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  1. Food Preservation: Freezing Fruits

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-5349

    directions for individual fruits.) Treat washed and sorted fruit with ascorbic acid, which is available in ... stand for 10–15 minutes to draw out juice—which will dissolve the sugar—or freeze immediately. Syrup ...

  2. A Guide to Corn Growth and Development

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0148

    interchangeably, yet each has a distinct meaning. Corn growth is related to the increase in size of an individual ... field or an individual plant. Plants within a field do not all simultaneously begin or end pollen shed ... more days. However, most pollen production lasts approximately four days. An individual plant at peak ...

  3. Corn Response to Long-Term Weather Stressors

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0150

    longer periods of time. This has been studied with shading experiments. Significant yield reductions have been ... the growing season. Studies suggest that solar radiation reductions during corn’s silking and ... development, and subsequently, crop yields. A 2012 study reported an increase in the mean annual nonfrozen ...

  4. Forage Testing for Beef Cattle

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0149

    sample a rectangular bale, the bit is driven into the end of 15–20 bales from a particular lot of hay. ... 1.2% to 1.5% of the cow's body weight. The higher the quality of the forage, the closer to 1.5% of ... condition score of five, and having a mature weight of 1,400, gains 1.5 pounds per day, which requires 0.55 ...

  5. Blacklegged (Deer) Tick, Ixodes scapularis

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-0096

    ticks). Nymphal-stage blacklegged ticks are about the size of a poppy seed (1.5 millimeters), and unfed ...

  6. Annual Bluegrass Weevil

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-0095

    a destructive pest of short-mown turfgrass in golf courses and sports fields. Adults measure less than 1/5 inch ... individual plants. Also, it is recommended to use plant phenology together with degree-day models and pest ... all stages to the surface (stir and observe every 15 minutes for one hour). Alternatively, larvae may ...

  7. Drones for Spraying Pesticides—Opportunities and Challenges

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/fabe-540

    powerful enough to lift a 10–15-gallon tank. Most commercial spray drones today are the multi-rotor type ... credible, replicated, and comprehensive studies have been conducted, or models developed, to determine the ... the target. Fortunately, this topic has been the focus of a large number of recent studies. A clearer ...

  8. Wine Grape Cultivars for the Midwest

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0138

    important considerations are listed here, and these considerations should be studied prior to planting. The ... 15 F or lower. Since much of the Midwest experiences these temperatures during winter, vinifera are ... F moderately hardy—minus 10 to minus 15 F hardy—minus 15 to minus 20 F very hardy—minus 20 F or below The ...

  9. Potassium Uptake and Ohio Crop Response

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0147

    that study. Table 1 (click to download PDF). Soil-test values in the Tri-state reference Bulletin 974 ... limit (Culman et al., 2020). The study sites had a range of soil-test potassium (STK) values from 39 to ... values in the given study was below the critical level and above the maintenance limit, providing sites ...

  10. Herbicide Injury and the Problem of Spray Drift

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0137

    conditions. Wind speeds up to 10 and sometimes 15 mph are permitted by most herbicide product labels, but can ... adequately studied. But evidence from drift events in commercial vineyards indicates an overall reduction in ...

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