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2012 Drought Could Mean Larger Soybean Seeds for 2013 Growing Season
COLUMBUS, Ohio – As soybean growers go into the 2013 planting season, they may find that many soybean seeds are larger than normal, a lingering impact from the 2012 drought, said an expert with Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and En ...
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Entomologist Offers Guidance on Controlling Slugs in No-till Soybean, Corn Fields
WOOSTER, Ohio – Crop growers should take extra precautions to scout their fields this spring for slugs to try to get control of these plant feeders before they attack corn and soybean plants and cause feeding injury, an Ohio State University Extension ent ...
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Ohio 4-H Planning Two Campus-Based Science Camps
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-4-h-planning-two-campus-based-science-camps
COLUMBUS, Ohio-- For most kids, summer means a well-deserved extended break from school. ...
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Ohio State to Hold Produce Safety Workshops in Toledo, Dayton, Canfield
WOOSTER, Ohio-- Ohio State University’s Fruit and Vegetable Safety Program has three new workshops scheduled on good agricultural practices, or GAPs, for Ohio produce growers. The workshops, which are the same at each location, will teach ways to redu ...
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EcoErek Collecting Denim at 2013 Scarlet and Gray Ag Day
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ecoerek-collecting-denim-2013-scarlet-and-gray-ag-day
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Erek Hansen, also known as “EcoErek,” will be collecting used denim at the 2013 Micki Zartman Scarlet and Gray Ag Day on April 19 on the campus of Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences for hi ...
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Urban Kid Finds Calling, Career Path in World of Agriculture
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/urban-kid-finds-calling-career-path-in-world-agriculture
WOOSTER, Ohio-- How does an urban kid with no background in agriculture discover a love for plants and a professional interest in horticulture? For Cleveland native Josh Henry, it started with a gardening class in elementary school. ...
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Chow Line: Dry kidney beans need to be boiled
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/chow-line-dry-kidney-beans-need-be-boiled
A few weeks ago, I soaked some dry kidney beans to prepare them for some chili. My sister told me that before adding them to the chili, I should boil them to make sure the beans wouldn’t make us sick. I did, but was that really necessary? ...
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Spring Planting: Planting Corn During Optimal Time One Key in Getting Corn Planting Off to Good Start
https://cfaes.osu.edu/node/1024
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Growers who want to get their corn crop out to a good start this year should make sure they get it planted during the optimal corn planting time, which in some parts of Ohio typically starts as early this week, an Ohio State University Ex ...
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Ohio State Weed Specialist: Do Legwork to Stop Spread of Costly Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio growers, agribusinesses and Ohio State University weed scientists will need to work over the next decade to prevent a weed known to many cotton and soybean farmers in the South as “pigweed on steroids” from further expansion in Ohio, ...
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Power Farming: Ohio State Tests Bioenergy Crops for Fuel, Combustion
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- All across Ohio, a variety of grasses, shrubs and trees are being grown and analyzed to see how well they can produce something that is always in high demand: energy. ...