RESOURCE

Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World

* Gone With the Wind
In the second installment of a series on energy, Jim Fischer and colleagues address a fast-growing, inexpensive source of power: the whirling blades of turbines turning wind into megawatts. As natural gas prices soar, wind power is an appealing bargain. With improved reliability and efficiency, the future suggests more and more of us will be going with the wind.
* Center-Pivot Irrigation
Automation of irrigation scheduling with feedback data from the crop or soil can simplify life for busy irrigation managers. Researchers at the Bushland, Texas USDA-ARS station with co-authors Troy Peters and Steve Evett are developing and testing technologies for center pivots using crop leaf temperature, which eliminates the “hassle factor.”
* Tackling One $melly Problem
Eeew! Concentrated animal feeding operations often struggle with offensive odors. With more manure than a lagoon or budget can handle, what’s a farmer to do? Chuzhao Lin and engineeers at Pro-Act Microbial offer a dollarwise solution: a manure lagoon treatment system that targets the smell, solid problems, and aids in compliance of nutrient management programs.
* Plant Factories Blossom
Although plant factories are nothing new, Eiichi Ono and Hiroyuki Watanabe herald the steady growth, note the ups and downs, and highlight factory projects in Japan. Even if burgeoning Japanese production is due to unique circumstances — land shortage, high labor cost, and more — new technologies hold great promise for many other countries.

INSIDE ASABE

* UC-Blackwelder Tomato Harvester Dedicated as Historic Landmark
The UC-Blackwelder Tomato Harvester was dedicated as the 45th ASABE Historical Landmark on Oct. 7, 2005 at the Joe A. Heidrick, Sr. Western Center for Agricultural Equipment at the University of California, Davis.
* A Word from the President
The Changing Face of Rural America
* Finding Oz
Understanding How ASABE Selects Sites for the AIM
* Community and Section News
NABEC 2005 Highlights, Minnesota Section, Texas Section Meets in Grapevine
* Alpha Epsilon 2005 Initiates
* Young Professionals Community
Why Become Licensed?
* 2005 Member-Get-A-Member Recruiters
* Renew Today!
* Tees Joins Headquarters Standards Department
* Preprofessionals
Undergraduate Poster Competition Ups the Ante, Two New ASABE Student Branches Formed, Preprofessional Council Holds Retreat at Headquarters
* Member News
Prasanta K. Kalita,
Rosana G. Moreira
* In Memoriam
Robert E. Skinner,
Paul A. Crawford Jr.,
George B. Duke,
Kenneth A. Jordan
* Welcome New Members

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