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Organic Grain Production an Appealing, Yet Challenging Farming Practice
it'." Organic production is defined as a farming practice that relies upon crop rotation, crop residues, ... raising organic crops, but Stinner recommends that farmers start small and take organic production in ... responsibility. The United States market for organic products has increased at least 20 percent within the past 10 ...
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Training for Specialty Crop IPM Plan Developers Offered March 14 in London
plan writing for specialty crop growers, March 14, in London, Ohio. "This workshop is designed for ... certified crop advisors, independent crop consultants and technical service providers who have an interest ... and preferably some experience working with vegetable, tree fruit or small fruit production ...
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New Opportunities for Tomato Growers With Grafting
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/new-opportunities-tomato-growers-grafting
industry and hydroponic vegetable production, but Kleinhenz thinks that open field and high tunnel tomato ... May 13, 2010 WOOSTER, Ohio – Open field and high tunnel tomato producers yearning for high-quality ... crop performance with marketable fruit neatly wrapped in one plant may find what they are looking for ...
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Ohio Growers Facing Compaction Harvesting in Wet Soils
November 24, 2009 COLUMBUS, Ohio – Many Ohio corn and soybean growers are harvesting record crops ... will be unable to get back in their fields after harvest," said Randall Reeder, an Ohio State ... University Extension agricultural engineer. "Many fields have ruts and severe compaction issues." ...
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Ohio Drought Doesn't Slow Soybeans; Record Yields Possible
end of the field, but not the back end." For more information on Ohio's soybean crop, refer ... Ohio's top three field crop commodities, generating over $1.3 billion to the agricultural industry, ... little to slow the performance of the soybean crop. In fact, growers could be looking at near-record ...
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OSU Extension to Hold Sweet Corn Tour
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/osu-extension-hold-sweet-corn-tour
June 12, 2001 VANDALIA, Ohio- Vegetable growers seeking information on various field crop insects, ... "The VegTeam usually offers a few field days a year on various crops. This year it happens to be sweet ... weeds, diseases, animal control and production practices can attend the first annual Ohio State ...
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Slugs May Be Abundant This Year
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/slugs-may-be-abundant-year
and eggs are present in abundance in some no-till fields throughout western, southern and northeast ... finding a lot of slugs in fields and those just carried through winter to lay eggs," said Ron ... creates the most damage to crops and its voracious appetite can be devastating for farmers who have had ...
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World's Largest Soybean Farmer to Present at OSU Extension Field Day
crops production and management. The field day will be held from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Fayette ... Agronomy Field Day on Aug. 12. Blairo Maggi, governor of Mato Grosso, Brazil and considered the ... grain crops specialist-- Top 10 tips for high-yielding corn. • Dwayne Siekman, Ohio Corn Growers ...
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Ohio Drought Impacting Potential Corn Yields
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-drought-impacting-potential-corn-yields
corn crop, and some fields are already taking a major yield hit. Peter Thomison, an Ohio State ... those fields may already be lost. "The general overview of the condition of the corn crop is that ... needs water." Corn is one of Ohio's most valuable field crop commodities, second to soybeans ...
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Management Strategies of Field Pests Different from Diseases
practices involve situations with individual crop fields. By contrast, the spread of diseases, like soybean ... cover a lot of fields in an area, so if one field has it, others might be at risk for it so you may have ... to treat your field to prevent it. That isn't the situation with insects. Finding the aphid in ...