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Milk Snakes vs. Copperhead Snakes: How to Tell Them Apart
https://jefferson.osu.edu/news/milk-snakes-vs-copperhead-snakes-how-tell-them-apart
alternating bands of red, black, and yellow or white, and their patterns are typically striped or banded. In ... contrast, copperheads have a distinctive hourglass-shaped crossband pattern in shades of brown, tan, and ... Ohio, milk snakes are habitat generalists and can be found in a variety of environments, including ...
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Help Shape the Future of Agricultural Information
decisions on your farm or in your business? Researchers at the College of Food, Agricultural, and ... Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University want to hear from you. As part of a national study on ... digital communication in agriculture, they’re inviting producers and agribusiness professionals to share ...
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Urban Ag Production
Production Soil-based production systems are foundational in Ohio’s urban agriculture. This section offers ... guidance on vegetable and fruit production practices, including soil balancing, the use of microbial ... Quick Guide: What You Can Do to Help Pollinators Bumble Bees and Solitary Bees & Wasps in Urban ...
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Tackling Heat Stress with Precision: The Role of Technology in Dairy Cow Welfare and Production
information to guide day-to-day decisions. Activity Tracking Changes in cow behavior are often early signs of ... 2016; Marques et al., 2024). Rumination collars track a range of measures, including rumination and ... lying time. Â A noticeable drop in lying behavior or rumination could signal early signs of heat stress ...
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Using Manure with Corn
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-15/using-manure-corn
for corn has arrived. The application of manure to corn can make excellent use of the available manure ... to manure incorporation equipment to side-dress corn. Spreading manure on the surface of corn fields ... can also capture most of the liquid manure nitrogen. Surface applying liquid manure to corn fields ...
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OSU Extension offers tick safety tips, testing options in Wayne County
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/osu-extension-offers-tick-safety-tips-testing-options-wayne-county
expanded, from first being identified in Virginia, to now being found in almost all of Eastern Ohio. Most ... a summer weather outlook and tours of the OSU wheat and barley breeding plots and the USDA ARS Soft Wheat ... Quality Lab. The program is sponsored by the Ohio Corn and Wheat Board and is free to all attendees. Dairy ...
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Cool Tips for Managing Heat Stress in Dairy Cows
lower milk production. While it’s easy to spot cows in visible distress (Figure 2), subtle signs of heat ... their behaviour (Figure 1) and body functions- but when heat builds up faster than they can get rid of ... Israel Obadare, MS Graduate Student and Dr. Grazyne Tresoldi, Assistant Professor, Department of ...
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Recent Rain Patterns: Implications on Nitrogen Management for Wheat Production
. https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2016-05/when-best-time-apply-n-wheat  Lentz, E. Paul, P. and Lindsey. L. 2016. What is the Meaning of Feekes Growth Stages in Wheat ... without seeing a yield penalty. In most areas of Ohio, wheat enters Feekes Growth Stage 6 around mid- to ... References/Resources: Lentz, E. and Lindsey, L. 2016. When is the Best Time to Apply N to Wheat. C.O.R.N newsletter ...
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They’re Heeeere! Periodical Cicadas Emerge in Southern Ohio
https://williams.osu.edu/news/they%E2%80%99re-heeeere-periodical-cicadas-emerge-southern-ohio
every 17 years. The last appearance of this brood was in 2008. We need your help! Gene Kritsky ... Authors: Joe Boggs Published on May 22, 2025 The emergence of Brood XIV (14) of the 17 ... species of the 17-year periodical cicadas: M. cassini, M. septendecim, and M. septendecula. You can ...
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HCS Alumni Spotlight: Todd Peterson
https://hcs.osu.edu/news/alumni-todd
Management of Winter Wheat on Grain Yield, Straw Yield, Grain Quality, and Economic Returns " in 2021 ... Todd Peterson studied plant science with us here in the Department of Horticulture & Crop ... machinery, and attending continuing learning events. Currently, we are in the middle of planting, so when the ...