Mike Rankin

1 week ago | creativepro.com | Mike Rankin

CreativePro Week is about more than just learning and connecting, it's also about creating, as these attendee photos show. CreativePro Week is about more than just learning and connecting with your community, it’s also about creating, of course! Each day we kicked off the proceedings with hands-on fun in the Camp CreativePro Arts & Crafts Room, and we also hosted two photo walks for attendees to wander through the desert surroundings and capture what they saw.

1 week ago | creativepro.com | Mike Rankin

Learn how to remove a color from a character style in InDesign, so that the text takes on the color information from the underlying paragraph style. In this InDesign how-to video, Mike Rankin shows the secret trick needed to remove a color from a character style. This is done so that the color information will come from the underlying paragraph style.

1 week ago | on.hoards.com | Mike Rankin

Sorghum species are prominent in providing extra summer forage for grazing or mechanically harvesting. Typically, we hear about farmers planting either forage sorghum or sorghum-sudangrass. Sudangrass is more often an afterthought, but that may be a mistake, according to Mary Drewnoski. The University of Nebraska beef systems specialist notes that sudangrass can be a great option for summer grazing.

3 weeks ago | creativepro.com | Mike Rankin

Learn how to modify a photo in a PDF with a little help from Photoshop. Once the Photoshop file is modified and saved, it’s automatically updated in the PDF. In this Acrobat how-to video, Mike Rankin shows how to make modifications to a photo in a PDF, with a little help from Photoshop. He demos choosing to make edits in Photoshop, via the edit option within Acrobat. Once the edits are made, Mike saves the file and it’s replaced and ready to go within the PDF.

4 weeks ago | hayandforage.com | Mike Rankin

Everyone has their opinions on how to best seed cool-season grasses and legumes for successful establishment. Variables include factors such as planting rate, type of drill or seeder, weed control method, companion crop (or not), and seeding time. It’s this last factor we will focus on here. In many regions, late-summer and fall seedings are the norm and preferred time for forage establishment. If you’re in that camp, this article won’t be of much interest.