Agriculture
Are you interested in curing your own bacon and food preservation? 4-H specialist Kyle Wake with the University of Missouri–Extension will teach a dry cured bacon class on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at the Howell County Extension Center, located at 1376 Bill Virdon Blvd. West Plains, Mo.
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Few flowers signal fall's arrival more than the cheerful chrysanthemum, or mum, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. Mums' long-lasting blooms put on a colorful display for weeks when other flowers have clocked out for the season.
Mums are among the oldest...
University of Missouri Extension offers an afternoon of programs on using native warm-season grasses for their forage value and seed production potential on Oct. 14 at the MU Southwest Research, Extension and Education Center at Mount Vernon. The event is free.
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With recent rains bringing long-awaited relief to drought-stricken pastures across southern Missouri, many producers may begin seeing rapid regrowth of Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense). While this may seem like a welcome forage opportunity, grazing Johnsongrass immediately after drought and...
University of Missouri Extension, in partnership with the Missouri Tree Farm Committee and the Forest and Woodlands Association of Missouri, invite the public to attend their annual Woodland Owners Conference, Oct. 3-4 in Mountain Grove.
MU Extension state forester Hank Stelzer says the...
Those billowy white panicles seen on flowering shrubs in late summer are not puffs of cotton candy, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. They are the flowering structures of Hydrangea paniculata, one of several hydrangea species that grow well in Missouri.
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Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) is one of the most useful flowering shrubs grown in southern states, said David Trinklein, state horticulture specialist for University of Missouri Extension. It is long-lived, withstands droughts and is relatively free of disease and insect problems. It also...
Due to the abnormally dry conditions, we have been getting several calls about high nitrates in Johnsongrass. We can test your Johnsongrass or Sorghum-Sudan at our extension offices for nitrate. Bring 3-5 handfuls of grass clipped at the soil surface from random areas of your field. The test only...
It might sound bizarre, but all the rain many parts of Missouri got this year has primed plants, trees and shrubs for the possibility of drought damage.
Roots are the lifeline of a plant, taking up water and nutrients from the soil and moving them into the leaves, where they can interact...
Agronomists in southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas report sightings of fall armyworms in grass and legume crops.
Fall armyworms do not overwinter in Missouri and migrate northward from Gulf Coast states. They damage forages by eating through the tender top leaf layer and leaving holes...