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Calving Records 101
Complete and well-maintained calving records provide valuable information that can be used to improve and evaluate operations. Learn some expert tips for getting your records off to a great start this calving season.
What Are These Small White Insects in My Soybean Field?
During the last two weeks we have received reports of increasing numbers of small white insects present on soybean. The insects in question are whiteflies.
A Glimpse Into Family History Writing
Learn some writing tips for researching family history and genealogy and organizing your findings into compelling stories.
4-H Aerospace & Rocketry Project
Want to design, build, and launch your own rocket? Always been interested in airplanes and flight? Blast off to the aerospace and rocketry project area!
Woody Weeds: Common Buckthorn
When considering weed control in tree plantings, the focus is generally placed on the control of herbaceous vegetation (grasses and forbs), particularly during the establishment phase. This focus is appropriate since control of herbaceous weeds is generally critical to establish a successful planting. As these plantings mature, providing perching sites for birds, another weed problem develops – the establishment of competing woody vegetation. These woody weeds are often left unchecked for many years because they look “natural” in a windbreak or other area of trees.
4-H Veterinary Science Project
The veterinary science 4-H project area connects a love for animals with an interest in science. Explore the many careers in animal and veterinary science, study the health and anatomy of animals, understand animal health in relation to humans, and learn through experience how to care for an animal.
4-H Consumer Education Project
The consumer education program seeks to grant youth the knowledge and skills to become more financially responsible consumers as youth are challenged to compare products, prices, and services that are a part of our everyday lives.
Spent Coffee Grounds: Fertilizer or Not?
Should you put used coffee grounds in your compost pile? How about on your garden, or in your raised bed?
HG Type Testing: A Management Strategy for Soybean Cyst Nematode Control
Have you noticed lower soybean yielding areas in your field? Soybean cyst nematode may be to blame. Fall, and especially after soybean harvest, is the best time to sample soil and have it tested for soybean cyst nematode.
Green Cloverworms Causing Defoliation in Soybean
Populations of green cloverworm, a caterpillar pest of soybean, have been increasing over the last couple of weeks in South Dakota. Although green cloverworm caterpillars feed on soybean leaves, defoliation rarely results in economic loss. However, reports of increasing populations of green cloverworm and increasing amounts of defoliation suggests that scouting for this insect pest is warranted.