CAMPIB, e transporte e aplicacao do calcario e adubo, no caso da Fazenda Delta. A media anual dos dias de trabalho dos tratores da CAMPIB variam de 117 a 141, e a media dos dias de trabalho por mes e por unidade de trator varia de 9,7 a 11,8 dias. No projeto, alem de tratores, a travao animal e utilizada principa.lmente para operacoes de sulcamente e cobertura do adubo, portanto, o resto das operacoes e realizado manualmente. O custo de operacoes realizadas utilizando tratores varia de 15% a 46% do custo total da mecanizacao dependente das culturas, tendo a media geral do rendimento das varias operacoes (utilizando trator) 0,31 ha/h (aracao), 0,58 ha/h (gradagem), 0,55 ha/h (sulcamento, 11,7 sacos (60 kg)/h (...).

Scientific machinist : for superintendents, engineers and operators of power and electric plants, and all machinery.

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Farm power and machinery management; laboratory manual & workbook.

Mode of access: Internet.

Power for operating machinery in printing houses, a treatise on the methods of applying power to printing presses and allied machinery, with particular reference to electric drive./

Mode of access: Internet.

Power and machinery in agriculture /

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Lubricating engineer's handbook; a reference book of data, tables and general information for the use of lubricating engineers, oil salesmen, operating engineers, mill and power plant superintendents and machinery designers, etc.,

Mode of access: Internet.

Design and evaluation of an image analysis platform for low-power, low-bandwidth camera networks

We describe the design and evaluation of a platform for networks of cameras in low-bandwidth, low-power sensor networks. In our work to date we have investigated two different DSP hardware/software platforms for undertaking the tasks of compression and object detection and tracking. We compare the relative merits of each of the hardware and software platforms in terms of both performance and energy consumption. Finally we discuss what we believe are the ongoing research questions for image processing in WSNs.

Joint Power Control, Scheduling and Routing for Multihop Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks

We study wireless multihop energy harvesting sensor networks employed for random field estimation. The sensors sense the random field and generate data that is to be sent to a fusion node for estimation. Each sensor has an energy harvesting source and can operate in two modes: Wake and Sleep. We consider the problem of obtaining jointly optimal power control, routing and scheduling policies that ensure a fair utilization of network resources. This problem has a high computational complexity. Therefore, we develop a computationally efficient suboptimal approach to obtain good solutions to this problem. We study the optimal solution and performance of the suboptimal approach through some numerical examples.

Does lean imply green?: a study of the power performance implications of Java runtime bloat

The presence of software bloat in large flexible software systems can hurt energy efficiency. However, identifying and mitigating bloat is fairly effort intensive. To enable such efforts to be directed where there is a substantial potential for energy savings, we investigate the impact of bloat on power consumption under different situations. We conduct the first systematic experimental study of the joint power-performance implications of bloat across a range of hardware and software configurations on modern server platforms. The study employs controlled experiments to expose different effects of a common type of Java runtime bloat, excess temporary objects, in the context of the SPECPower_ssj2008 workload. We introduce the notion of equi-performance power reduction to characterize the impact, in addition to peak power comparisons. The results show a wide variation in energy savings from bloat reduction across these configurations. Energy efficiency benefits at peak performance tend to be most pronounced when bloat affects a performance bottleneck and non-bloated resources have low energy-proportionality. Equi-performance power savings are highest when bloated resources have a high degree of energy proportionality. We develop an analytical model that establishes a general relation between resource pressure caused by bloat and its energy efficiency impact under different conditions of resource bottlenecks and energy proportionality. Applying the model to different "what-if" scenarios, we predict the impact of bloat reduction and corroborate these predictions with empirical observations. Our work shows that the prevalent software-only view of bloat is inadequate for assessing its power-performance impact and instead provides a full systems approach for reasoning about its implications.