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  1. Canning Season Tips & Tricks, And Safety Measures Too

    https://wayne.osu.edu/news/canning-season-tips-tricks-and-safety-measures-too

    (https://nchfp.uga.edu/index.htm) where you will find a great library of tested recipes.  They also have a great curriculum for ... be the key to high-quality outcomes with your produce.  Take inventory of what you have left from ... that’s.edu for tested, research-based, recipes. *If canning, please read the instructions on the lid ...

  2. Livestock Can't Take The Heat- Ways To Cool Them Down

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    index (THI) is a chart that was created to factor in the temperature and humidity to create thresholds ... 'alert' zone of 75 on the THI chart. A thermal heat index of 84 is the 'emergency' zone where ... extreme caution needs to be taken for our livestock. The emergency level can be reached at a temperature ...

  3. Opportunities for Subsurface Nutrient Placement in Ohio

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

    horsepower requirements, the level of tillage and soil disruption, depth of fertilizer placement, and ... inches wide) while leaving the soil between these strips undisturbed. When the strip-till unit is ... to conventional tillage by leaving residue on the soil surface between the strips. Quicker spring ...

  4. Hot Water and Chlorine Treatments to Eradicate Bacterial Plant Pathogens from Vegetable Seeds

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5818

    F (50 C), or the temperature indicated for the seed type being tested (see Table 1). Place container in ... may be damaged by hot water. It is highly recommended that a small sample of each seed lot be treated ... and tested for germination (see below) prior to treating the entire lot. Chlorine treatment is easier ...

  5. Interpreting a Soil Test Report

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/agf-0514

    suitability to grow a chosen crop. Phosphorous and potassium soil test levels help us know if fertilizer is ... values is needed if they are not reported as ppm using a Mehlich 3 soil test. Soil test values reported ... in pounds per acre are converted to ppm by dividing pounds per acre by 2. If phosphorus soil test ...

  6. The Case for an Outside Board of Directors for Closely Held Farm and Agricultural Businesses

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/aede-0019

    That Can Sink a Startup, Wasserman states that entrepreneurs "face a choice between making money ... almost all firms operate somewhere between these two extremes. However, if your closely held business has ... helpful in creating that separation. A healthy separation between closely held companies and their owners ...

  7. Gypsum for Agricultural Use in Ohio—Sources and Quality of Available Products

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-20

    to elevated levels. Unwashed FGD by-products can have levels of B sufficiently high to result in ... Professor This fact sheet provides information on gypsum as a soil amendment, the sources and mineral ... metal content of gypsum samples.  The Role of Gypsum as a Soil Amendment Gypsum is hydrated calcium ...

  8. Now That Wheat Is Down, What's Next? Some Ideas For Fields

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    a high nitrogen demand, and you may consider an application of 100 lbs of nitrogen. Sudangrass, sorghum ... lbs/acre and rape at 3.5 to 4.0 lbs/acre. Apply 100 to 150 lbs of urea per acre (if not incorporating, try ... aware of.  First, the Richland County Soil and Water office will be hosting a grazing school on July 23 ...

  9. Feeding Horses

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-6

    (from forage analysis) 1.07 15.4 0.94 0.41 Pelleted Grain (from feed tag) 1.50 12.0 0.75 0.85 ... we need to substitute grain for hay to raise the energy. 1.50 Mcal/lb DE of grain – 1.07 Mcal/lb DE ... source of sulfur. Excessively high levels of sulfur depress copper absorption. Sulfur is also found in ...

  10. Corn Growing Degree Days: A Method of Maturity Rating for Hybrids

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/agf-101

    different scenarios; it provides county-level estimates based on historical GDDs accumulation, planting ... calculated in several ways, the most used method is to subtract 50 degrees Fahrenheit from the mean daily ... temperature. This method of calculating GDD is often called the “86/50 corn system.” This GDD calculation ...

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