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Corn Seeding Rates – Adjusting for Germination Values
Ensuring adequate plant stands to enable optimum yields is key in corn cropping systems, and it begins with optimizing seeding rates. Plant stands to optimize yield depending on hybrid and location can range from 24,000-34,000 per acre. Lower-yielding fie ...
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Dryness Persisted But Soakers on the Way
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-07/dryness-persisted-soakers-way
Climate Summary Despite improving drought conditions throughout the winter, longer-term dry signals persisted in northwest and southeast Ohio. Precipitation over the last 30 days has ranged from 1.5 inches in parts of northwest and eastern Ohio, to more t ...
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Spring Nitrogen Fertilization for Winter Annual Cereal Grain Forages
Nitrogen fertilization of cereal grains for forage is important for both yield and quality. Using an application method split between the spring and fall is important and can increase yield and tillering, can help spread the risk of nitrogen loss and impr ...
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Check Your Soybean Seed Tags Before Planting!
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-07/check-your-soybean-seed-tags-planting
By law, seed sold in Ohio must include the percentage of germination on the seed tag along with the date tested (Figure 1). In most years, soybean seed germination is at least 90%. However, given the challenging weather conditions at harvest last year ...
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Battle for the Belt: Season 3, Episode 1- 2024 Results
Season 3 Episode 1 of Battle for the Belt is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y96zw0R8D0o In Episode 1, we summarize results of each location for the 2024 crop season. Project Overview Battle for the Belt aims to answer four questions: Which ...
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2025-07
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-07
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Belury named a 2025 American Society for Nutrition Distinguished Fellow
https://fst.osu.edu/news/belury-named-2025-american-society-nutrition-distinguished-fellow
NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR NUTRITION The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) and ASN Foundation announce the 21 members who will be inducted into the 2025 Class of Distinguished Fellows of ASN (DFASN). Induction as a Distinguished Fellow of ASN i ...
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Vomitoxin in Corn
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/corn/vomitoxin-corn
What is Vomitoxin? Vomitoxin or deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin produced by the fungus Gibberella zeae (also known as Fusarium graminearum). Gibberella zeae causes Gibberella ear and stalk rot of corn and fusarium head blight or head scab of whea ...
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2024 Autumn Dean's List Announced
https://fst.osu.edu/news/2024-autumn-deans-list-announced
Congratulations to the Food Science, Food Business Management, and Culinary Science students who were named to the 2024 Spring Semester Dean’s List. To qualify for this recognition, these students completed a minimum of 12 graded credit hours with a GPA o ...
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Spring Nitrogen Recommendations for Winter Wheat
Winter wheat is beginning to show signs of green-up (Figure 1). Nitrogen fertilizer should be applied to winter wheat between green-up and Feekes growth stage 6. (If you need a reminder on how to assess if wheat is at Feekes GS 6, see this video: https:// ...