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Goals: To teach the safe use of firearms and bows on the shooting range, in the field and to instill home firearms responsibility. To develop the skills to properly handle and fire various types of ...
March 4 marked the first renewable energy regional workshop and bus tour hosted by the Center for Energy Education, Purdue Extension community development and CN Consulting.
In the simplest terms, a crop growing season refers to that period of the year when seasonal weather is favorable for growth. In the Corn Belt, the "growing season" is often defined as the number of ...
IPM is a science-based decision-making process. It can be thought of as a series of 5 steps. Each step provides information on which to base a decision, or feedback to inform future pest control ...
Arrange to have a security survey conducted. Your insurance agent probably performed a limited assessment of your property to identify risks on which to base premiums. But since insurance appraisals ...
Stalk rots occur to a greater or lesser degree every year in Indiana. Losses from stalk rots may occur directly when plants are prematurely killed and ears are lightweight and poorly finished or ...
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Because of the tight supplies and soaring costs of nitrogen materials, Indiana farmers are taking a critical second look at their fertilizer programs. The object of such an evaluation is to insure the ...
The mode-of-action is the overall manner in which a herbicide affects a plant at the tissue or cellular level. Herbicides with the same mode-of- action will have the same translocation (movement) ...
George Bender, National Crop Insurance Adjusters Gerry Posler, Kansas State University Dale Hicks, University of Minnesota Jim Rink, Farm Bureau Crop Insurance In the U.S., approximately half of all ...
Calves under one year of age are more susceptible than older cattle. Older cattle frequently have been exposed to the parasites and developed a degree of immunity. Adult worms in the gut of cattle ...
Edward J. Sheldon, M.S. William E. Field, Ed.D. Scott D. Whitman, M.S. The authors would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions to the development of this document: Greg ...