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Soil Amendment and Foliar Application Product Evaluation Trials Summary
In 2015, the Soil Fertility Lab at Ohio State started offering a third party evaluation of proprietary soil amendments and foliar applications aimed at improving the mineral nutrition and productivity of crops. This new service intends to provide timely a ...
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Temperatures Went the Wrong Way!
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/temperatures-went-wrong-way
This was more for my own curiosity to see what has happened to the soil temperatures in the state following 2 weeks of cold, snowy weather. Our temperatures went down in almost all of the locations. From the weather stations at the OARDC branches, these ...
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The Big Data Confusion: Part 4 – Collection, Access, and Control
This week’s installment of “The Big Data Confusion” highlights “Collection, Access and Control”. According to the Privacy and Security Principles for Farm Data, “an ATP’s collection, access and use of farm data should be granted only with the affirmative ...
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Mild winter, Pathogen Survival, and Early Disease Development
When the winter is as mild as it was this past year, pathogens that would have otherwise been killed or at least suppressed by the cold temperatures end up surviving and getting an early start to infect our crops. With the exception of the rust fungi, mos ...
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How Low Can You Go? Cold Weather and Wheat Injury
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/how-low-can-you-go-cold-weather-and-wheat-injury
Cool weekend temperatures have prompted some concern 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. As wheat greens-up, the plant becom ...
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Timing of Vertical Tillage and Herbicide Applications
One of the questions that has come up repeatedly over the past year or so concerns the appropriate order of vertical tillage versus herbicide application in the spring. Two general principles guide our thinking on this issue: 1) if possible, foliar burndo ...
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Modified Relay Intercropping in Wide Row Wheat
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/modified-relay-intercropping-wide-row-wheat
Modified relay intercropping of soybeans into wheat is a very versatile system across many row spacings. Over the past 17 years of intercropping at OSU Unger Farm, three rows spacings have been used. Ten inch spacing was used for the first 15 years, but t ...
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What is the Meaning of Feekes Growth Stages in Wheat?
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/what-meaning-feekes-growth-stages-wheat
There are at least five growth scale systems developed worldwide for wheat, the one we often use is the Feekes scale. This scale uses a numbering system 1 through 11 with each number representative of a new growth event. Each number may be further divided ...
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Seneca County Cattleman's T-Shirt Contest
https://seneca.osu.edu/news/seneca-county-cattlemans-t-shirt-contest
The Seneca County Cattleman are sponsoring a T-shirt contest for Seneca County residents. The winning design will get a free t-shirt, $35.00, and their design will be showcased on t-shirts to be sold at upcoming cattleman funcations. If you are interest ...
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News: Ohio State ATI Expands Into Online Education, College Partnerships
https://ati.osu.edu/news/news-ohio-state-ati-expands-online-education-college-partnerships
WOOSTER, Ohio — The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI) is adding online teaching to its educational repertoire, beginning this autumn semester with a unique partnership with a northwest Ohio community college. The two-year degree ...