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Frost Seeding to Improve Pasture and Hayfield Quality
As I look at the weather forecast this week, it appears that spring is arriving. One task that is well suited to the transition time between winter and spring is frost seeding. Frost seeding involves broadcasting seed over a pasture or hay field area and ...
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Cover Crops After Corn Silage Harvest
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-28/cover-crops-after-corn-silage-harvest
A lot of corn was chopped for corn silage last week and harvest continues this week. We are about a month ahead of last year’s corn silage harvest and this year’s earlier harvest provides an opportunity to get cover crops established on those acres. Ear ...
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Woolly Bear Caterpillars
https://butler.osu.edu/news/woolly-bear-caterpillars
At this time of the year one can often spot caterpillars scampering, or at least moving as quickly as a caterpillar can, across the hot asphalt as one walks or bikes down the road. They can be exceptionally abundant on country roads bordered by soybean f ...
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Volunteering is Good for the Soul
https://butler.osu.edu/news/volunteering-good-soul-0
With fall harvest completed and fall tillage work stirring up some dust we all know the start of the holiday season is just around the corner. Also the Liberty Center in Liberty Township held their grand opening to the pleasure of numerous shoppers recen ...
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Cover Crops for Prevented Acres
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-20/cover-crops-prevented-acres
Submitted by Allan Sundermeier. Excessive rainfall and prolonged ponding conditions this spring have resulted in many fields remaining unplanted to corn or soybeans this season. These “prevented planting” acres, while unfortunate for this year’s productio ...
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2015-36
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-36
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Precautions for Harvesting Forages After a Frost
Several forage species can be extremely toxic soon after a frost because they contain compounds called cyanogenic glucosides that are converted quickly to prussic acid (i.e. hydrogen cyanide) in freeze-damaged plant tissues. Others species have an increas ...
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Higher western bean cutworm feeding may lead to mycotoxins
Although western bean cutworm (WBC) flight counts have been relatively stable compared to last year, several growers and extension educators have sent in pictures of western bean cutworm infestations and damage in corn. Obviously it is much too late to do ...
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Sampling for Soybean Cyst Nematode – It’s time!
This year’s early harvest provides the perfect opportunity to take a look at the SCN populations in your fields. We know that the state is now “polluted” with SCN, fortunately most of those fields are at very low levels – which is where they should be ke ...
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2015-34
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-34
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