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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.
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Nitrogen in the Environment: How Nitrogen Enters Groundwater
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Nitrate from fertilizers and manure can leach through soil into groundwater, especially in sandy soils or areas with shallow water tables.
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Nitrogen in the Environment: Leaching
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Nitrate leaching occurs when excess water carries nitrates through soil into groundwater, posing health risks, especially to infants.
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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.
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Nitrogen in the Environment: What is Nitrogen?
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Nitrogen, vital to life, exists abundantly in the atmosphere but must be converted for plant use. Excess nitrates can contaminate water, posing health risks.
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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.
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Nitrogen in the Environment: Mineralization — Immobilization
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Nitrogen in soil undergoes mineralization and immobilization, affecting plant growth and water quality. Excess nitrate may contaminate groundwater, posing health risks.
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Nitrogen in the Environment: Nitrogen Cycle
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Nitrogen in the soil can go through many complex chemical & biological changes. Visit our site to learn about Nitrogen in the Environment: Nitrogen Cycle.
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Nitrogen in the Environment: Denitrification
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Denitrification converts soil nitrates to nitrogen gas. It occurs in low-oxygen soils and can impact water quality.
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Nitrogen in the Environment: Nitrogen Fixation
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Nitrogen fixation converts atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable forms, enhancing soil fertility and reducing fertilizer needs.
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Nitrogen in the Environment: Nitrogen Replacement Value of Legumes
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Legumes convert atmospheric nitrogen into usable forms, enriching soil and reducing fertilizer needs for subsequent crops.
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Tiger Card (Bundle of 50)
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This promotional piece is intended for Family Nutrition Education Program employees to use as needed.
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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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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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Nutrient Bar Graph Cards
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Explore over 40 colorful nutrient bar graph cards to compare daily values of key nutrients in various foods, aiding effective nutrition education.
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Preserve It Fresh, Preserve It Safe: 2022, No. 6 (November/December)
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Learn how to safely preserve foods for the holidays, including tips on canning, pickling, and handling home-processed gifts for safe consumption.
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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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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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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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Turfgrass Disease Control
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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.
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 21
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Take-all patch of creeping bentgrass is a soilborne disease caused by a darkly pigmented, ectotrophic root-infecting fungus. The disease is most common on new greens. It also occurs on reconstructed greens, especially when methyl bromide had been used in the renovation.
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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.