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1. Squash Vine Borer Damage and Management: What to Look for and When to Act

   In some cases, growers report nearly complete crop loss as a result of SVB damage. Larvae bore into ... least weekly. If five or more moths are caught weekly, then management action is needed to reduce crop ... the soil. However, keep in mind that fields often need to be rotated more than 5 miles away as SVB can ...

2. Weather whiplash raises financial risk for Ohio farmers

   Tracy Turner COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio farmers are increasingly being forced to manage two opposing ... recordkeeping began in 1895. Temperatures shifted sharply as well, from a colder-than-average May to record-warm ... overnight lows in early summer. This “weather whiplash” directly affects crop development, grain fill and ...

3. Top-dressing Wheat with Liquid Manure

   and streams. Applicators in the Western Lake Erie Basin also need to look at the weather forecast to ... Wheat fields will be firming up across Ohio and spring top-dressing with nitrogen fertilizer will ... soon start in the most southern counties. Livestock producers and commercial manure applicators may be ...

4. 2026 Plant Sciences Symposium Highlights

   sustainable results. Juan is a post doc working in the Jones Lab with Dr. Michelle Jones. What got you ... Sessoms. What got you interested in plant science?   This goes back to when I was younger. I always enjoyed ... I majored in Agronomy with a specialization in Horticulture. I realized how important green areas are for ...

5. Winter Malting Barley Production

   high-quality grain for malting purposes. Ohio farmers need to carefully consider growing winter malting barley, ... because there are limited markets in Ohio for barley that does not meet the requirements for malt. Malting ... Quality Parameters Disease Management Field Selection Management of Fusarium Head Blight Planting Date, ...

6. Panel 1: Adapting Growing Systems, Crop Management, and Benchmarking

   teaching in fruit crop diseases. Lewis Ivey’s research focuses on the development and integration of ... JOIN THE PANEL 1 DISCUSSION "Adapting Growing Systems, Crop Management, and ... physiology, morphology, and development of CEA specialty crops. As a bilingual extension educator, he provides ...

7. Federal registration approved for three dicamba products labeled for OTT application to resistant soybean 

   applications in soybean are now federally approved for the 2026 growing season. The three products, Stryax ... (Bayer) 1, Engenia (BASF) 2, and Tavium (Syngenta) are in various phases of label release and state ... dicamba-sensitive crops or plants are in downwind areas, preventing direct harm to vulnerable species and ...

8. Freezer Not Just For Dinner But Also Snacks

   ahead of time I thought about what foods my husband and I like and what would freeze well. I made a list ... of dinners I would typically make throughout the week and then looked for different ideas and ... recipes. Once I had some ideas in mind my mom and I headed out to the grocery store to get the items we ...

9. 2025 eFields Report Available!

   Now that we are a few weeks into 2026, let’s look back to review the past growing season. The 2025 ... season. The 2025 eFields Research Report highlights 102 on-farm, field scale trials conducted in 29 Ohio ... trials would not be possible without collaborating farms and industry partners who are invested in making ...

10. Panel Discussion 2: Leafy Greens Root Health Management

    realistically working in practice? How good are we at detecting root health issues early? What’s useful today, ... in production settings? And, what would an ideal root health diagnosis assay be like for your ... or technology gaps in root health management that still need attention?  What developments or ...

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