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  1. A Guide to Corn Growth and Development

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0148

    Specialist, Department of Agronomy Iowa State University One of the critical activities in growing a crop is ... accumulation) primarily drive development, and it can be predicted (corn growing degree days, see how it works ... determined by three main components. Each component is determined at different times during the growing ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Food Preservation: Freezing Fruits

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-5349

    microorganisms will continue to grow. Freezing also slows chemical changes that affect quality. Natural enzymes ...

  4. Ripe Rot of Grape

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-fru-0052

    disease that primarily occurs in warm, moist, growing regions in the southeastern United States. However, ... during fruit maturation. The disease is caused by multiple species of the fungus Colletotrichum. Ripe rot ... to undesirable flavors and color. Disease Development and Symptoms Ripe rot is caused by multiple ...

  5. Corn Response to Long-Term Weather Stressors

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0150

    the growing season. Studies suggest that solar radiation reductions during corn’s silking and ... accumulation of heat units over time rather than its number of calendar days from planting. The corn growing ... trends for spring and fall frost dates and the growing season length. When the last spring frost occurs ...

  6. Forage Testing for Beef Cattle

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0149

    a lactating cow. Therefore, the best use of this hay is on growing replacement heifers and pregnant and ... day, two months after it has calved. Growing heifer NEG requirements vary based on many factors, the ... that young and rapidly growing calves have a higher requirement, but this need is often met by milk. ...

  7. Annual Bluegrass Weevil

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-0095

    on scouting of ABW stages and densities, growing degree days, and plant phenology (adulticides: ... diseases of insects, respectively), may be used but provide only moderate control levels. These ... responsibility, by law, to read and follow current label instructions for the specific pesticide being used. No ...

  8. Opportunities for Sub-surface Nutrient Placement in Ohio

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/fabe-56401

    a fertilizer band (generally 3–8”) of liquid, dry, or anhydrous, before the growing season and usually involves ...

  9. Wine Grape Cultivars for the Midwest

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0138

    major challenge of growing grapes in the Midwest is winter injury, which is likely to occur during the ... characteristics, including fruit and wine quality, ripening season, disease susceptibility (especially bunch rot), ... end of the fact sheet. Table 3 describes the disease resistance and chemical sensitivity of these ...

  10. Herbicide Injury and the Problem of Spray Drift

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0137

    training systems such as single high wire, Geneva Double Curtain, Smart-Dyson, and Scott Henry. Grow tubes ... a volatile herbicide to turn into a gas even after having been successfully applied to target surfaces. ... growing points of plants, and injure root systems. Glyphosate is applied, usually in combination with ...

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