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Food and Nutrition
2009 USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning
is an invaluable resource for people canning food for the first time as well as for experienced canners. It covers canning equipment, ingredients, and procedures and tells how to achieve safe, high-quality canned products. It includes hundreds of canning recipes for fruits and fruit products, tomatoes and tomato products, vegetables, red meats, poultry, seafoods, and pickles and relishes.
Available soon!
Buy these Guides in bulk packages of 25 per box for $350 per box - $14 each (AIG-539-25) or single copies for $ 18 each (AIG-539), shipping charges are additional. Online Ordering and expanded information for all materials is also available at www.extension.purdue/USDAcanning
Preserving and Storing Foods
As the bounty of our gardens, orchards and farm fields arrives in our homes, many Hoosiers look for ways to preserve the foods that are so abundant now. Purdue Extension has a number of free, online publications that tell you how to freeze, can, dehydrate and store fresh fruits and vegetables.
MyPyramid
materials encourage healthy eatingand adequatephysical
activity, and Purdue Extension is selling English and Spanish printed materials in bulk at a substantial discount. Check out the new items for preschoolers.
Financial Resources
As economic woes continue across Indiana and the nation, citizens can find some sound financial advice in a number of Purdue Extension publications. Here is a sampling:
Where Does Your Money Go?
 is a curriculum on a CD for facilitators who want to help their clients improve their money management practices and achieve financial stability.
CD-CFS-7 $25.00
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For farm families facing tough times, Purdue Extension's Managing Tough Times Web site offers 16 free PDF publications, ranging from income enhancement ideas to negotiating with lenders, from managing family finances to eight publications for hog farmers.
Today's financial turmoil makes it more important than ever to carefully manage your credit. Purdue Extension has 10 fact sheets on the Web about credit management.
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Pork Production
The 2009 Pork Industry  Handbook DVD
includes the 1500+ pages from the handbook, plus video clips, full-color photos, and graphics. Topics covered include swine business and financial management, facilities and equipment information, swine breeding, genetics, nutrition, health, reproduction, and manure management. Also included are more than 30 “how-to” videos covering key issues related to pork production and more than 20 charts and diagrams that you can customize to your own operation.
DVD-PIH-7 $45.00
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Also check out the book-version of the 2009 Pork Industry Handbook
PIH-152 $100.00
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Or the combination Pork Industry Handbook 2009 Package (DVD and book)
PIH-152-A $130.00
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Resources for Teachers
Check out Purdue Extension's K-12 page for materials that teachers can use to meet specific objectives outlined in the Indiana Academic Standards.
Also, look through the resources below.  No Bones About It
is six lessons on DVD and CD designed by experts at eight universities to inspire early teens to become lifelong consumers of calcium-rich foods.
CFS-741 $60.00
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Herschel's World of Economics DVD
Dr. Day helps Herschel, a feisty little puppet dog, learn important economic concepts identified in national and state standards. The DVD contains six, 10-minute video programs and links to an easy-to-use Teacher's Guide.
DVD-KEP-125 $30.00
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