2023 Ag Day Essay Contest Announced
In preparation for National Ag Day 2023 on March 21, the Agriculture Council of America (ACA) is hosting an essay contest. The theme for this year is Growing a Climate for…
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Purdue Offering New Fully Online Master of Science in International Agribusiness
Purdue University is offering a new fully online Professional Master of Science in International Agribusiness aimed at agribusiness professionals worldwide. Applications are being taken now, and the program launches in January 2023. The…
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WSU 2022 Cultivar Demonstration Results
The 2022 Washington State University (WSU) Columbia Basin onion cultivar demonstration included 53 cultivars and lines from 7 different seed companies. It was planted in late-March in a center pivot…
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Texas Onion Growers Renew Marketing Order
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that producers of south Texas onions voted to continue their marketing order program. In a referendum held between Sep. 1 and Oct. 3,…
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Cause for Concern?
Story and photos by Denise Keller, Editor Extreme weather is creating more challenges in the field. Waning product efficacy is making disease management more difficult. With all this and other…
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Maximize and Minimize; Two Principles for Managing Soil Health
By Andrew McGuire Soil health management can be distilled to two principles: Maximize photosynthesisMinimize tillage These are principles; they do not tell you what practices you should use, but rather…
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Do Thrips Facilitate Bulb Rot Disease?
By Pin-Chu Lai and Brian Nault, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Cornell AgriTech Do your onions suffer from onion thrips infestations and bacterial bulb rot? If you grow dry bulb…
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Battle Against Blight: Stemphylium Leaf Blight in Ontario
By Michael Kooy, Emily McFaul, Kevin Vander Kooi and Mary Ruth McDonald, University of Guelph With dwindling efficacy of tools to manage Stemphylium leaf blight in onion, the search is…
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What Do Recent Discoveries Mean for Soil Management?
What do recent discoveries regarding soil biology and soil organic matter mean for soil management? Something between “this changes everything” and “nothing new.” Science is slow. It will take some…
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Onion Insect Quiz: November 2022
This material is provided courtesy of Lidia Komondy, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Entomology, Cornell University. Click or tap here to see the answers.
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