Building on A time to act : an advisory document to the Secretary of Agriculture, Ann M. Veneman, from the USDA Advisory Committee on Small Farms /

"Strategies for implementing sections of the National Commission on Small Farms report, "A Time to Act"--P. 1.

Information for small farmers and ranchers.

Shipping list no.: 2003-0226-P.

Small Business Administration : hearing before the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, first session. Progress report of Small Business Administration. March 21, 1955.

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Examination of the mission of SBA [microform] : hearings before the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress.

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Oversight of SBA implementation of 8(a) program and Public Law 95-507 [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Marketing, and the Family Farmer of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session ... April 5, 1979.

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Oversight of SBA's management assistance programs [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Government Regulation and Paperwork of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session ... September 24, 1979.

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H.R. 5612, amend the Small Business Act to extend the Current SBA 8(a) pilot program [microform] : hearing before the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, on H.R. 5612, to amend the Small Business Act to extend the current SBA 8(a) pilot program, August 4, 1980.

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Small Business Administration's veterans' assistance program [microform] : hearing before the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, on Small Business Administration's veterans' assistance programs, June 4, 1980.

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Age, growth, and spawning season of red bream (Beryx decadactylus) off the southeastern United States

Red bream (Beryx decadactylus) is a commercially important deep-sea benthopelagic fish with a circumglobal distribution on insular and continental slopes and seamounts. In the United States, small numbers are caught incidentally in the wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) fishery which operates off the southeastern coast, but no biological information exists for the management of the U.S. red bream population. For this study, otoliths (n=163) and gonads (n=161) were collected from commercially caught red bream between 2003 and 2008 to determine life history parameters. Specimens ranged in size from 410 to 630 mm fork length and were all determined to be mature by histological examination of the gonads. Females in spawning condition were observed from June through September, and reproductively active males were found year-round. Sectioned otoliths were difficult to interpret, but maximum age estimates were much higher than the 15 years previously reported for this species from the eastern North Atlantic based on whole-otolith analysis. Estimated ages ranged from 8 to 69 years, and a minimum lifespan of 49 years was validated by using bomb radiocarbon dating. Natural mortality was estimated at 0.06/yr. This study shows that red bream are longer lived and more vulnerable to overfishing than previously assumed and should be managed carefully to prevent overexploitation.

Oversight of federal procurement decisions on Wedtech : hearings before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, first session ....

"September 29, 30, 1987"--Pt. 2.

Small-scale Commercial Culturing of Northern Bay Scallops, Argopecten irradians irradians, in Atlantic United States and Canada

In recent decades, hatchery-growout culture of oysters, Crassostrea virginica, and northern quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria, has been commercially successful in Atlantic United States and oysters in Atlantic Canada. Culturists have not had success, as yet, with northern bay scallops, Argopecten irradians irradians. Large mortalities occur during the culture process, mainly because the scallops are relatively delicate and some die when handled. In addition, too little edible meat, i.e. the adductor muscle, is produced for the culture operation to be profitable. However, three companies, one in Massachusetts, one in New Brunswick, and one on Prince Edward Island, Canada, have discovered that they can produce bay scallops successfully by harvesting them when partially-to fully-grown and selling them whole. In restaurants, the scallops are cooked and served with all their meats (adductor muscles and rims) and also with the shells, which have been genetically-bred for bright colors. The scallop seed are produced in hatcheries and then grown in lantern or pearl nets and cages to market size. Thus far, production has been relatively small, just beyond the pilot-scale, until a larger demand develops for this product.

Soy & corn production on small farms /

"Addendum to the Project Paper, 'Corn and soy production on small farms' ... prepared in response to STATE 160059, 'DAEC review soy and corn grant pp'."

Historical development of transport coordination & integration in the United States.

"This study was prepared principally by James A. Little ... Henry M. Cunningham...and Chester E. Stiles."