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  1. Raising Meat Chickens

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0161

    Marek’s disease. The coccidia vaccine will help protect the chick against four of the seven varieties of ... the certification, the chicks were free from certain diseases, including pullorum. For questions about ... clean water and feed. Prevention of Disease Biosecurity and sanitation are important in poultry ...

  2. Lawn Mowing

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5816

    Garden lawn lawns turf turfgrass grass mowing Horticulture and Crop Science ... University Mowing, the controlled defoliation of turfgrass, is a cornerstone practice in lawn management. ... pesticide applications, for cultivating and maintaining a high-quality lawn. Properly mowed lawns have ...

  3. Storing, Using, and Marketing Currants, Gooseberries, and Jostaberries in Ohio

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0163

    rust (WPBR) became a serious disease, threatening the lucrative timber business in the United States. ... blister rust disease (WPBR) was reviewed on August 10, 2021, and rescinded on October 28, 2021, due to ... waning concern over the disease and a need to reduce regulations. As of January 2025, currants and ...

  4. Narrow Row Spacing in Corn: Management Considerations for Ohio

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0152

    disease issues, and response to foliar inputs of nitrogen (N) and fungicide. The trials were conducted ... foliar disease ratings, according to company literature, were used to assess differences in foliar ... disease and response to fungicide and foliar nitrogen (N) when grown in narrow (15-inch) or conventional ...

  5. Shigella: Bacteria that Causes the Foodborne Illness Shigellosis

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-5563

    children with the disease can have seizures. Symptoms can take as long as a week to show up, but most often ... weeks. The bacteria must be swallowed to cause disease. They are often spread when people do not wash ... swallow the water or even get their lips wet. If you think you might have this disease, you should see ...

  6. What to Look for in a Lawn Care Service

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-4025-88

    to enhance winter turf color, quicken spring green-up, reduce lawn disease problems, and improve ... lawn lawncare mowing fertilizer disease control grub control soil cultivation re-seeding re-sodding ... spring, mowing frequency is increased as is the incidence of disease while tolerance to heat and drought ...

  7. Blacklegged (Deer) Tick, Ixodes scapularis

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

    companion animals with pathogens that cause diseases. Preventing tick bites is the best protection from ... tickborne disease (box 1). If you find a tick biting you, remove the tick as soon as possible (box 2), note ... year, depending on temperature. Positive cases of Lyme disease have been reported in Ohio in all 12 ...

  8. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/vme-1037

    lungs.  Disease severity ranges from mild to severe illness and can cause death. The flu infects many ... domestic poultry (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017). There are four types of flu: Influenza ... currently thought to infect only cattle and pigs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021, and ...

  9. Drones for Spraying Pesticides—Opportunities and Challenges

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

    detection of insects and diseases Drones successfully and effectively monitor plant growth by collecting and ...

  10. Sudden Oak Death (aka Ramorum blight)

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-tree-05

    blight) is a disease caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora ramorum that was discovered in ... central-coastal California in 1995. This pathogen had been known to cause disease in nurseries and gardens since ...  Sporangia of  P. ramorum. Photo by UC Berkeley. The disease causes extensive mortality on tanoak ...

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