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Workshops to Promote the Use Cover Crops to Improve Soil Health, Water Quality and Yields
CELINA, Ohio – Growers who want to improve soil health, reduce soil erosion and cut down on nutrient losses may want to consider using cover crops such as oilseed radish, cereal rye, or Austrian winter pea and crimson clover, according to a soil expert wi ...
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Late-Season Weed Issues – Are We Having Fun Yet?
According to our weather guru, there is no close precedent for a summer like this in the last 100 years, and I can’t recall a year with this much mid-season rain in my almost 30 years here. This has obviously caused immense problems with post-emergence h ...
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Wet Weather and Late-Season Fungicides
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-22/wet-weather-and-late-season-fungicides
Wet weather is continuing to be a problem throughout the state, and many questions are popping up regarding late-season fungicides. With funding from Ohio Soybean Council, we conducted a “high-input” trial in 2013 (9 locations) and 2014 (7 locations) to ...
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Fungicide Applications Depend on Soybean Growth Stages and Presence of Disease
We have had lots of inquiries this past week on the benefit or lack-there-of from fungicide applications on soybean in Ohio. There are several factors that I have found in the past that can influence this return on investment: growth stage of the plant ...
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Will Persistent Rains Impact Corn Pollination?
According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Ohio/Publications/Crop_Progress_&_Condition/index.asp) for the week ending 7-19-15, 43% of the state’s corn was silking compared to 53% for the 5-y ...
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More on Fungicides and Tank-Mixing with Insecticides
Foliar diseases continue to spread up the corn plant in some fields, so, this may be the year to apply a foliar fungicide to minimize losses due to diseases such as Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB) and Gray Leaf Spot (GLS). Both GLS and NCLB may cause yie ...
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Planting Scabby Wheat
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-21/planting-scabby-wheat
Although scab was not widespread in Ohio this year, there were a few pockets with high levels of the disease in some parts of the state. In addition, persistent rainfall over the last several weeks has caused producers to be concerned about grain quality ...
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“Welcome Back” Square Dance
https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/events/%E2%80%9Cwelcome-back%E2%80%9D-square-dance
Collegiate 4-H is excited to welcome Ohio State students back to campus with the first annual “Welcome Back” Square Dance on September 6, 2013. The square dance will be held in the Ag Admin Auditorium from 6-9 pm. Admission is just $3 per person. Mark you ...
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Buckeyethon
https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/events/buckeyethon
BuckeyeThon is the largest, student-run philanthropy at Ohio State. With an ultimate goal of ending childhood cancer, BuckeyeThon works to raise money to support the kids treated at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Nationwide Children's Hospital is Co ...
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ACT Meeting
https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/events/act-meeting-8
Location: Ag Admin 205 The purposes of this organization shall be: Be a club where students who are interested in Agricultural Communications, whether that is their major or not, can gather and be a positive force in the College of Food, Agricultural an ...