Crop-Share Leases in Missouri

Revised

Producers expand their base of operations by purchasing or renting additional land. The three most common types of farmland lease agreements in Missouri are cash rentals, flexible-cash leases and crop-share leases. This guide presents information on crop-share leases.

Preparing Petroleum-Powered Vehicles for Winter Weather

Reviewed

Reviewed by Conne Burnham
MU Extension Emergency Management 

Bob Schultheis
MU Extension natural resource engineering specialist in Webster County

The Facts on Fat Handout (Bundle of 25)

Revised $12

This handout explains how much dietary fat is recommended daily and provides a list of foods with healthy fats. It also discusses saturated fat and provides tips on limiting it.

Tiger Card (Bundle of 50)

Reviewed $26

Editor’s note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available for purchase.

Integrating Agroforestry Practices for Wildlife Habitat

Revised

Learn how to incorporate management of trees, shrubs and grasses with your current farm practices to benefit white-tailed deer, eastern wild turkey, bobwhite quail, waterfowl and mourning doves.

Economic Budgeting for Agroforestry Practices

Revised

See the steps and examples you can follow to develop enterprise budgets, create a cashflow plan and estimate economic indicators for agroforestry practices.

Growing Shiitake Mushrooms in an Agroforestry Practice

Revised

Cultivating shiitake mushrooms represents an opportunity to utilize healthy low-grade and small-diameter trees thinned from woodlots as well as healthy branch-wood cut from the tops of harvested saw-timber trees. When the mushrooms are collected and marketed, the result is a relatively short-term payback for long-term management of wooded areas.

Nutrient Bar Graph Cards

New $30

This publication comprises 8½×11-inch cards for more than 40 different foods. Each card includes a large colorful bar graph that displays the percent daily value for many of the nutrients found in a food.

Understanding Glyphosate to Increase Performance

Review

Editor’s note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.

Reviewed by Kevin Bradley
Division of Plant Sciences

Bob Hartzler, Iowa State University
Chris Boerboom, University of Wisconsin
Glenn Nice, Purdue University
Peter Sikkema, University of Guelph

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 19

Reviewed

Spring dead spot is a destructive disease of common bermudagrass and bermudagrass hybrids throughout the northern range of its adaptation in the U.S.

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 22

Reviewed

Yellow patch is a cool-season disease that occurs on bentgrass and annual bluegrass putting greens and sometimes on higher-gut Kentucky bluegrass.

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 02

Reviewed

Accurate diagnosis is the key to managing turfgrass disease in an environmentally and economically sound manner. When the cause is not accurately identified and management practices and control measures are not developed accordingly, inputs are wasted and high reestablishment costs may be incurred.

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 05

Reviewed

Brown patch is a sheath- and leaf-blighting summer disease that is common on tall fescue and bentgrass. It is particularly severe on tall fescue. With increased use of tall fescue in urban and commercial landscapes, brown patch has become a significant management problem.

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases

Reviewed

This publication is designed to be a useful reference for diagnosticians, turfgrass managers, industry representatives and others who want to learn how to diagnose and manage common turfgrass diseases caused by plant pathogenic fungi.

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 08

Reviewed

Dollar spot is a common disease on creeping bentgrass, Kentucky bluegrass and perennial ryegrass, but it is rare on tall fescue. It also occurs on zoysiagrass, bermudagrass, buffalograss and annual bluegrass .

Turfgrass Disease Control

Revised

Reviewed by Peng Tian
Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences

Reviewed by Manoj Chhetri
Department of Horticulture

Brad S. Fresenburg
Division of Plant Sciences

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 11

Reviewed

Gray leaf spot, also called blast, occurs in most areas of the country where perennial ryegrass is grown. Disease development is sporadic with little or no disease development in some years. Nevertheless, the potential destructiveness of gray leaf spot forces many turfgrass managers to apply preventive fungicide applications every year.

Biology and Management of Giant Ragweed

Reviewed

Editor’s note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 14

Reviewed

Rhizoctonia zeae forms pink to orange bulbils (resting structures). The fungus has been observed with increasing frequency since the early 2000s.

Facts About Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds

Reviewed

Editor’s note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.

Reviewed by Kevin Bradley
Division of Plant Sciences

Chris Boerboom, University of Wisconsin
Micheal Owen, Iowa State University

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 17

Reviewed

Pythium foliar blight is one of the most feared turfgrass diseases, because the disease develops rapidly during periods of high temperature and high relative humidity. If left untreated, extensive loss of turf can occur in a few days.

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 20

Reviewed

Summer patch, sometimes referred to as frogeye patch, is a destructive disease of Kentucky bluegrass maintained for golf course fairways, green surrounds, parks and residential landscapes

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 23

Reviewed

Yellow tuft is a cool-season disease that is commonly observed on creeping bentgrass and intensively managed Kentucky bluegrass.

Common Weed Seedlings of the North Central States

Reviewed

Editor’s note
The following abstract describes a publication that is available for purchase from Michigan State Extension. To order this publication, please visit the MSU Extension Bookstore.

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