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  1. Spring Management Reminders for Maximizing Nutritive Value of Ryelage

    grain crops along with forages in their systems, it’s important to evaluate how rye management may ... impact your summer crop. In this study, soybean yield was measured across the rye forage treatments, as ... can be seen in Figure 4. Figure 4. Soybean plants growing through unharvested rye cover crop (left) ...

  2. Precision Conservation: Targeted Conservation Practices for Profitable and Sustainable Crop Production

    county SWCD to enroll or re- enroll in H2Ohio as windows open, and prepare current soil tests and field ... would like to thank Eric Richer, Field Specialist, Farm Management, Ohio State University Extension; ... stop losing money on unprofitable acres. Many fields have spots that struggle year after year, such as ...

  3. Summer Scholar on Livestock Health Project

    We are seeking a Summer Scholar to join our research team for a 14-week summer program (mid-May ... diseases, and a background in a related field. Please contact Risa  Pesapane.1@osu.edu  for more information ... rural Ohio, and applicants should be comfortable working outdoors in pastures for extended periods, ...

  4. Weed Management and Other Considerations for Alfalfa Spring Plantings

    alfalfa seedlings are also in group 2, which are less effective in cold weather. If you expect to plant in ... annual grass weeds in alfalfa seedlings that are in the 2 nd trifoliate stage or larger. May cause ... crop rotation. Inoculating seed may not be necessary if you’ve grown alfalfa or sweet clover in that ...

  5. Vomitoxin in Corn

    go.osu.edu/DON23  and here. Results do not represent all hybrids in the screening trial or available in Ohio and ... predict when weather conditions are favorable for vomitoxin or DON contamination. A new vomitoxin crop ... risk predication tool  was released in 2025 and hosted on the Crop Protection Network at ...

  6. Winter Annual Cereal Grain Forage Spring Management

    2024 and 90 lb/acre in 2025. As acid rain continues to decline, sulfur applications may someday ... was in the late boot stage and some plants had heads just started to emerge, resulted in a decline in ... ½ to ¾ of an inch; however, in some instances, it may be appropriate to chop as long as 1 ½ inches. The ...

  7. Wind, Water, and the Fight for Soil Health

    Ohio, there are many resources for growing cover crops in a crop rotation, including videos, factsheets, ... soil surface results in dislodged soil particles that can be transported outside the field boundary. ... growing crop cover. To overcome this, it is important to manage what is possible: keeping the soil covered ...

  8. Graduate Exit Seminar- Ying-Ren Lai

    contaminated soils where arsenic (As) mobility and toxicity are strongly governed by redox fluctuations, ... two challenges for sustainable land management. Excess dissolved runoff phosphorus (DRP) released from ... practices are designed to control sediment and particulate P rather than the dissolved fraction. In ...

  9. Farmers Can Use Nitrogen-Rate Calculator For Application Rates

    Persian Gulf has reduced supplies and increased the value of what is on hand.  In the last two weeks, the ... commodities and the inputs it takes to grow them.  We are always watching to see how many tons of soybeans are ... years and has consistently shown that, on average, an Ohio corn crop needs approximately 150 units of ...

  10. Mowing Is The First Critical Step In Producing Quality Forage

    As we enter the spring harvest season for small grain forages and hay crops, many of these first ... head can be felt in the flag leaf stem, but prior to seed head emergence.  For our legume species, we ... want to begin harvest when we see the first bloom in the field. The next important benchmark is baling ...

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