Nitrogen in the Environment: How Nitrogen Enters Groundwater

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Reviewed by David Brune
Department of Agricultural Engineering

Scott C. Killpack and Daryl Buchholz
Department of Agronomy

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.

Sewage Treatment Plants for Rural Homes

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Rural residents often must rely on individual waste treatment systems. Learn about the features and functions of an individual plant or package treatment system for handling residential sewage in this guide.

Nitrogen in the Environment: What is Nitrogen?

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Reviewed by David Brune
Department of Agricultural Engineering

Scott C. Killpack and Daryl Buchholz
Department of Agronomy

Nitrogen in the Environment: Ammonia Volatilization

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Ammonia gas can be lost from the soil and return to the atmosphere. Visit our site to learn about Nitrogen in the Environment: Ammonia Volatilization.

Nitrogen in the Environment: Mineralization — Immobilization

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Reviewed by David Brune
Department of Agricultural Engineering

Scott C. Killpack and Daryl Buchholz
Department of Agronomy

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.

Preparing Petroleum-Powered Vehicles for Winter Weather

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Reviewed by Conne Burnham
MU Extension Emergency Management 

Bob Schultheis
MU Extension natural resource engineering specialist in Webster County

Three Types of Farm Meetings to Strengthen the Business and Start a Farm Transition Plan

New

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

Pecan Pest Management: Insects and Diseases

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Reviewed by Peng Tian
Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences

Reviewed by Manoj Chhetri
Department of Horticulture

George S. Smith and Maureen H. O'Day
Department of Entomology

William Reid
Kansas State University

Establishment and Care of Zoysiagrass Lawns

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Zoysiagrass is a warm-season grass that grows best in full sun. It can be established in several ways. Learn how to establish and care for a zoysiagrass lawn in this guide.

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 03

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Anthracnose basal rot is a destructive crown rotting disease of creeping bentgrass and annual bluegrass on putting greens. On mixed bentgrass/annual bluegrass putting greens, the causal fungus infects one species or the other but rarely both.

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 06

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Copper spot is a foliar disease of bentgrass, with severest outbreaks occurring on velvet bentgrass. It also occurs sporadically on creeping bentgrass greens and higher cut creeping bentgrass tees and fairways. Gloeocercospora sorghi causes a leaf spot of bermudagrass and zoysiagrass as well.

Biology and Management of Waterhemp

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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

Dawn Nordby, University of Illinois
Bob Hartzler, Iowa State University
Kevin Bradley, University of Missouri

Natural Lawn Care

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Reviewed by Peng Tian
Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences

Reviewed by Manoj Chhetri
Department of Horticulture

Brad S. Fresenburg
Assistant Extension Professor and Turfgrass State Specialist
Division of Plant Sciences

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 09

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Drechslera diseases are part of a group of diseases caused by fungi that were once cataloged in the genus Helminthosporium. Over the years, taxonomists have revised the genus Helminthosporium to include the genera Drechslera, Marielliotta, Bipolaris and Exserohilum. This section covers the diseases Drechslera leaf spot and melting-out caused by D. poae and red leaf spot caused by D. erythrospila.

Bermudagrass for Athletic Fields

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Reviewed by Peng Tian
Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences

Reviewed by Manoj Chhetri
Department of Horticulture

Brad S. Fresenburg
Department of Horticulture

Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 12

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Gray snow mold is a winter turfgrass disease in regions where snow cover persists for long periods. All grasses can be damaged to some extent, but injury is often more severe on annual bluegrass and bentgrass putting greens.

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