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Central Ohio Corn Field Day
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-27/central-ohio-corn-field-day
The Central Ohio Corn Field Day will be held Thursday, September 3 beginning at 5:00 pm at Ohio Foundation Seeds located at 11491 Foundation Road in Hartford, Ohio. There is no charge to attend this field day. For more information including topics, spea ...
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Soil Health Workshop Series
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-27/soil-health-workshop-series
OSU Extension Champaign County and the Champaign Soil and Water Conservation District are offering a Soil Health Workshop Series beginning in September. This workshop is designed for farmers interested in learning more about soil health and fertility and ...
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Managing Alfalfa Stands Damaged by Waterlogging
We are receiving reports and have personally observed fields of alfalfa injured by the excessive soil wetness the first half of this growing season. Generally, waterlogging injury appears as stunting with a general yellowing of the entire plant, a result ...
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2015 Manure Science Review
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-23/2015-manure-science-review
The 2015 Ohio Manure Science Review (MSR) will be held in Darke County on Wednesday August 12 at Mississinawa Valley High School, 10480 Staudt Road, in Union City, Ohio, close to the border with Indiana. The MSR is an educational program designed for tho ...
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Farm Pesticide Collections
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-23/farm-pesticide-collections
The Ohio Department of Agriculture is sponsoring a collection for farmers to dispose of unwanted pesticides. The collection is only for farm-related chemicals so household or non-farm pesticides will not be accepted. The 2015 dates and locations are: Maho ...
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Residual Herbicide Issues – were they applied, are they working, what to do
While a variety of rainfall and soil moisture conditions can be found around Ohio, a shortage of rain following application of residual herbicides seems to be common. We are hearing about weeds emerging early in the season even where residual herbicides ...
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In An Instant: Buried Alive
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-14/instant-buried-alive
The ABC network television show In An Instantwill be replaying the Buried Alive episode on Saturday, May 30 at 9:00 pm. This episode features Arick Baker, a 23 year old farmer from Iowa, who was completely buried in his grain bin for over two hours and wa ...
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Early Insect and Slug Concerns
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-13/early-insect-and-slug-concerns
For a couple of weeks we have been warning about the possibility of black cutworms based on adult catches reported by surrounding states. We have begun to observe some minor feeding on corn, suggesting that the larvae are there and the worst of the damag ...
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Pollinators and Planting
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-11/pollinators-and-planting
Beekeepers in Ohio again suffered substantial losses of colonies over the exceptionally long and cold winter of 2014-2015. Here in Wooster we lost more than half of our colonies, and beekeepers around the state are reporting levels of winter kill as high ...
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Cold Weather and Wheat Injury
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-10/cold-weather-and-wheat-injury
Last week, temperatures in northern Ohio dipped below freezing prompting some concerns about possible injury to the wheat crop. The effect of cold weather depends on the wheat growth stage. Maximum resistance to cold weather occurs in December-February. A ...