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Herbicide and Mulch Combo Superior Method of Weed Control
Pine nuggets and hardwood bark were the tested mulches, and the liquid chemicals used in the study ... three were pre-treated mulches, eight were herbicides applied under hardwood bark, and eight were ... herbicides applied over pine nuggets. At 350 days, four treatments were still providing commercially ...
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Herbicide-Treated Mulches Effective Method of Weed Control
organic mulches (pine nuggets, cypress, Douglas fir, hardwood bark, rice hulls, cocoa bean shells, and ... required in the nursery and landscape industries. Based on the results, rice hulls and hardwood bark ... considered commercially acceptable," said Mathers. Other pre-treated mulches, like pine nuggets, also ...
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Ohio State Forestry Students to Hold Christmas Tree Sale Nov. 29-Dec. 2
The trees are fresh cut Ohio-grown Fraser firs, Scotch pines, white pines and blue spruces in heights ...
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How to Keep Your Forest Healthy: July 23 Workshop on Stopping Invasive Insects
Pennsylvania. It attacks, among others, apple, cherry and pine trees. Leading the workshop will be forestry ... Sciences at The Ohio State University. Non-native insects like the Asian longhorned beetle and hemlock ... viburnum leaf beetle, the insect-carried thousand cankers disease of walnuts, and what you should do if you ...
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Ohio Invasive Species Profile: Asian Longhorned Beetle
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-invasive-species-profile-asian-longhorned-beetle
Asian longhorned beetle, one of Ohio’s newest invasive species: What it is: Big, shiny-black beetle with ... Where it’s from: Japan, Korea, southern China. What it does: Adult females lay their eggs in the bark of ... (2:18): Dan Kenny discusses the Asian longhorned beetle in a video news release by the Ohio Department of ...
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Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Names New Assistant Director, Agriculture and Natural Resources
https://cfaes.osu.edu/node/1515
Project and the Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Project for the Mississippi Forestry Commission. Londo has ... pine silviculture and non-industrial private forest landowner issues. Londo has authored 190 journal ... grants totaling $5.4 million to work on 39 projects, including the Western Gulf Longleaf Pine Restoration ...
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CFAES Forestry Students to Sell Christmas Trees Dec. 5-8
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/cfaes-forestry-students-sell-christmas-trees-dec-5-8
sale will be 6- to 9-foot Ohio-grown Fraser firs, blue spruces, and Scotch and white pines priced at ...
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Christmas Trees Offer Many Environmental Benefits — And You Can Put a Dollar Sign Next to Them
up." A blue spruce with a 2-inch-diameter trunk growing on a Christmas tree farm in, say, Doylestown in ... runoff and reduction of atmospheric carbon by 20 pounds. Meanwhile, a Scotch pine at that same location ... average). Dollar value of benefits provided by a 2-inch-diameter blue spruce Christmas tree, planted in ...
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CROP ALERT AND YARD ALERT! IT’S ARMYWORM by Trevor Corboy
https://greene.osu.edu/news/crop-alert-and-yard-alert-it%E2%80%99s-armyworm-trevor-corboy
infestations from Dr. Dave Shetlar, Ohio State University Professor Emeritus of Entomology: “For commercial ...
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Beware of falling ash trees
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/beware-falling-ash-trees
the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle originally from Asia, has since killed off swaths of trees ... Ohio was an ash. The ash borer beetle lays its eggs on an ash tree, and when the eggs hatch, the larvae ... tunnel inward to feed on a ring of the tree, just beneath the bark. As the larvae grow, they etch deeper ...