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So, you planted late? Watch out for diseases
Late-planted corn and soybeans could be vulnerable to higher-than-normal levels of crop diseases this year, experts from The Ohio State University warn.
Good news for soybean growers
Another research breakthrough has been made in the battle against Phytophthora sojae, a disease that can kill soybean plants and cause significant yield losses.
Independence pipeline foes are still fighting
Groups across Ohio and Pennsylvania opposing the proposed Independence natural gas pipeline, are still urging landowners not to sign right-of-way easements.
The numbers defining the agricultural landscape
Alan Guebert follows the numbers around the world to identify commodity trends and all the way back to the U.S. where way too much was spent on elections.
Big Ag’s weak hand in nitrate fight
In May 2013 Iowa implemented the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, a program that all but admitted the state’s ag runoff was a growing problem that required joint attention from farmers, local communities and the state.
Nature’s fireworks: Fireflies’ bioluminescence
The first firefly of the year appeared in my yard a month ago. As fireworks commemorate Independence Day, I’m reminded of the natural fireworks that go on all summer long. Fireflies or lightning bugs First, though, a few words of clarification. Fireflies, or lightning bugs as my dad called them, are neither flies, nor bugs.
Homeowners making mountains out of moles’ hills
Mounds of fresh top soil and ridges from tunnels just under the sod mean one thing — moles. Have to offer But before you succumb to the pest industry’s annual campaign against moles and rush to the local home improvement center for traps and poison, consider what moles have to offer. The presence of moles
Tables for dinner, chairs for sitting
Along the way style imposed itself over the basic function of chairs, as columnist Roy Booth points out in this week’s column.
Bugged
Kymberly Foster Seabolt dives head-first into a battle with the little brown ants that have taken over her kitchen.
