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Annual Forage Crops
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/annual-forage-crops
mixtures are especially useful when harvested as silage. The seed cost of annual legumes is usually higher ... long rest periods are needed: and to extend the grazing season in the fall and early spring. Most ... operations, but it should also be considered for any operation in need of supplemental forage during the ...
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Perennial Warm-Season Grasses
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/perennial-warm-season-grasses
choice among farmers trying a warm-season grass for the first time. The seed is clean, free flowing and ... need to be followed closely to assist in germination of this species. A seeding year stand of ... following species are winter-hardy and grow in all areas of Ohio. They can be seeded alone or as a mixture, ...
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Protecting farm assets from long-term care costs
answer could mean selling off land or equipment to cover rising longterm care costs —now topping $100,000 ... CFAES. “If someone needs nursing home care, those costs must be paid — and they require cash.” Unlike ... recommends families assess their long-term care risk before costs arise. “The first step is understanding how ...
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Application of Manure to Double-Crop Soybeans to Encourage Emergence
salt and nitrogen in the manure and the germinating soybean seed. It is also important that livestock ... application window each year. In recent years there has been more interest from livestock producers in ... fields have reasonable soil moisture today, the very hot weather could result in dry soil conditions by ...
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Soybean Yield Response to Long-term No-tillage Across Contrasting Ohio Soils
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0184
no-tillage and crop rotation experiment (soilfertility.osu.edu/research/long-term-tillage-plots). Building on ... over six decades of data (1962–2024), de Camargo Santos et al. (2025) compared three tillage ... shares key findings from this ongoing research. The research took place at two locations in Ohio with ...
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Insect Pest Management
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/insect-pest-management
can cause severe yield and quality losses in alfalfa. New alfalfa seedings are especially vulnerable ... alfalfa is under stress, especially for new seedings. Potato leafhopper-resistant alfalfa varieties offer ... abundant. In general, foliar injury by alfalfa weevil occurs on the first cutting of alfalfa. During periods ...
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Stack Smart: Daily Hay Temperature Checks Could Save Your Barn
https://wayne.osu.edu/news/stack-smart-daily-hay-temperature-checks-could-save-your-barn
$20 each. Sample information forms can be completed at drop off or you can find them on the beef team ... also be updates from ODA Director Brian Baldridge, new OSU Extension ANR Program Leader Chris Zoller, ... make dry hay. The persistent rains and high humidity have made it difficult to get dry hay made ...
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Douglas Karcher reappointed chair of Department of Horticulture and Crop Science
years,” said Karcher, noting that he has hired 13 new faculty members during his first term and will shift ... college priorities and funding obligations. OSU Extension is CFAES’ outreach arm. “I’m grateful for the ... focus toward, “expanding the impact of our teaching, research and OSU Extension programs, and to further ...
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2025 STATE FAIR DELEGATES & ALTERNATES
https://ashtabula.osu.edu/news/2025-state-fair-delegates-alternates
alternates. Registration packets with information and county judging sheets will be available starting July 16 ... p.m. Please call Cheyenne at the Extension Office at 440-576-9008 or email butler.1466@osu.edu prior ... expectations may be found in the State Fair 4-H Non-Livestock Guidebook. ...
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Dane and Bekah Peck share their CFAES story
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) community. They’re committed to making ... State grad (shout-out to my Mama!), and a first-generation CFAES grad. Through multiple youth ag and ... exponentially in the two decades since. D: The Waterman Controlled Environment Agriculture Research Complex ...