Volume 64, No. 5 May 2006 NEW Floral Design 2: Principles and Practices Blue catalog numbers hyperlink to our e-commerce store NEW MDS642 is a PowerPoint CD-ROM that is composed of several sections. Design principles with script The color wheel, with specific examples of color combinations Techniques, including wiring, taping, working with floral foam, packaging and transporting designs, and more Container styles and designs that work in them Identification of tools and supplies quizzing sections are provided News and Notes Inside this issue Contact the Staff 7 CDE Results 8 Calendar 10 Tear Sheet 11 Feed Prices 12 Step-by-step instructions (including supply lists) are shown for a line design in a coffee mug a triangle design a carnation corsage a round centerpiece an evergreen wreath Floral Design 2: Principles and Practices contains over 600 PowerPoint slides and sells for $60.00. KMc Pepper Mariachi All-America Selections May 2006 News and Notes 1
Introduction to Arboriculture CD-ROMs These interactive CD-ROMs were developed as an educational resource for arborists. In the horticulture or forestry classroom, they will have the same benefits: NEW System requirements: Windows 2000 or XP; Pentium III or better; 24X CD-ROM or better; sound Instructional strategies that simulate job tasks A high level of interactivity Self-paced instruction (can accommodate multiple users) Emphasis on visuals, including video and other graphics Digital audio that enhances text A system of instant feedback that engages the learner Quiz questions Glossary of key terms with definitions and pronunciations Introduction to Arboriculture: Pruning Pruning has these objectives: 1. Understand the importance of establishing pruning objectives before beginning to prune. 2. Describe how branches are attached and how that affects the location of a proper pruning cut. 3. Understand how timing can affect pruning decisions. 4. Describe the various tools used to prune trees and choose the appropriate tool for the job. 5. Teach others about the harmful effects of improper pruning, including topping. Pruning contains lessons on how to prune trees for tree health and human safety. Lesson one introduces the principles of pruning. Lesson two covers practices and strategies. CD1008 sells for $69.95. Introduction to Arboriculture: Tree Identification and Selection Tree Identification and Selection has these objectives: 1. Understand how all plants are classified and how scientific names are based on the classification system. 2. Explain what scientific names are, why they are used, and how they are written. 3. Explain how plant characteristics, such as growth habit, texture, and color, can be used in tree identification. 4. Describe how leaf arrangement is used to help identify trees. 5. Become familiar with the various leaf shapes and types of leaf margins, bases, and apices. 6. Learn to use bud and twig characteristics to identify trees without leaves. Tree Identification and Selection has three major sections identification principles, common genera, and selection. CD1009 sells for $69.95. Introduction to Arboriculture: Diagnosis and Disorders Diagnosis and Disorders has these objectives: 1. Understand the principles of a systematic approach to the plant diagnostic process. 2. Explain how stress can weaken a tree, predisposing it to secondary problems. 3. Learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of tree disorders. There are three lessons on this CD. Lesson one is on general diagnosis. Lesson two is on abiotic disorders. And lesson three is on biotic disorders. CD1010 sells for $69.95. KMc May 2006 News and Notes 2
New Livestock Judging Materials Available! NEW Just in time for the livestock judging season we have added five new CD-ROMs. These materials were created by Dr. Scott Schaake from Kansas State University and are excellent resources for training a livestock judging team. Read each product description for more details of material covered on each CD-ROM. NRW Practice Judging Livestock MDS150 Practice Judging Livestock is an onscreen resource that utilizes both PowerPoint and Word to instruct students how to judge cattle, swine, and sheep classes. The CD-ROM includes four heifer classes, four steer classes, one bull class, two gilt classes, two market hog classes, one Duroc barrow class, and six market lamb classes. Each class includes a side view, front view, rear view, and top view for swine and sheep. At the conclusion of each class are the official placing and cuts. Oral reasons can be printed as a Word document for each class. One heifer class includes data and a scenario to consider when placing the animals. The image quality is excellent and is appropriate for high school and college livestock evaluation training. Practice Judging Livestock sells for $49.95. Evaluating Beef Cattle MDS151 Evaluating Beef Cattle is an onscreen resource that utilizes both PowerPoint and Word to instruct students how to properly evaluate bulls, steers, and heifers. The CD-ROM includes two PowerPoint presentations and five resource documents composed in Word. The introductory presentation includes a teacher guide, or script, to instruct students on points of evaluation, desirable and undesirable characteristics with example images, and a wealth of beef cattle judging information. The second presentation includes images of two heifer classes and three steer classes with official placings and cuts. The images are of side, front, and rear views of the animals. The CD-ROM also includes a terminology guide for presenting reasons, an EPD example, data for a heifer class, and reasons for five classes of beef animals. The image quality is excellent and is appropriate for high school and college instruction. Evaluating Beef Cattle sells for $34.95. More available on the next page... May 2006 News and Notes 3
More Livestock Judging Materials Practice Judging Beef Cattle MDS152 Practice Judging Beef Cattle is an onscreen resource that features five heifer classes, four steer classes, and one bull class. The Simmental heifer class includes data and a scenario to consider when evaluating the animals. All classes have official placings and cuts. Reasons for each class can be printed from the CD-ROM in Word. The practice beef cattle classes are built in PowerPoint and have excellent image quality. Animals can be evaluated from the side and rear. This resource is appropriate for high school and college instruction. Practice Judging Beef Cattle sells for $29.95. Practice Judging Swine MDS153 Practice Judging Swine is an onscreen resource that features two market hog classes, one crossbred breeding gilt class, one Hampshire gilt class, and one Duroc barrow class. The swine can be viewed from the side, top, and rear for appropriate evaluation. All classes have official placings and cuts. Reasons for each class can be printed from the CD-ROM in Word. The practice swine judging classes are built in PowerPoint and have excellent image quality. This resource is appropriate for high school and college instruction. Practice Judging Swine sells for $24.95. Practice Judging Market Lambs MDS154 Practice Judging Market Lambs is an onscreen resource that includes seven market lamb classes. The lambs can be evaluated from the side, front, rear, and top. All classes have official placings, cuts, and printable reasons composed in Word. The practice judging market lambs classes are built in PowerPoint and have excellent image quality. This CD-ROM is appropriate for high school and college instruction. Practice Judging Market Lambs sells for $24.95. May 2006 News and Notes 4
New Horse Judging Materials Available! NEW New to ITCS Instructional Materials are two CD-ROMs to aid in the instruction of horse conformation and judging. These materials were created by Julie Wolf-Voge from Kansas State University and are excellent resources for training a horse judging team. Read each product description for more details of material covered on each CD-ROM. NRW Horse Conformation MDS155 Horse Conformation is comprised of two presentations built in PowerPoint to instruct students how to evaluate horses and identify them by colors and markings. The evaluation presentation covers balance, quality, muscling, and horse structure. The CD- ROM also includes images of acceptable and unacceptable characteristics. The color and marking presentation identifies the different colors and terms used to describe horses when giving oral reasons. Images are utilized to distinguish between the colors and unique markings. This resource is appropriate for high school and college instruction. Horse Conformation sells for $24.95. Practice Judging Halter MDS156 Practice Judging Halter is an onscreen instructional material that includes five classes. The classes include yearling Quarter Horse stallions, yearling Quarter Horse fillies, two-year-old Quarter Horse geldings, aged Quarter Horse geldings, and yearling stallions. The horses can be evaluated from the side, front, and rear. All classes have official placings, cuts, and printable reasons composed in Word. The practice judging halter classes are built in PowerPoint and have excellent image quality. This CD-ROM is appropriate for high school and college instruction. Practice Judging Halter sells for $24.95. May 2006 News and Notes 5
News from WIU Collegiate FFA Chapter Spring has sprung and things have picked up for the WIU Collegiate FFA chapter. With the arrival of the spring semester at WIU, came more activities for the members of CFFA to emerge themselves in. In continuing their service to the Section XI FFA, CFFA hosted the Section Public Speaking contest on February 23 rd. The event went smoothly and the turn out was great. The contest couldn t have been successful without all the help provided by the Agriculture Department faculty and other members of the agriculture communities displayed through their willingness to help judge the event. The individuals receiving first and second place in their respected areas went on to compete in the District contest also hosted by WIU CFFA chapter on April 5 th. The District contest was also a success. The members of the Collegiate FFA chapters do a lot of preparation for the Public Speaking contest. The members are responsible for contacting nine judges, preparing programs, reserving rooms, and registering each individual for the contest. When the contest begins, the very busy members set aside their class work and jobs aside to escort students to their appropriate rooms, and tally judging cards. However, the members of CFFA sacrifice their time to give back to the organization that provided them with so much during their years in high school. As the flowers began to bloom, CFFA members were setting up and preparing for the Invitational Agriculture Mechanics contest that took place on April 12 th. With the help of the Ag Mech Club, members set up stations for each area of the contest including, electricity, ag power, carpentry, welding, and surveying. Teams from all over the state were invited to attend the event. Also, Section XI held their Ag Mechanics contest in conjunction with the invitational. East Richmond went home with the title of the First Place Team Overall. CFFA members were responsible for the scoring of the test, registration, and provided plaques and ribbons for the teams and individuals excelling in their respective fields. As the spring semester comes to an end the CFFA has a lot on their plate. On April 21 st they will be hosting an Invitational Horticulture Contest in conjunction with the WIU Horticulture Club. Also, on May 3 rd the CFFA chapter will be hosting the Agriculture Olympics. The Ag Olympics is a fun and competitive way for all of WIU s agriculture organizations to get together. The entire department is looking forward to the event, and expectations are high. As a new group of officers take their roles in the WIU Collegiate FFA chapter, a new set of challenges lay ahead of them, and only time will tell what the fall semester has in store for the WIU CFFA. May 2006 News and Notes 6
CONGRATULATIONS!!! WE DID IT. On behalf of the IAVAT Board, I would like to send special congratulations to the Building Fund Committee members for their help in retiring the mortgage for the FFA Center. Don Bumphrey s committee is to be commended for all of their efforts to help see that the Center was paid off in just six years. $1.2 million dollars ago, this seemed to be a very daunting, and in some eyes, an impossible task. Due to the efforts of businesses, individuals, FFA chapters across the state and the FFA Foundation, who forgave the rest of the start-up loan, we can proudly say that the building is debt free. Each chapter should have received a letter from the committee in the past couple of weeks about the building. In the letter, you were notified as to where your chapter stood in relation to the donor board and how much it would take to move to the next level. We will continue to take contributions for the FFA Center in the future if your chapter would like to continue to move to the next level. All money received will be used to finance a building maintenance fund for future repairs and improvements. Anyone wishing to still purchase a brick for the patio of the Center must do so by no later than the end of June. After that date, bricks will no longer be sold. Again, congratulations and thank you to everyone who helped with and made donations to the Capital Campaign Project over the last six years. The Illinois FFA Center is a tremendous asset for all of the entities that uses it. Larry D. Littlefield IAVAT President Contact the Staff Orders (800) 345-6087 FAX (217) 333-3917 pubsplus@uiuc.edu www.aces.uiuc.edu/itcs/im Online ordering www.pubsplus.uiuc.edu Taft House Fax (217) 333-0005 Ken McPheeters, Plant Sciences kmcpheet@uiuc.edu (217) 244-5186 Nick Wherley, Animal Sciences wherley@uiuc.edu (217) 244-5170 Dave Wilson, Agricultural Mechanics dkwilson@uiuc.edu (217) 244-5171 May 2006 News and Notes 7
26 Schools, 20 Teams, 117 Individuals 2006 State Horticulture CDE Results April 25, 2006 Team Score Breakdown Individual Score Breakdown Superior 2897.5 and Above Superior 618.5 and Above Blue 2410-2807.5 Blue 473.5-618 Red 2051-2309.5 Red 358.5-472 White 1875 and Below White 375.5 and Below Superior Teams Other Top Teams Paxton-Buckley-Loda 3151 Kaneland 2807.5 Glenbrook South 3066.5 Highland 2604 Nashville 2897.5 West Richland 2475.5 Seneca 2410 Top Ten Individuals Tyler Johnson, Kaneland, 730 John Carson, Paxton-Buckley-Loda, 703.5 Bridgette Moen, Paxton-Buckley-Loda, 701.5 Lori Korda, Waubonsie Valley, 654.5 Christine Park, Glenbrook South, 647.5 Heather Pierson, Kaneland, 631.5 Lauren Peretz, Glenbrook South, 630 Eric Malick, Nashville, 625.5 Emma Steger, Glenbrook South, 622.5 Charles Taylor, Kaneland, 618.5 94 Schools, 86 Teams, 364 Individuals 2006 State Dairy Cattle CDE April 25, 2006 Team Score Breakdown Individual Score Breakdown Superior 1134-1186 Superior 392-416 Blue 1046-1133 Blue 347-390 Red 965-1043 Red 308-346 White 797 & Above White 172 & Above Superior Teams Superior Individuals Prairie Central 1186 Brian Krug, Dwight, 416 Wesclin 1181 Travis Kuhn, Okawville, 414 Nashville 1167 Lyle Schaffer, Prairie Central Jr, 409 Prairie Central Jr 1165 Brandon Wobbe, Wesclin, 402 Cowden-Herrick 1158 Nick Harre, Nashville, 401 Dwight 1155 Erin Petersen, Prairie Central, 400 Pontiac 1152 Jessica Langholf, Dakota, 399 Eureka 1145 Justin Kilgus, Prairie Central, 399 New Athens 1143 Tyson Robertson, Cowden-Herrick, 396 Ridgeview 1134 Betsy Zimmerman, Eureka, 392 Jessy Huelsmann, Wesclin, 392 Chad Malick, Nashville, 392 Nick Brown, Cowden-Herrick, 392 May 2006 News and Notes 8
2006 State Livestock CDE April 25, 2006 136 Schools, 132 Teams, 591 Individuals Team Score Breakdown Individual Score Breakdown Superior 1017 and Above Superior 349 and Above Blue 939-1015 Blue 306-348 Red 850-937 Red 266-305 White 847 and Below White 265 and Below Superior Teams Superior Individuals Carlinville 1046 Monica Yoder, Edinburg, 356 Taylorville 1043 Travis Heins, Prairie Central, 355 Newton 1036 Jordan McGrew, Bushnell-PC, 353 Woodland 1029 Sammy Fortner, Taylorville, 353 Eureka 1026 Jody Kabat, Woodlawn, 352 Ridgeview 1023 Chris Cassady, Woodland, 352 Olney 1021 Jacob Caveny, Carlinville, 351 Fieldcrest 1021 Justin Fehr, Eureka, 351 Edinburg 1017 Lindsay Norris, Waltonville, 351 Benton 1017 Justin Gesell, Benton, 349 Katie Stephens, Edinburg 349 Sam Greenwalt, Carlinville, 349 Tyler Babbs, Taylorville, 349 May 2006 News and Notes 9
ITCS Instructional Materials University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ORDERS Phone 800 345-6087 Fax 217 333-3917 Resources for agricultural education News and Notes is published 5 times annually (September, November, January, March, and May) by ITCS Instructional Materials at the University of Illinois. Articles submitted for publication should conform to News and Notes specifications (available on request) and be clearly identified. Articles submitted by the 20 th day of the month preceding each issue will be considered for publication in the next issue of News and Notes. For additional information, contact News and Notes Editor, ITCS Instructional Materials, University of Illinois, (217) 244-5170. Dates to Remember 2006 Calendar of Events May 9 State Ag Business Management Career Development Event 16 State Agricultural Mechanics Career Development Event, University of Illinois 29 Memorial Day, University of Illinois holiday June 13-15 Illinois FFA Convention, Prairie Capital Convention Center, Springfield 20-22 IAVAT Conference, Northfield Inn, Springfield May 2006 News and Notes 10
May 2006 TEAR SHEET Visit www.pubsplus.uiuc.edu to order items on our secure server (credit cards and school purchase orders accepted; prices subject to change) CD-ROMs 69.95 CD1008 Introduction to Arboriculture: Pruning 69.95 CD1009 Introduction to Arboriculture: Tree Identification and Selection 69.95 CD1010 Introduction to Arboriculture: Diagnosis and Disorders 49.95 MDS150 Practice Judging Livestock 34.95 MDS151 Evaluating Beef Cattle 29.95 MDS152 Practice Judging Beef Cattle 24.95 MDS153 Practice Judging Swine 24.95 MDS154 Practice Judging Market Lambs 24.95 MDS155 Horse Conformation 24.95 MDS156 Practice Judging Halter 60.00 MDS642 Floral Design 2: Principles and Practices Name Date P.O. School Address Zip Billing F.E.I. No. or S.S. No. Phone (For schools or companies) (For individuals) Minimum amount for a charge order (including shipping) is $10.00. Checks should be made payable to the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS but sent to Information Technology and Communication Services, 1917 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820. For orders only call (800) 345-6087 or (217) 333-3871 or FAX (217) 333-3917 or send e-mail to pubsplus@uiuc.edu. We accept VISA and MasterCard. *If payment is sent with this order, please include the following for shipping: Subtotal For orders less than $5 add $2.50 For orders from $5 to $19.99 add $3.50 Shipping* For orders from $20 to $99.99 add $6.50 For orders from $100 to $199.99 add $9.00 For each additional $100 add $3.50 TOTAL May 2006 News and Notes 11
Monthly Feed Prices Kinds of Feed February 27 April 28 Corn, No. 2, shelled, bu. 1 2.12 2.18 Corn, ground, shelled, bu. 2.26 2.32 Grain sorghum, bu. 2 2.12 2.42 Grain sorghum, ground, bu. 2.26 2.56 Oats, bu. 3 1.87 1.88 Oats, ground, bu. 1.97 1.98 Wheat, bu. 3.42 3.22 Soybean meal, 48%, ton 175.80 175.45 Corn silage, ton 4 13.38 13.76 Hay, alfalfa, baled, ton 5 127.50 127.50 Hay, other, baled, ton 5 127.50 125.00 Straw, oat or wheat, ton 5 90.00 90.00 1 Based on prices at country elevators in central Illinois. 2 Based on prices at country elevators in southern Illinois. 3 Based on prices at CBOT. 4 Estimated silage value as opportunity cost of harvesting crop as grain. 5 Based on prices direct off the farm in central Illinois. May 2006 News and Notes 12