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EPN Breakfast Event- Tuesday, November 12, 2024: Inaugural Ohio Soil Health Week: Celebrating healthy soils for environmental and human health
professor of soil fertility and nutrient management, SENR, reviews the mechanics of healthy soils. 8:40 a.m. ... Dr. Manbir Rakkar is an assistant professor of soil fertility and nutrient management in the School of ... exacerbate soil erosion and the leaching and runoff of fertilizers 2,3. Here in Ohio, we are lucky to have ...
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Cover Crop Considerations in the Dry Ohio Conditions
decomposes. An increase in organic matter improves soil quality and serves as a nutrient source for soil ... microbes, contributing to an increase in overall soil health and fertility. Bodyguard In times of drought, ... increased soil organic matter improves water-holding capacity. Research has found that greater amounts of ...
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Celebrate National Nematode Day and Collect a Soil Sample for SCN Testing
root-knot nematode, lesion nematode, and reniform nematode – pose to our crops. For more detailed ... Awareness for Action Awareness is the first step toward effective management. The SCN Coalition emphasizes ... soil testing this autumn. Free SCN Soil Testing With funding from the Ohio Soybean Council and in ...
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Phosphorous Phield Day
https://agcrops.osu.edu/events/phosphorous-phield-day
required – Wayne SWCD (330) 263-5376. With insights from over 45 years of phosphorous fertilizer research ... management practices to keep nutrients working for us in growing crops rather than against us as ... from Conservation Ditches on farm fields as a soil amendment to reduce chemical fertilizer use and ...
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Manure Application to Parched Soil
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2024-32/manure-application-parched-soil
notorious for soil cracks. In these instances, tillage is considered the best management practice before ... the nutrients, the extremely dry soils will cause excessive wear on shovels and coulters. It might be ... producers applying manure to farm fields need to take extra caution to prevent liquid manure following soil ...
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Wheat Planting When The Soil Is Dry
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2024-32/wheat-planting-when-soil-dry
may be concerned about delayed germination; however, our research over the past three years has shown ... For the germination process to begin, wheat seeds need to imbibe (take in) water. With dry soil ... but only by 10-15% compared to the optimum planting date timeframe. This year, with dry soil, farmers ...
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Green Fields Green Dollars Episode 2 is out now!
Clint Schroeder, Farm Business Analysis Program Manager, episode two focuses on the economics of cover ... Farm Management ...
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Lep Monitoring Network – Final Report on the Fall Armyworm: Update # 24
This past week was our 24 th and final week of monitoring for Ohio pests at the Lep Network. To ... round out our weekly newsletters, we will finish up reports on our 8 th week of reporting county ... this will be our final Lep Network Report for the 2024 season. While we are closing out reports here at ...
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EPN Breakfast Event- Tuesday, October 8, 2024: Our Minds Matter: Enhancing climate resilience skills and well-being for environmental students and professionals
helping them adjust our ecosystems, infrastructure, and communities effectively while managing work ... stress, anxiety, and pressures. Our goal is to limit burnout among all professionals, including mid-career ... Skills to heal our communities and ecosystems as annual temperatures rise. Climate anxiety, also known as ...
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Hurricane Helene Howls
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2024-34/hurricane-helene-howls
page. For a more detailed look at conditions and resources, visit our Drought Response Page or for the ...