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Is a Prenuptial Agreement Right for Your Farm Business?
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-51
Environmental Sciences, Ohio State University Extension Farm and agricultural businesses often have high capital ... may be at risk if they pre-decease their new spouse. As farms increase in size and new family ... and his parents sold 50 acres of their prime farmland and took out a second mortgage. This hampered ...
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Western Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents 2013-14
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/AEDE-15-14
Top land will typically be large tracts of land with highly productive soils. "Average" land ... will tend to be land with lower productivity soils, poor drainage or come in smaller tracts (or ... the rent will tend to be. Variability of Crop Return: Land that exhibits highly variable returns may ...
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Pasteurization of Raw Milk for Home Consumption
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5817
if it comes into contact with tainted water, soil, animals, or other contaminated sources. Outbreaks ... canner. Fill the canner with warm water until the water level is slightly above the milk level in the ... pasteurization of raw milk (SP 50-932). nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resource/Milk-Pasteurization.pdf ...
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Understanding Soil Microbes and Nutrient Recycling
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/SAG-16
and the microbes and soil organisms habitat are destroyed. In a no-till field, high levels of SOM are ... Bacteria 10 8 –10 9 40–500 Actinomycetes 10 7 –10 8 40–500 Fungi 10 5 –10 6 100–1500 Algae 10 4 –10 5 1–50 ... nutrients. Consider the following three scenarios. Soils typically turnover 1 to 3 percent of their nitrogen ...
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Narrow Row Spacing in Corn: Management Considerations for Ohio
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0152
date, hybrid maturity, row spacing, plant population, and input levels (Ahmad et al., 2010). Growers, ... farm level. In recent years, these dynamics have led to some interest in producing corn (Zea mays L.) ... As expected, greater yields were produced at the high-yield-potential site in South Charleston ...
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Growing Peppers in the Home Garden
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-1618
season. Ideally, soil should be well drained and contain high organic matter. However, peppers can thrive ... between 100,000 and 350,000 on the Scoville scale, an index of pepper spiciness. Photo by Dave Horvath. ... transplant roots. Fertilizing Before the growing season, a soil test is recommended. This will help ...
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Grain Quality Attributes of TopCross® High Oil, High Lysine, Waxy, and Conventional Yellow Dent Corns
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/agf-137-99
Field tests were conducted in 1997 to compare the grain quality and agronomic performance of high oil ... acid levels were greater and linoleic and linolenic acid levels lower in TopCross high oil grain than ... differed among corn types. Lysine levels were greatest in the high lysine corn (0.33-0.37%) followed by the ...
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Jason C. Slot
https://plantpath.osu.edu/our-people/jason-c-slot
highly toxic secondary metabolite gene cluster between fungi. Curr Biol 21(2). Slot, J. C. and A. Rokas. ... highly syntenic and stable genomes in the fungal genus Botrytis. Genome biology and evolution, 12 (12), ... 2003-2008 Ph. D. Biology Department, Clark University 2000-2003 Science Teacher, Framingham High School, ...
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Algae for Biofuels
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/AEX-651-11
of the current research and development efforts have focused on microalgae due to their high growth ... oil yield than land oil crops (Table 1). For example, algae with 50% lipid content and a dry biomass ... productivity of 50 g/m²/day can potentially produce 10,000 gallons oil/acre/year (Pienkos, 2007). By ...
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Estimated Return-to-Seed of Variable vs. Uniform Corn Seeding Rates
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/agf-520
to predict or identify areas of consistent yield levels (high, medium, low) and stability (stable vs. ... profitability—can vary within and among fields with small differences in soils and weather. Given the advances in ... are still questions related to how variable rate seeding changes seeding rate, yield level, and ...