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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tiger Card (Bundle of 50)
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Nutrient Bar Graph Cards
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases
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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.
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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.
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Natural Lawn Care
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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.
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Biology and Management of Giant Ragweed
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Bermudagrass for Athletic Fields
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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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Facts About Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 15
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Microdochium patch is most common on new bentgrass greens under cover or in situations where nitrogen fertility was high going into the winter.
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 18
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Rust occurs to some extent on all turfgrasses, but the rust fungi are generally host specific. Rust is most severe on susceptible cultivars of Kentucky bluegrass, tall fescue, perennial ryegrass and zoysiagrass. Rust symptoms usually appear in late August to early September and continue through the fall months.