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Southern Ohio Corn May be at Risk for Stewart's Wilt
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/southern-ohio-corn-may-be-risk-stewarts-wilt
March 17, 2008 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Southern Ohio's corn crop may face a high risk of Stewart's bacterial wilt and leaf blight this growing season. The disease is caused by a bacterium carried and spread by adult flea beetles. Based on the flea bee ...
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Soggy Fields May Promote Wheat Diseases
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/soggy-fields-may-promote-wheat-diseases
May 22, 2002 WOOSTER, Ohio- Excessive wet weather throughout Ohio the past several weeks may cause problems with disease development in the state's wheat crop. Pat Lipps, an Ohio State University Extension plant pathologist with the Ohio Agricultural ...
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Soil Sampling Only Way to Catch Silent Robber of Soybean Yields
November 23, 2005 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Soybean rust may have been the talk in crop fields across Ohio this season, but now is the time for growers to turn their attention toward a more elusive pest. Deemed the "silent robber of yields," soybean cys ...
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Slugs May Be Abundant This Year
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/slugs-may-be-abundant-year
April 16, 2002 WOOSTER, Ohio- High slug populations may welcome no-till farmers to the start of the growing season. Ohio State University entomologists have been receiving reports that adult slugs and eggs are present in abundance in some no-till fields t ...
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Size Matters with Slug Feeding
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/size-matters-slug-feeding
January 31, 2006 WOOSTER, Ohio-- The first signs of slug activity and feeding in crop fields is correlated with the size of the juveniles, according to Ohio State University entomology research. Field studies conducted last summer at the Ohio Agricultur ...
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Sentinel Plots to Aid in Soybean Rust Detection
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/sentinel-plots-aid-soybean-rust-detection
June 3, 2005 MT. GILEAD, Ohio — Soybeans in the unifoliate, or one leaf, stage of development peak through the soil on grower Tom Weiler's Mt. Gilead, Ohio, farm. Seeded on April 11, the beans are among the first planted in Ohio and for a specific ...
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Selecting the Right Corn Hybrids Important
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/selecting-right-corn-hybrids-important
March 15, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Corn yield potential has increased as much as 2.5 percent per year over the past half-century due to genetic improvements in hybrids. But getting the most out of a crop's performance involves more than just relying on ...
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Seed Vigor Assessment Quicker, More Accurate with New System
August 29, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ohio- A new system that assesses seed vigor may improve the way seed companies evaluate overall seed quality and growth performance. Ohio State University crop production and computer science researchers have developed an automat ...
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Seed Vigor Test Refined to Measure Additional Plant Varieties
September 24, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ohio- An automated image scanning system developed to assess overall seed vigor of lettuce has been refined to measure half of all seedling plant varieties that exist and is nearly 80 percent accurate. The system, developed by ...
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Say Good-bye to Manually Controlled Sprayers
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/say-good-bye-manually-controlled-sprayers
October 25, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Spraying is one of the most stressful operations in agriculture, not only requiring concentration from the operator to avoid chemical drift or overlap, but also manual operation of boom sections that house the sprayer noz ...