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Efficient Lawn Care Practices to Help Protect Ohio’s Waterways
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5812
products. Read the label before purchasing lawn fertilizers to ensure they contain the nutrients the soil ... algae and water quality. Fertilizer nutrients are especially harmful. Ohio needs everyone’s help to ... minimized by reducing excessive nutrients in the water. Just as fertilizers aid the growth of grass and ...
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Nutrient Management of Forage Crops Intended for Hay
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0109
hay fertility livestock nutrient management grass legume soil testing Agriculture and Natural ... Nutrient management of grass, legume, or mixed legume grass hay crops begins with soil testing for pH and ... sample year to the next, allowing farmers to track soil fertility changes based on management practices. ...
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Bumble Bee Pollination in Tomato Greenhouses
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-0092
Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology; The Ohio State University Bumble bees are managed ... bees are better suited for indoor pollinating than the more commonly managed honey bee because of their ... managed bees for the purpose of supplying pollination services to crop systems (Strange, 2015). The two ...
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Purchasing Nutrients for Hay and Forage Crops
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-7
can best utilize nutrients, managing your nitrogen source, and comparing the total cost of fertilizer ... compare single nutrient fertilizers. Calculating Fertilizer Cost Based on Soil-Test Results Rarely do ... the nutrient level of the soil and the amounts of lime and fertilizers necessary to achieve ...
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Corn Silage Harvest Safety Should Be Priority One
Jason Hartschuh, Assistant Professor, OSU Extension Field Specialist, Dairy Management and ...
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Soil Sampling to Develop Nutrient Recommendations
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/AGF-513
fertility program starts with a representative soil sample that is used to develop nutrient recommendations. ... Grid Sampling Zone Management Sampling Strengths Non-mobile nutrients P, K and pH Soil test levels ... zone management algae growth fertile soil no-till systems composite sample crop debris Agriculture and ...
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Cicada Killer Wasp
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ENT-63
prefer to dig new nesting holes in full sun, where well-drained soils exist and vegetation is sparse. ... killer females can cause unsightly soil mounds, often displacing several pounds of soil while tunneling. ... Each female digs an individual burrow 6–10 inches deep and one-half inch wide. The soil is dislodged by ...
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Sarah Ruth
https://hcs.osu.edu/our-people/sarah-ruth
Research Focus: My research is focused on resistance to bacterial spot (Xanthomonas spp.) in processing ... I love research on the interface between plant pathology and breeding. Coming to OSU gave me the ...
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Managing Marestail in No-till Soybeans
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-72
Bill Johnson, Purdue University Guiding Principles of Marestail Management Combination of fall and ... glyphosate plus ALS inhibitor. Revised 10/19 Ag Crops and Livestock Farm Management marestail managing ...
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Phosphorus Nutrient Management for Yield and Reduced P Loss at Edge of Field
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/agf-509
(i.e., blind inlets) to reduce soil and nutrient losses. No application of P containing fertilizer or ... Professor and State Specialist in Soil Fertility, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio ... organic (i.e., manure, biosolids, compost) nutrient sources to frozen or snow-covered soil unless applied ...