Residential Sewage Lagoon Systems: A Homeowner's Guide to Installation and Maintenance
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If your home has an onsite wastewater treatment system, you need to ensure it is properly maintained. It must also meet construction and permitting standards for onsite sewage systems. Learn how to install and maintain a lagoon system in this guide.
Nitrogen in the Environment: Nitrogen’s Most Common Forms
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Nitrogen is important for all plants and it comes in many forms. Visit our site to learn about Nitrogen in the Environment: Nitrogen's Most Common Forms.
Nitrogen in the Environment: Leaching
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Nitrate leaching can have a direct impact on water quality. Visit our site to view our Nitrogen in the Environment: Leaching resource.
Tiger Card (Bundle of 50)
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The following abstract describes a publication that is only available for purchase.
Three Types of Farm Meetings to Strengthen the Business and Start a Farm Transition Plan
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Use operating, business and family council meetings to build a culture of communication and inclusive decision-making in your family business. Find guidelines for running a successful family meeting, and when to use different meetings in this publication.
Economic Budgeting for Agroforestry Practices
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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
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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.
Crop-Share Leases in Missouri
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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.
Integrating Agroforestry Practices for Wildlife Habitat
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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.
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.
The Facts on Fat Handout (Bundle of 25)
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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.
Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 22
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Yellow patch is a cool-season disease that occurs on bentgrass and annual bluegrass putting greens and sometimes on higher-gut Kentucky bluegrass.
Understanding Glyphosate to Increase Performance
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Common Weed Seedlings of the North Central States
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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.
Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 02
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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
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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, Page 08
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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
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 11
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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.