Keith Striegler(:17) This work is important to the state because we have 92 commercial wineries right now and in 2005 we had 50 so there has been tremendous growth, each one of those wineries is out there is an economic engine for it’s region.
(:16) If we can get a variety that had absolute wonderful fruit characteristics and wine characteristics and you didn’t have to spray it at all and it had very few inputs that you had to do in the vineyard that’s the ideal situation we are looking for.
Steve Monson(:14) Winemaking seems like a pretty sexy job when people are looking at it from the outside but there is a reason that I am not wearing a button up shirt right now. I go to work I get wet dirty stained you can’t like any other clothes that you wear to work.
(:08) I really think that there will be a characteristic MU wine that we can show the world that will represent the University hopefully before I graduate.
(:08) This is information that we can share with the entire industry here and provide them with the knowledge without investing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Ray Wright(:06) It’s fresh out of Missouri instead fresh out of the sea so it has not been trucked for 12 or 14 hours.
(:07) If we can work in a value added product and get a little more income coming for Missouri farmers then we are meeting our goal.
(:16) The fact is Missouri farms have bodies of water on it about every farm we are just trying to find a different use for it and if we can get a product to go to the restaurants then that’s a good move.
Eric Cartwright(:12) When you get product that was literally swimming that morning the difference the cleanness the fresh flavor that you get from that it’s hard to compare to it’s hard to describe.”
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Neil Fox(:17) What my data shows is that there’s a little less wind in Northwest Missouri at the heights these turbines operate at than we thought there was and the problems are greater as we move away from that area.
(:18) Overall, it just means we need to be a little more careful about where we development wind farms and what our projections are for how much energy we can rely on the wind to provide.
(:23) As we see some of the other energy costs starting to rise there may be a role for smaller turbines in other parts of the state, more personal or community based wind generation rather than these large wind farms that a utility company would build.
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Sanjeev Khanna(:10) The results were fantastic they were much beyond our expectations.
(:11) If it’s exploded we want this window to be able to sustain that blast and especially we don’t want any hole to be punctured in the glass panel.
(:11) If we can develop this into a more bullet resistant glass then they can have the visibility and the protection at the same time.
(:19) The second type of glass is a heat treated glass which we are using this breaks into very small pieces so these small pieces are very light and they don’t have very sharp corners so even if they fly at a high speed they will not penetrate your body if you are wearing clothing it will probably stop it.
(1:30) Glass testing
Hank Stelzer(:12) Bats are very good for eating insects a typical big brown bat will eat three-thousand to seven-thousand mosquitoes a night so that’s good for the homeowner, but when we lookout for the farmers that’s really critical.
(:14) People think rabies, think they’re vampires and that’s not the case yes they do carry-they are source of rabies but in a bigger picture the benefits far outweigh their perceived risks.
Bree McMurray(:09) You do have to be very careful when you are taking bats out of the nets they do bite we do wear gloves to protect ourselves.
(:15) There are a lot of myths like blind as a bat, bats are not blind they see much better than anyone because they also use sonar, they are not blind they can use their visual cues but they also have the ability to use ultrasonic sonar pulse waves to hunt, to navigate.
(:13) A bat can eat its weight in insects in a night now that would be like me consuming a whole small cow every day so they are pretty amazing pest control species.
(2:30) Bat research in Wappapello, Missouri
David Dunn(:13) On-the-go sensors allows us to take the lab to the field in this way we are able to make a determination at each point in the field and apply exactly the right amount of nitrogen to that point to maximize production from all areas of your field.
(:15) The savings are real that we see from on-the-go sensors last year we saved a producer $15 dollars an acre if that’s multiplied out over a 1,000 acres that’s over $15,000 that’s possible to save and that’s a lot of money for a producer.
Charles Lange(:08) It is both economic and environmental, I plan for my children to have this land some day and I would like to leave them something worth having.
(:09) I think that something that young people should really realize that it’s possible and you can still make money and take a few days off.
Gene Stevens(:12) Farmers are paying for this technology they are being proactive they want to reduce their own fertilizer expenses but at the same time minimize the risk to the environment.
(:11) If you have a plant the is deficient in nitrogen it is not going to have as high yields so you want put the right amount of nitrogen where it is needed but you don’t want to waste that money putting on area that is not though.
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Joe Horner(:10) In five years we’ve seen about 100 million dollars worth of new grass based dairy operations coming into Missouri. We’ve also seen a lot of younger dairymen realizing that they do have a future in Missouri.
(:15) There a lot of places you could put a pasture bases dairy, but we’ve seen a lot of new dairies coming into Missouri in pasture systems, because this is the sweet spot, it hits the strategic advantages of being far enough south, far enough north, far enough east, and far enough west.
(:16) Grazing dairies present less of a barrier to entry for young dairymen because the startup cost and capitol investment are lower. They’re not just lower, but the new capitol is invested in land and in cattle that lenders prefer to lend to, rather than specialized structures that may not have resale value.
(:12) Ten years ago pasture based dairying was a fringe part of dairying. Now it’s gone mainstream and we’ve gone from less than five thousand cows in the state using the system to more than twenty thousand cows using the system.
Eric Hoffman(:13) It's very nice to work with locally because this actually comes from our home state that we live in and nothing is imported from other states to us so it is all really nice you know actually eat what we are actually growing in our own state.
(:09) I think that something that young people should really realize that it’s possible and you can still make money and take a few days off.
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