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DATA COLLECTOR: Note the information displayed in the middle of the planter monitor screen on organic matter, soil moisture and more. It’s sent to the cab from Smart Firmers on the planter. This is just one example of how you could make better management decisions based on data collected on your farm.
Technology that allows you to collect more data in the field than ever before and use that data to make crop management decisions is here. You can buy it today, and more is coming, says John Fulton, an Ohio State University Extension specialist.
He recently told Indiana certified crop advisers through a virtual session that prescriptive agriculture is the wave of the future. Collect and store data, then use it to make prescription maps to program equipment to make succinct changes in input rate or even input choice on the same pass across the field that is prescription agriculture at its core.
Controlling crabgrass in your lawn
Some of the earliest emerging broadleaf weeds have begun to emerge. The biggest problem with weeds in turfgrass is reduced aesthetic value, although some weeds can out compete turfgrass when management is reduced.
Smooth and large crabgrass, yellow foxtail, and annual bluegrass are the most frequent annual grass weeds in turfgrass.
Smooth crabgrass emerges in the spring before large crabgrass. Smooth crabgrass emergence begins slowly when soil temperatures in the upper inch of soil reaches 54 degrees for seven days and moisture is available. This soil temperature occurs many times when the dogwood begin to flower and the forsythia flowers begin to fade. Visit greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature to track soil temperature for your area.
Veggies - raw or cooked?
PAULDING – Is it healthier to eat vegetables raw or cooked?
Well, that depends on which vegetables you are talking about.
While
most vegetables are better eaten raw, there are a few you could cook
instead to gain more health benefits, said Beth Stefura, a family and
consumer sciences educator with Ohio State University Extension. OSU
Extension is the outreach arm of The Ohio State University College of
Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).
“Cooking
some vegetables releases nutrients that your body can more easily
absorb,” she writes in Vegetables That Are Healthier Cooked, a blog post
Farm Office will analyze pandemic help
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Ohio State University Extension’s next Farm Office Live webinar will focus on details of the USDA’s pandemic assistance for Producers Initiative announced on March 24, 2021. Changes were made in an effort to reach a greater share of farming operations and improve USDA pandemic assistance.
During the webinar, Extension educators will share details about the pandemic initiative and discussing some of the changes made to the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). The Farm Office Team will also provide a legislative update and discuss changes to the Paycheck Protection Program and Employee Retention Credits. They will also be on hand to answer your questions and address any related issues.