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  1. Wheat Growers Watching Weather in Ohio as Crops Are Ahead Two Weeks and Could Result in Strong Yields or Diseased Fields

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/wheat-growers-watching-weather-ohio-crops-are-ahead-two-weeks-and-could-result-strong

    May 11, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Wheat is already heading in some fields in northern and central Ohio and is flowering in some fields in the southern third of the state, some two weeks earlier than expected, according to an Ohio State University Extension whe ...

  2. Farmers to Learn New Strawberry Production Method that Creates Earlier and Longer Harvest

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/farmers-learn-new-strawberry-production-method-creates-earlier-and-longer-harvest

    May 11, 2012 PIKETON, Ohio – Strawberry growers can learn about a new production method taught by an Ohio State University Extension specialist that can help them grow larger, sweeter strawberries that can be harvested in early May and well into fall.  Th ...

  3. Ohio State Involved in Gates Foundation's $8M Grant for Childhood Malnutrition

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-state-involved-gates-foundations-8m-grant-childhood-malnutrition

    May 14, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio -- An $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund an international team of scientists focused on finding new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent a critical global health problem: malnutrition in inf ...

  4. Boosting Dairy Cattle Fertility: New Technologies, Outreach Go Hand in Hand

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/boosting-dairy-cattle-fertility-new-technologies-outreach-go-hand-hand

    May 16, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Increasing the reproductive efficiency of dairy cattle-- getting the highest possible number of cows pregnant in the same period of time-- has always been a challenge for this industry. Ohio State University specialists are w ...

  5. Crop Growers Still Have Time to Switch to Corn if Alfalfa Stands Don’t Meet Production Criteria

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/crop-growers-still-have-time-switch-corn-if-alfalfa-stands-don%E2%80%99t-meet-production

    May 17, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio – Crop growers wondering if they should keep their alfalfa or rotate to a different crop still have time to switch to corn if they find their alfalfa stands don’t meet production criteria, an Ohio State University Extension educ ...

  6. Slug Feeding Injury Rampant for Crop Growers as Near-record Warm Winter Causes the Pests to Attack Weeks Earlier than Normal

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/slug-feeding-injury-rampant-crop-growers-near-record-warm-winter-causes-pests-attack

    May 17, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio – Crop growers should take extra precaution to scout their fields this spring for slugs as the near-record warm winter Ohio has experienced this year has caused these plant feeders to have attacked earlier than normal and reach ...

  7. What's the Best Way to Burn (or Not) Certain Forests Around the Great Lakes? New Program Has Science-based Answers

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/whats-best-way-burn-or-not-certain-forests-around-great-lakes-new-program-has-science

    May 21, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Jack pines, which are common in parts of the northern Great Lakes, need fire to thrive. So does the rare and endangered Kirtland’s warbler, which nests only in burned or otherwise disturbed young jack pine stands in a handful ...

  8. OARDC Rose Garden to Hold Open House June 9

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/oardc-rose-garden-hold-open-house-june-9

    May 21, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Last year’s mild winter should mean “a grand display of blooms” this spring, said Kelly King, caretaker of Wooster’s Garden of Roses of Legend and Romance, which will hold its free annual open house from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. on June ...

  9. Remember the Borer: EAB Awareness Week Returns May 20-26

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/remember-borer-eab-awareness-week-returns-may-20-26

    May 22, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Emerald ash borer (EAB), the invasive insect that kills ash trees, continues to spread throughout the state. EAB Awareness Week, May 20-26, is the perfect opportunity to remind Ohioans of this pest's impact and their rol ...

  10. Urban Farming in a Parking Lot? See It in Action in Wooster: Tours Start May 31

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/urban-farming-parking-lot-see-it-action-wooster-tours-start-may-31

    May 22, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Joe Kovach, an Ohio State University scientist who is studying the best ways to grow food in old asphalt parking lots, will hold free public tours at his test plots in Wooster at 4 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month throu ...

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