List
Serve Overview
This Pacific Northwest e-mail / Internet
list server on direct seed cropping systems offers an exciting communications
link on new information resources, events, research results, technology
innovations and experiences from the dryland production regions
of the Inland Northwest. It will also help provide access to direct
seed systems technology from other regions and countries that may
be adapted to Northwest production conditions. Messages will be
received by e-mail and stored on the list server Internet site for
later access by those added to the list over time.
This communications network was established
to help accelerate the development and grower adaptation of direct
seed cropping systems in the dryland production regions of the Inland
Northwest - - to improve production efficiency, profitability and
competitiveness in global markets, to enhance the productivity of
our cropland resources, and to increase protection the environment.
The list server is part of a PNW technology
access project by the PNW STEEP Extension Cropping Systems Specialists
Team under the STEEP (Solutions To Environmental and Economic Problems)
research and educational program on conservation tillage systems
in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. It is also facilitated as part
of a STEEP project on building a Northwest Coalition on Direct Seed
Cropping Systems Research.
The initial address list (Oct. 1999)
included over 230 county/area Ag extension educators, conservation
districts, university and USDA-ARS researchers, extension specialists,
USDA-NRCS staff, PNW grower organizations, growers and Ag industries
representatives from across the dryland cropping areas of the Inland
Northwest. From this initial base network, the list server will
expand to interested growers and other Ag support personnel across
the region.
You
can subscribe through the list server Internet site. Note that
for your e-mail privacy, the list server member list will not be
accessible to anyone except the list server administrator.
All interested growers and Ag support
personnel are encouraged to participate in this new list server.
A stronger communication network and partnership among growers,
researchers, Ag-support groups and agencies, and Ag industry will
greatly accelerate the successful development and grower adaptation
of direct seed systems in the region. For more information on the
list server, contact Don Wysocki, OSU Extension
Soil Scientist, (phone: (451) 278-4186, e-mail: Donald.Wysocki@orst.edu). |
