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Slug feeding injury is early, rampant after warm winter
5/15/2012 - Crop growers should take extra precaution to scout their fields this spring for slugs as the near-record warm winter has caused these plant-feeders to attack and grow large enough to cause noticeable feeding injury much sooner than normal, an Ohio...
Tiny plants could cut costs, shrink environmental footprint
5/15/2012 - Tall, waving corn fields that line Midwestern roads may one day be replaced by dwarfed versions that require less water, fertilizer and other inputs, thanks to a fungicide commonly used on golf courses.
Burkhard Schulz, a Purdue University...
Coming June 2 in Canton: Food safety practices for fruit, vegetable growers
5/15/2012 - Stark Parks will host a program on food safety practices for fruit and vegetable growers from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 2 at the Exploration Gateway at Sippo Lake Park.
The program will focus on Good Agricultural Practices, or GAPs, for fruit...
Extended spring weather brings armyworm aplenty to Indiana
5/15/2012 - Mild March temperatures extended the spring season and brought armyworm moths to Indiana in populations not so abundant since 2001 - a year entomologists dubbed "The Year of the Armyworm."
Purdue Extension's black light trapping network has...
Markets respond to USDA report with plea for more soybean acres
5/10/2012 - The latest report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that U.S. soybean supplies could be at their lowest level relative to use since 1965 following the 2012-2013 cropping year.
The report, released Thursday (May 10), includes...
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