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Canning Summer Tomatoes
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/canning-summer-tomatoes
Are you ready for tomatoes and peppers fresh from the garden? I love it when the summer bounty begins and we can enjoy fresh local produce. Whether you grow your own or frequent local markets, it’s a great time to share with your family the understanding ...
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Wet Forages pose risk of barn fires
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/wet-forages-pose-risk-barn-fires
A lot of forage has been baled over the past week to 10 days. Some common questions are what harvest moistures allow for safe barn storage and how high will bale temperatures get during the sweating process after baling? There was a good article in a re ...
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Potato Leaf Hopper Scouting in Alfalfa
The potato leafhopper is a small bright green wedge shaped insect that arrives in our area each year on storm fronts from the Gulf Coast region. PLH is a sucking insect. PLH feeding causes stunting of alfalfa plants resulting in yield loss. E ...
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Prevented Plant Acres: Cover Crop Forage Options
The USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) has issued several exceptions to standard rules for prevented plant acres. Two major exceptions for 2019 only include a provision to allow a cover crop planting on prevented plant acres to be harvested as a ...
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Three Delicious Ways to Enjoy National Blueberry Month
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/three-delicious-ways-enjoy-national-blueberry-month
July is National Blueberry Month! Did you know blueberries are native to North America? According to a 2015 Smithsonian article, small wild blueberries, called lowbush blueberries, were the only existing variety until one woman’s determination led to the ...
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Prevented Plant Acres Management
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/prevented-plant-acres-management
Questions continue to be raised regarding management of prevented plant acres, specifically with regard to the use of cover crops as a forage after September 1. I have put together a web page on the Wayne County Extension web site with links to resources ...
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Nitrogen Fertilizer Rates for Corn
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/nitrogen-fertilizer-rates-corn
Our frequent rainfalls and wet soils are creating difficult circumstances to provide sidedress nitrogen applications to corn. Nitrogen is a key nutrient in determining corn yield. Unfortunately, there is limited capability for the soil to store nitrogen ...
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Prevent Plant Acres and Cover Crop Options
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/prevent-plant-acres-and-cover-crop-options
The USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) issued a rule exception on June 20 that allows a forage harvest of cover crops planted on prevented plant acres after September 1 instead of November 1. Much thought and discussion has been devoted to developing cove ...
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Family Summer Traditions
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/family-summer-traditions
The warm days of summer have finally arrived and the celebration of our Nation’s Independence is a great summer tradition for many families. Next week our extended family is gathering to celebrate my father’s upcoming 90 th birthday with the local parade ...
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Ponding and Flooding in Corn Fields
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/ponding-and-flooding-corn-fields
Adding insult to injury in this much delayed 2019 planting season, a series of heavy rainfall events have left those fields that did get planted with water logged, saturated soils. In some fields, there is standing water (ponding) or flooded conditions t ...