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Dairy Farm Herd Manager
Rogue Creamery, a dairy farm and creamery known for its award winning cheese located in Southern Oregon, has an opening for a Herdsman/Dairy manager to help oversee the care of over 100 dairy cows. This position is perfect for a recent college graduate th ...
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Winding Creek Internships
Winding Creek Equestrian Sports Center, a small Co-op boarding facility located in Johnstown, Ohio, is seeking 6 student interns for the 2015-16 school year and summer of 2016. All the barn staff work other full-time jobs and commit to part-time hours at ...
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Watch Wheat for Head Scab and Cereal Leaf Beetle
We are now well into the late-heading and early-flowering growth stages, and understandably, folks are concerned about head scab and vomitoxin. Questions keep coming in about applying fungicides for scab control, particularly when and whether a fungicide ...
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Wheat Flowering Growth Stage
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-14/wheat-flowering-growth-stage
Wheat continues to go through the heading and flowering growth stages across central and northern Ohio. Depending on the weather and the variety, flowering usually occurs about 3-5 days after full head emergence (Feekes 10.5) – earlier under warmer condit ...
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Corn Planting Nearing Completion – Time to Troubleshoot Emergence Problems
According to the USDA/NASS (http://www.nass.usda.gov/) for the week ending May 24, corn was 87 percent planted, which was 21 percent ahead of last year and 17 percent ahead of the five-year average. Across the state, corn is at a range of growth stages. S ...
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Purple and Yellow Corn, What is Going On?
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-14/purple-and-yellow-corn-what-going
Corn seedlings often turn yellow (due to low nitrogen uptake and/or limited chlorophyll synthesis) or purple (reduced root development) under cool, wet conditions. Some hybrids are more likely to increase anthocyanin (purple pigment) content when plants a ...
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Wheat Disease Update: The Week of May 18 2015
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-13/wheat-disease-update-week-may-18-2015
The wheat crop progressed considerably over the last week and is now heading-out in some fields. In fact, some fields in southern Ohio and even fields planted early or with early-maturing varieties in the central and northern parts of the state are at the ...
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Wheat Heading Growth Stage
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-13/wheat-heading-growth-stage
After seemingly being behind throughout the month of April, the wheat crop in Ohio “changed gears” over the last week and is now heading-out in some areas – do not be deceived by the fact that plants still look short in some fields. Heading will continue ...
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How is that stand?
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-13/how-stand
Some soybeans have been planted and issues have already been reported. The most common symptom is spotty areas around the field with large skips or limited emergence. Take a garden trowel and dig up a few places and try to find the seed that was placed ...
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Evaluating Soybean Stand
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-13/evaluating-soybean-stand
Soybean planting is well underway throughout Ohio. The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service reported 23% of the soybean acres were planted by May 10 (and many more acres were planted between May 10 and 18) up from 13% at the same time last year. ...