Cooperative Extension Service Publications

New Mexico State University (NMSU) Cooperative Extension Service’s (CES) publications provide practical, research-based information written for a general audience in the form of how-to Guides, Circulars, Annual Data Reports, Task Force Reports, and Linebery Policy Center Reports.

Extension Guides: Free-distribution publications, designed to be brief, single concept pieces that can be updated frequently. They are generally written for a non-technical, lay audience.

Extension Circulars: Free-distribution publications with more stable content and more detailed than guides.

Annual Data Reports: Contain the results of yearly insect censuses, economic cost-and-return analyses, or other data collection. They make quantitative data not yet compiled into larger studies available to producers, agents, and specialists.

Task Force Reports: Free-distribution publications that report commissioned studies or the efforts undertaken by interdisciplinary task forces.

Linebery Policy Center Reports: Provide policy analysis that advocates for the beneficial use of natural resources.

Categories

Publications cover a variety of topics, which are organized under 15 general categories:

• Agricultural Mechanics and Engineering
• Agronomy
• Clothing
• Dairy
• Economics
• Family Development
• Family Resource Management
• Food and Nutrition
• Health
• Horticulture
• Livestock and Range
• Water
• Weather & Climate