09/13/07 Vogel building naming; updated cow-calf guide

Washington Ag September 13, 2007 Washington State University's Pullman campus plant biosciences building will be officially named the Orville A. Vogel Plant Biosciences Building at a public ceremony this Saturday September 15th. The event is scheduled for 3 p.m. Vogel served as a USDA Agriculture Research Service scientist and a WSU faculty member from 1931 to 1972. He and his wheat breeding team developed the first commercial semi-dwarf wheat varieties and complementary production systems in the Pacific Northwest. His work with dwarf wheat varieties is widely recognized for laying the foundation for the Green Revolution in developing countries. The Cow-Calf Management guide and Cattle Producer's Library is a perennially popular reference for Western cattle producers. The University of Idaho's Benton Glaze says the handbook has gone through its annual update by a team of state extension beef specialists from 12 Western states. Glaze: "The group comes together and review the fact sheets and finds those that need to be revised. Then we also add news ones and take the ones out that are no longer applicable." Among the new fact sheets added this year are fluid and electrolyte therapy in calves and concentrated-animal operations for cow-calf enterprises. Call 208-885-6345 to buy the handbook and CD-ROM or just the CD. I'm Bob Hoff.