Agriculture

Controlling the winter annuals in your yard

How many of you can remember the weeds that decided to pop up in your yard this spring…

Agriculture

What’s drilling all of those holes in your yard trees?

It could be a native woodpecker, the yellow-bellied sapsucker. Sapsucker damage is most often seen on the main…

Agriculture

Getting the most out of your Halloween pumpkins

One of the surest signs that fall is upon us is the appearance of pumpkins for sale along…

Agriculture

All about the love bug

Fall is a great time of year. The sky is blue, the temperatures are cooler, and love bugs…

Agriculture

Plant selection and fertilization for fall food plots

What are you trying to attract? What equipment do you have? Is the food plot accessible for your…

Agriculture

The best tips to getting your food plots ready this fall

Hopefully you have already gotten started on your food plots, but for those of you who are running…

Agriculture

Sooty mold in the landscape

I know it sounds exciting, but a lot of people get worked up about it. Usually late in…

Agriculture

The microscopic pest: How to handle plants with nematodes

Much of my time is spent trying to figure out what is wrong with certain agronomic crops, vegetables…

Agriculture

How to properly perform a peanut maturity test

A peanut maturity test can only be as accurate as the sample taken from the field.

Agriculture

Looking out for the soybean rust

Asian Soybean Rust has not been confirmed on soybeans this year in Decatur County. However, soybean rust has…