Drought-Related Issues in Forage, Silage and Baleage
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Get answers to questions about how to feed livestock during drought. Read about nitrate toxicity, corn silage and baleage, forage grazing and feeding hay.
Pricing Corn Silage
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Learn how to price corn silage whether it's in the field or delivered to storage or the feed bunk, and see how drought can damage a corn silage crop.
Growing Azaleas and Rhododendrons
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Flowering Perennials: Characteristics and Culture
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Flowering perennials persist from year to year and are suitable in a flower border shared with annual plants or grouped in special plantings. Learn about some major perennials and their important characteristics and cultural preferences in this guide.
Spring Flowering Bulbs: Daffodils
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Few garden plants give as much pleasure with as little effort as daffodils. They are one of the most vigorous and colorful flowers of spring. With good drainage they thrive in most soils, although they prefer a medium-heavy loam.
High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 03
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Melon aphids congregate on lower leaf surfaces and cause cupping of the leaves
High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 06
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The dry, humid and dense plant growth within a high tunnel is optimal for development of powdery mildew.
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Whiteflies are small, soft-bodied insects with wings covered with white, powdery wax that damage plants by sucking the sap and transmitting harmful viruses.
High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production
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High tunnels are low-cost, passive, solar plant forcing structures that use no fossil fuels for heating or venting and provide many benefits to horticulture crop producers
High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 04
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Bacterial wilt is a serious disease of melons that is transmitted by spotted and striped cucumber beetles that feed on melon foliage.
High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 07
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Spider mites are small, oval-shaped arthropods that can be found on the underside of leaves, where they congregate and suck sap from the plant.
High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 10
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Find sources of melon and watermelon seeds
High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 02
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Maintaining healthy, nonstressed plants, managing the high tunnel environment properly, preserving beneficial insects and early pest detection will prevent many pests from becoming a problem within the high tunnel.
High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 05
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Within two weeks after transplanting, begin scouting for cucumber beetles in the high tunnel. Use yellow sticky traps to detect cucumber beetles.
High Tunnel Melon and Watermelon Production, Page 08
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Thrips are small, elongated insects that can be a serious insect pest of high tunnel melons and watermelons and are usually found clustered in flowers and on the underside of leaves.
Water Analysis — Individual Tests Form
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The Soil and Plant Laboratory can test your water for irrigation, domestic, poultry or livestock suitability or run specific individual tests. Water analysis can be used to determine suitability for several purposes, such as for homeowners, irrigation or for use by livestock and poultry.
Water Analysis — Special Test Packages
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The testing packages in this form target specific nutrients to provide a more complete picture of water quality for a particular use. Use this form to obtain a detailed water analysis from the MU Soil and Plant Testing Lab.
Collective Bargaining 1: Historical Models of Collective Bargaining in the U.S. - Page 2
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Economic framework for collective bargaining The economic framework for collective bargaining
The model of collective bargaining that has dominated American industrial relations since the 1930s relies on the relati
Collective Bargaining 1: Historical Models of Collective Bargaining in the U.S. - Page 5
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Organization of the relevant workforce Organization of the relevant workforce
To solidify bargaining power, an important union goal is to organize those workers that represent a threat to union member wage levels and job secur
Collective Bargaining 3: Effective Negotiations, Background Information
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Introduction Revised by Douglas Swanson, June 2022