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Preserving Forage as Hay and Silage
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/preserving-forage-hay-and-silage
Good management practices are required for storing forage as either dry hay or as silage or balage (individually wrapped bales, in plastic tubes or chopped into silo bags). In general, putting up silage or haylage will result in less forage yield loss and ...
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Insect Pest Management
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/insect-pest-management
Management of forage insect pests is important to achieve high yields of high-quality forage. The primary insect problems in Ohio are the alfalfa weevil and the potato leafhopper in alfalfa. The alfalfa weevil is primarily active in the spring. The potato ...
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Annual Forage Crops
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/annual-forage-crops
Annual forage crops can be used effectively in forage production systems. These crops can be used to provide supplemental feed when perennial forages are less productive; to provide emergency feed when perennial crops fail; to serve as interim crops betwe ...
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Perennial Warm-Season Grasses
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/perennial-warm-season-grasses
The native, perennial, warm-season grasses have the potential to produce good hay and pasture growth during the warm and dry mid-summer months. These grasses initiate growth in late April or early May and produce 65%–75% of their growth from mid-June to m ...
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Disease Management in Forages
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/disease-management-forages
Diseases can negatively affect stand establishment, limit yields and hasten stand decline in established forage crops. Effects of disease on individual plants vary widely. Some diseases are lethal while others cause only stunting or leaf loss, reducing yi ...
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Butler Extension Office Closed during County Fair
https://butler.osu.edu/news/butler-extension-office-closed-during-county-fair
The Ohio State University Butler County Extension Office will be closed to walk-in traffic during the week of the Butler County Fair, July 20-26 as staff members will be at the fair much of the week. Questions can be left using the voice mail system when ...
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SE Ohio Hay Day
https://agcrops.osu.edu/events/se-ohio-hay-day
“Hello, Mother Nature? Are you there? Am I coming in clear? I’d like to request a few hay days, please.” Does this sound familiar? If you have been putting in calls to Mother Nature and prayers to the heavens for better hay-making weather, you certainly a ...
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Women in Agriculture Wednesday Webinars- Upcoming Topics and Recordings
https://hardin.osu.edu/news/women-agriculture-wednesday-webinars-upcoming-topics-and-recordings
Good news! You can now visit the Ohio Women in Agriculture Learning Network blogsite at the following link: Wednesday Women in Agriculture Webinar Series | Ohio Women in Agriculture. Once there be sure to check out our upcoming webinar topics by month, r ...
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2025 Rabbit Royalty Applications Available Now!
https://hardin.osu.edu/news/2025-rabbit-royalty-applications-available-now
Applications are available now for the 2025 Hardin County Fair Rabbit Royalty Contest. Click the link to apply now! https://go.osu.edu/25rabbitroyalty Rules for application: All royalty contestants must be taking 4-H projects 228BR- Rabbit Breeding and/o ...
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Grain Handling Systems Open House
https://agcrops.osu.edu/events/grain-handling-systems-open-house
You are invited to the Molly Caren Ag Center Grain Facility for an open house to learn more about grain handling systems and safety. Technology and design will be on display July 24, 2025, from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM. OSU Extension and industry representative ...