Deer Aging
By Rick Buser
Interactive excercise to age deer by dental inspection.
Estate Planning: The Process of Transferring a Farm
By Kevin Rauchholz
Learners examine 10 steps to consider when passing on farm assets including financial security, partnerships, taxes, lease agreements, gifting, and treatment of heirs.
Land Survey Maps
By Bruce Cecka
Learners practice identifying land sections using land survey terms and maps. Feedback is provided at the end of the activity.
Introduction to Financial Record Keeping
Learners read and listen to tips for organizing farm-related financial information.
Budgets and Business Analysis
Learners read an extensive explanation of the types of budgets most frequently used by farm operators, whole farm, partial, and enterprise, and complete a brief quiz to test their knowledge. Farm financial standards and ratio calculations are provided. Exercises complete the activity.
Weight-Volume Relationships: Void Ratio
By Steve Whitmoyer
Students read how to determine and calculate the void ratio for a given sample of soil or aggregate based on the weight-volume relationship.
Sources of Credit
Learners examine the types and sources of credit that are available for operators of a farm or other agricultural business.
Veterinary Estrous Cycles
By Laura Lien
In this interactive object, learners study animal estrous cycle lengths. They then test their knowledge in three exercises.
Weight- Volume Relationships: Dry Density
Students read how to determine and calculate the dry density for a given sample of soil or aggregate based on the mass-volume relationship.
Weight-Volume Relationships: Degree of Saturation
Students read how to determine and calculate the degree of saturation for a given sample of soil or aggregate based on the weight-volume relationship.
Implementing a Financial Record Program
Learners listen to an explanation of balance sheet basics for farm operations. They then determine how purchases should be listed in a farm record book and complete sample income and expense sheets.
Goal Setting: Business, Personal, and Family Goals
In the first section of this activity, learners listen to an introduction explaining the importance of setting goals in all aspects of life. The remaining pages list examples of goals and procedures relating to a farming operation.
Prioritizing Capital Purchases
Learners consider whether to lease or purchase equipment based on return on investment. This activity is geared toward operators of a dairy farm. Two pages contain audio.
Weight-Volume Relationships: Dry Unit Weight
Students read how to determine and calculate the dry unit weight for a given sample of soil or aggregate based on the weight-volume relationship.
What is Biosecurity?
At the end of this lesson you will be able to
- Explain what biosecurity means.
- Describe why biosecurity is important.
- Identify what kinds of disease agents we try to prevent or control with biosecurity.
- Demonstrate disease agent-host-environmental interactions that result in disease.
Veterinary Anti-Inflammatory and Pain-Reducing Drugs
In this interactive object, learners sort veterinary anti-inflammatory and pain reducing medications into categories. They also complete an exercise involving trade names.
Gradation - Sieve Sizes
This learning object introduces the student to sieves and how their designation is related to the aggregate size.
Weight-Volume Relationships: Introduction to a 3-Phase Diagram
In this animated activity, students read about weight-volume relationships within a given sample of soil or aggregate. They complete problems using a 3-phase diagram.
Veterinary Urinary System Drugs
In this interactive object learners will sort veterinary urinary medications into categories.
Veterinary Respiratory System Drugs
In this interactive object, learners sort veterinary respiratory drugs into categories.
Inventory Assets and Human Resources
Learners listen to an explanation of how to perform an inventory of a farm business. They then list their hard assets and human resources by completing worksheets that they save to their personal computers.
Veterinary Muscle Function Drugs
In this interactive object, learners sort veterinary muscle function medications into categories.
Digital Terrain Model: Extrapolation of Elevations
Students read how to determine the elevation of an alignment or cross section where it crosses the TIN.
Weight-Volume Relationships: Saturated Unit Weight
Students read how to determine and calculate the saturated unit weight for a given sample of soil or aggregate, based on the weight-volume relationship. Practice problems complete the activity.
Veterinary Gastrointestinal System Drugs
Learners sort veterinary gastrointestinal medications into categories in drag-and-drop exercises.