Volume 46, Number 5 (2008)
Editor's Page
Teach Your Students Well
Laura Hoelscher
Commentary
A Kansas and Alaska Example of Extension Opportunities in Emergency Preparedness
Stephen C. Brown and Jennifer Ploeger
Feature Articles
Virtual Communities of Practice: A 21st Century Method for Learning, Programming, and Developing Professionally
Patricia M. Sobrero and Carla Gale Craycraft
Principles of Effective Behavior Change: Application to Extension Family Educational Programming
Clara Pratt and Sally Bowman
Improving Agricultural Profitability Through an Income Opportunities for Rural Areas Program
Amber Lockawich Hancharick and Nancy Ellen Kiernan
Using Workshops to Educate Landowners About Developing Natural Resource Enterprises to Diversify Income on the Family Farm
W Daryl Jones, Katherine M. Jacobs, Greg K. Yarrow, and Rebecca McPeake
Youth Program Risk Management: A Case Study of the 4-H PetPALS Program
Lucinda Miller and Ryan J. Schmiesing
Methamphetamine Prevention Education: Extension Responds to a National Issue
Kirk A. Astroth and Mike Vogel
Local Foods: Estimating Capacity
David Timmons, Qingbin Wang, and Dan Lass
Ag Resource Tools & Media Coverage: A Study of Newspaper Coverage of Cotton in Texas
Ashlee Vinyard, Cindy Akers, Judy Oskam, and David L. Doerfert
Research in Brief
The Need for Predatory Mortgage Education: Expert Views
Luke V. Erickson, Lucy Delgadillo, and Kathleen W. Piercy
Increasing Entrepreneurship in Agriculture in an Economically Depressed Region
Tom Campbell and Hilton Barrett
Economics of Variety Selection for Cotton Cultivars in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas
Luis A. Ribera and Manda Cattaneo
Ohio Township Trustees' Land Use Planning Knowledge and Practices: A Statewide Survey to Better Target Programmatic Resources
David Civittolo and Gregory A. Davis
Ranch Management Practices of Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) and Non-BQA Certified Producers in Montana
Lisa Duffey, John Paterson, Marc King, and Kelsey Rolfe
Effect of Age-at-Weaning and Post-Weaning Management on Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Charolais-Angus Cross Steers
John F. Grimes, Francis L. Fluharty, Thomas B. Turner, and Henry N. Zerby
Perceptions of Retinal Imaging Technology for Verifying the Identity of 4-H Ruminant Animals
Brian M. Howell, Clinton P. Rusk, Christine R. Blomeke, and Renee K. McKee
Ideas at Work
A Workshop About Land-Use Decision-Making in the Context of Community/Societal Values
Brian D. Lee and Barry W. Kew
Family and Consumer Sciences--A Valuable Resource to Public Schools in Parent and Community Engagement
Jean Rodman, Connie Sheppard, and Janet Black
Farming Together: Developing the Next Generation of Management
Cole Ehmke and Alan Miller
Measuring Impacts in Risk Management Education--The Beehive Master Beef Manager Program
CK Chapman, DR ZoBell, EB Godfrey, and D Feuz
SERVE Model: A Hands-On Approach to Volunteer Administration
Kimberly S. Whitson
Tools of the Trade
Enhancing Extension Employee Coaching: Navigating the Triangular Relationship
Nancy Franz and Robin Weeks
Evaluating Board Leaders
James Barnes, Dora Ann Hatch, and Glenn Dixon
Program Review--Intentional Harmony: Managing Work and Life
Leah Y. Hughes and Robert J. Fetsch
Stakeholder Education About the Designation of Coastal Zones for the Protection of the Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris): The Manatee Awareness and Protection Resource (MAPR) Web Site
Robert Swett, Alisa Coffin, Charles Sidman, and David Fann