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  1. Avoid Driving on Wet Soils

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/avoid-driving-wet-soils

    wet soils from the heavy rains this past weekend across much of Ohio. While we are eager to get that ... first cutting made, haste will make waste if we drive on hay stands before the soils are firm enough to ... support the equipment. When we run hay equipment on soft soils, the wheel compaction damage to plant ...

  2. Lower First Cutting Hay Yields Are Being Reported

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/lower-first-cutting-hay-yields-are-being-reported

    noticeable differences in first cut yield among forage stands that differed in soil fertility status, cutting ...

  3. Family Fundamentals: Trouble paying bills? Web site offers guidance (for December 2008)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/family-fundamentals-trouble-paying-bills-web-site-offers-guidance-december-2008

    case. A good place to start is http://www.eXtension.org, a web site that brings together experts from ... can sell or if you have items you can return that would erase your debt on them. The Web site offers ... on your debts; and how your credit record will be affected. Decide on a repayment plan. The Web site ...

  4. Late Season Alfalfa Management

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/late-season-alfalfa-management

    probability enters.  In addition, there are factors such as previous cutting management, age of stand, soil ... fertility, variety, and soil moisture that affect the level of risk with fall cutting. For those who are risk ... especially soil potassium levels, and a soil pH near 6.8 will improve plant health and increase tolerance to ...

  5. Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Barrel o' Rain, Barrel o' Fun (for the Week of March 16, 2008)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/smart-stuff-twig-walkingstick-barrel-o-rain-barrel-o-fun-week-march-16-2008

    ://www.phillywater.org/Tacony-Frankford/Rain%20Barrel%20Project%20Web/Build%20Your%20Own/BuildRainBarrel.htm (newspaper article with plans and ... pics); http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/pi/pdf/covington-rain-barrels.pdf (Covington, Wash., Water District); ... and http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/pdfs/rainbarrels.pdf (Washington State University). "Smart ...

  6. Learn to Manage Manure Effectively at Manure Expo, July 9

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/learn-manage-manure-effectively-manure-expo-july-9

    have at their disposal, but managing manure effectively begins with knowing a soil's fertility ... criteria and then documenting and maintaining proper nutrient supply. Robert Mullen, an Ohio State ... University Extension soil fertility specialist, will discuss how manure application rate and timing effect ...

  7. Family Fundamentals: Pets can be a mixed bag for older Americans (for May 2006)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/family-fundamentals-pets-can-be-mixed-bag-older-americans-may-2006

    sign up at our subscription Web site, http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~news/subscribe.php. To get a PDF ... Administration on Aging's Web site at http://www.aoa.gov. I’m in my late 60s, I live alone, and ... information kit available on its Web site at http://www.hsus.org/petsinfuture or by contacting them at ...

  8. Conference to Tout the Latest Trends in Conservation Tillage

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/conference-tout-latest-trends-conservation-tillage

    documenting soybean rust and digitized soil surveys. The tillage conference is sponsored by Ohio State ... to 4:45 p.m. on Feb. 25. Topics of discussion will include vertical tillage, soil density, nitrogen ... management, manure application practices, planter adjustment, drainage, drip irrigation, soil compaction, weed ...

  9. Ag Economist Summarizes Themes of New Farm Bill

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ag-economist-summarizes-themes-new-farm-bill

    through a series of Web-based documents. The papers cover four major areas: farm income and risk ... Election) program. The documents are available at http://aede.osu.edu/resources/docs/display.php?cat=21. ... major provisions that might be worth checking into and reading in the larger document," said ...

  10. August Establishment of Perennial Forages

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/august-establishment-perennial-forages

    caused stand loss in alfalfa fields due to compaction and crown damage from harvest on wet soils, and ... competing with the flush of annual spring and summer weed emergence/growth. The soil borne root rot and ... damping off disease organisms that thrive in cool, wet soils are not an issue. However, growers need to be ...

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