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  1. Officials Discover Hemlock Pest in Scioto County

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/officials-discover-hemlock-pest-scioto-county

    COLUMBUS, Jul. 5, 2017— The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) today announced the discovery of a hemlock-killing pest in Scioto County in southern Ohio. The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) is a small, ap ...

  2. Turn Your Favorite Tree Into Many, by Grafting

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    WOOSTER, Ohio — There’s a gardening skill called grafting. It’s used a lot on apple trees. And it can help you turn a favorite tree — whether an apple, a pear, a dogwood or another — into more new trees just like it. When someone grafts a tree, they splic ...

  3. Family, Fun, Fireflies: OARDC Insect Night Is July 15

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/family-fun-fireflies-oardc-insect-night-july-15

    WOOSTER, Ohio — Certain kinds of creepy crawlers only come out at night. They’ll star at an upcoming event in Wooster. Secrest Arboretum’s annual Insect Night — a free public event for bug-crazy kids, their families and others — is from 8 to 10:30 p.m. Ju ...

  4. Late Corn Better Than Blighted Corn

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    Growers whose corn crops were harmed by excessive rain in April and May likely will have enough growing days left in the season if they replant in the next two to three weeks, according to an Ohio State University agronomist. “If they replanted soon, it w ...

  5. Slugs Likely to Thrive This Summer

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    COLUMBUS, Ohio — Something very small has benefited from the heavy rainfall that has played havoc with field crops statewide: the slimy and frequently hungry gray garden slug. Planting corns and soybeans early sometimes helps reduce the amount of damage f ...

  6. Media Advisory: Ohio State Experts Can Speak on Salmonella, Backyard Chickens

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/media-advisory-ohio-state-experts-can-speak-salmonella-backyard-chickens

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — With 32 people infected, Ohio has the highest number of Salmonella cases in a recent outbreak involving 47 states where people had contact with backyard poultry flocks. Two experts from the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental ...

  7. See How a Tree Grown in Northern Ohio Becomes, Say, an Amish-Made Dining Room Chair

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/see-how-tree-grown-northern-ohio-becomes-say-amish-made-dining-room-chair

    MANSFIELD, Ohio — A June 20 tour in northern Ohio will show how trees get turned into products, including Amish-made lumber and furniture. “We hope people find it an eye-opening experience,” said co-organizer Kathy Smith, a forestry expert at The Ohio Sta ...

  8. Gardeners: This Class Can Help Win Your War on Weeds

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/gardeners-class-can-help-win-your-war-weeds

    WOOSTER, Ohio — Secrest Arboretum, like gardens everywhere, has its share of weeds. And Paul Snyder, who works there as a program assistant, has seen their best and worst. Canada thistle, common moonseed and marestail are the toughest to manage, Snyder sa ...

  9. Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Carried Diseases on the Rise in Ohio

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/lyme-disease-and-other-tick-carried-diseases-rise-ohio

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — A steadily rising number of Lyme disease cases are being reported in Ohio transmitted by a tick that can be as small as a poppy seed. Every year since 2010, when Ohio’s first population of blacklegged deer ticks was discovered in Coshocto ...

  10. Upcoming OSU Weed Day on July 12

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    SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio – As weeds such as marestail become more of a problem for corn and soybean growers, scientists in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University are putting more resources into the researc ...

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