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  1. Lace Bugs

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-2150-10

    adults and nymphs can be looked for by turning over affected leaves. Adult lace bugs are about 1/8 inch ... scattered about with concentrations along the leaf veins. Concentrations of this excrement along the veins ... nymphs and adults are feeding. Additional applications may be needed to control nymphs hatching out of ...

  2. Precision Agriculture Tools for On-Farm Research

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/fabe-558

    technologies continues to grow on U.S. farms. Auto-guidance, variable-rate technology (VRT), and yield monitors ... information about conducting on-farm research is available in the 2017 Ohio Agronomy Guide published by the ... rate. The time to make a rate change can be as long as three seconds or longer for some application ...

  3. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/vme-1037

    dead birds from all farms on the pickup route. APHIS has materials about biosecurity, including videos, ... cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/types.htm. International Steering Committee for Surveillance for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild ...

  4. Drought Stress On Turfgrass Is Underway

    https://wayne.osu.edu/news/drought-stress-turfgrass-underway

    rainfall across the state compared to the 30-year normal. As a result, the U.S. Drought Monitor ...

  5. Native Shrubs: Creating Living Landscapes for Birds, Butterflies, Bees, and Other Beneficials

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5813

    primarily as food for juvenile bees. Specialist Bees: About a third of all bee species are pollen ... larval host for about 200 species of butterflies and moths, including the red-spotted purple and the ... ducks and other waterfowl when grown along pond edges. Buttonbush is a larval host plant for about two ...

  6. Strategies for Successful Health

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/SS-125

    SNAP-Ed Regional Program Specialist, Family and Consumer Sciences, Oh In the 1950s, the U.S. Department of ... groups turned into the Basic 4 about 40 years ago. It next became a food guide pyramid based on five ... choices. It gives a visual cure, using a place setting for a meal. This encourages people to think about ...

  7. Shared Harvest

    https://darke.osu.edu/news/shared-harves

    civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this ... (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or ... letter must be submitted to USDA by: 1.  mail:  U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Assistant ...

  8. STEAM students enjoy a day at South Centers

    https://southcenters.osu.edu/steam-students-enjoy-day-south-centers

    School District visited The Ohio State University South Centers in May to learn more about facility’s ... learn more about aquaponics, aquaculture, and specialty crops. It was also an emotional one for K-4 ... Harker to learn about how crops like lettuce can grow on top of the water in an aquaponics system. He ...

  9. OSU Soil Organic Matter Calculator

    https://southcenters.osu.edu/soil-water-bioenergy/extention/som-soil-organic-matter-calculator

    response to cropping pattern, tillage, manure application, erosion, cover crops and stover removal. (Click ...

  10. Bumble Bees in Ohio: Natural History and Identification of Common Species

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-84

    bumble bees, with about a dozen species seen in Ohio. These bees play an important role as pollinators of ... secretes wax to create comb and then lays about a dozen eggs. She mated with a drone last fall, and has ... About two weeks later, the larvae pupate, then emerge in about another two weeks as adult workers. ...

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