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Seed Vigor Test Refined to Measure Additional Plant Varieties
is nearly 80 percent accurate. The system, developed by Ohio State University crop production and ... want good seed in their fields. If it's not good seed, the plant won't grow. This system ... greenhouse growers the best opportunities for a larger yield. In the past, these tests were conducted by ...
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"Emerging" Problems Plague Corn/Soybeans
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/emerging-problems-plague-cornsoybeans
creating emergence problems in corn and soybeans. Ohio State University Extension agronomists said bouts of ... a corn plant is usually out of the ground in seven to 10 days. But this year with cool, wet conditions, ... emergence has been delayed three to four weeks in some cases and crusting has contributed to this ...
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Emerging Problems Plague Corn/Soybeans
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/emerging-problems-plague-cornsoybeans-0
creating emergence problems in corn and soybeans. Ohio State University Extension agronomists said bouts of ... a corn plant is usually out of the ground in seven to 10 days. But this year with cool, wet conditions, ... emergence has been delayed three to four weeks in some cases and crusting has contributed to this ...
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Bird Is the Word: Walk Is in Secrest on Aug. 13
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/bird-word-walk-secrest-aug-13
August 1, 2011 WOOSTER, Ohio-- What’s in the air in Secrest Arboretum? See for yourself when the ... 120-acre plant collection, part of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, holds ... entrance at 1680 Madison Ave. in Wooster. Signs on the campus will direct you to the arboretum. For more ...
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New Farm Bill Option Aids Producers in Managing Crop Risk
Carl Zulauf, an Ohio State University agricultural economist with the Department of Agricultural, ... think ACRE is a very significant addition to farm policy particularly at this point in time because it ... tied up in input costs.'" The traditional suite of farm support programs-- marketing loan, ...
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Field Crop Irrigation May Work For Some Ohio Growers
"Ohio normally tends to get enough rainfall during the summer months that investing in an irrigation ... irrigation approaches," said Larry Brown, an Ohio State University Extension agricultural engineer and ... conditions." According to the most recent statistics available to Brown- a limited survey he conducted in 1989- ...
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Management Technique Aids in Treating Plant Problems
University Extension horticulturists, may help landscape professionals and homeowners better diagnose and ... plant," said Boggs. For example, explained Boggs, a typical Category 1 problem in the landscape would be ... that cannot tolerant poorly drained soils planted in wet conditions becomes a Category 2 since the ...
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Pre-Emergent Herbicides Effective for Weed Control
April 5, 2006 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- With resistance to glyphosate increasing in weed species throughout ... becoming more evident. Jeff Stachler, an Ohio State University Extension weed specialist, said that ... marestail (horseweed) in corn and soybean fields, but their effectiveness is contingent upon how they are ...
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Get Your Field Crops Tips for 2011 from Ohio State Jan. 27 in Archbold (NW Ohio)
and will be packed with all the information you need to know to get off to a good start in the ... Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Ohio River Forecast Center.-- “Risks and rewards in nutrient management,” ... Robert Mullen, OSU Extension soil fertility specialist.-- “Insects to be on the lookout for in 2011,” ...
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Take Steps to Control Ornamental Plant Diseases
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/take-steps-control-ornamental-plant-diseases
Ohio State University Extension agent. Jim Chatfield, a Northeast District horticulture specialist, ... flowering crabapples first begin to fall." In Wooster, he said, crab apples are beginning to flower now ... Center's Secrest Arboretum in Wooster found that 33 of the 63 crabapple cultivars studied showed little or ...