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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cool-Season Grass Cultivars for Athletic Fields
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This guide provides turfgrass recommendations for athletic fields, emphasizing irrigation, traffic-tolerant cultivars, and effective seeding methods.
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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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Common Weed Seedlings of the North Central States
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Editor’s note
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.
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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 Giant Ragweed
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Editor’s note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.
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Facts About Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds
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Editor’s note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 04
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Ascochyta leaf blight results in the rapid development of large irregularly shaped, straw-colored patches on Kentucky bluegrass and occasionally on tall fescue and perennial ryegrass during the summer. Because Ascochyta spp. are primarily foliar pathogens, diseased turfgrass usually recovers relatively quickly.
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 07
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Dead spot is a disease of new sand-based bentgrass greens or renovated greens where methyl bromide was used in the renovation. The disease first occurs one to four years after construction or renovation, gradually disappearing one to three years after its first occurrence.
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 10
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Fairy ring is caused by more than 60 basidiomycete fungi, including those producing the familiar puffballs and toadstools. The rings result from the activities of these fungi growing radially through the thatch or soil, rather than from a direct parasitic relationship with the turfgrass.
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Turfgrass Disease Control
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 13
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Large patch is a cool-season disease of warm-season grasses. Symptoms are most common when these grasses are either entering or coming out of dormancy.
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 16
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Necrotic ring spot is a destructive disease of Kentucky bluegrass, but may also occur on red fescue and annual bluegrass. The disease is particularly damaging to bluegrass.
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Protecting Water Quality During Lawn Establishment and Renovation
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Establishing a healthy lawn enhances your landscape and benefits the environment. Learn best practices to protect water quality during lawn establishment.
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Identification and Management of Turfgrass Diseases, Page 19
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Spring dead spot is a destructive disease of common bermudagrass and bermudagrass hybrids throughout the northern range of its adaptation in the U.S.
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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.