Galls on oak trees unsightly but harmless
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Linda Geist
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Michele R. Warmund, 573-882-9632
COLUMBIA, Mo.– Those unsightly round, brown growths seen on oaks this time of year won’t harm the tree, says a University of Missouri Extension...
Fire ants mobilize in the aftermath of disaster
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Linda Geist
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Richard M. Houseman, 573-882-7181
COLUMBIA, Mo.– When natural disaster hits, fire ants may follow, says a University of Missouri Extension entomologist.
Ice storms in 2009 destroyed...
Crop insurance protected revenue for covered farmers during drought
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Linda Geist
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story sources: Raymond E. Massey, 573-884-7788; Ron Plain, 573-882-0134
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Farmers covered by federal crop insurance may not only have had their losses covered and avoided financial...
Clayton to be keynote speaker at Missouri Livestock Symposium, Dec. 7-8
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Linda Geist
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-9185
E-Mail: [email protected]
KIRKSVILLE, Mo. – Tony Clayton of Clayton Agri-Marketing will be the keynote speaker at the free two-day Missouri Livestock Symposium, Dec. 7-8 at Kirksville Middle School.
Clayton, of Jefferson...
Keep venison safe from field to table
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Curt Wohleber
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-5409
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story sources: Craig Payne, 573-882-8236; Robert A. Pierce II, 573-882-4337; Tammy Roberts, 660-679-4167
COLUMBIA, Mo.–Despite outbreaks of hemorrhagic disease in deer across Missouri and...
Chronic wasting disease in Missouri
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Curt Wohleber
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-5409
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal degenerative brain disease of deer, moose and elk, has been found in a small number of deer in north central Missouri.
Since 2010, CWD has been diagnosed in 11...
Hunters and landowners can improve deer populations through Quality Deer Management
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Curt Wohleber
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-5409
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Robert A. Pierce II, 573-882-4337
COLUMBIA, Mo.–During this year’s deer season, landowners and hunters can work together to improve the quality of the deer herd in their...
Help children enjoy Halloween without candy overload
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Debbie Johnson
Senior Writer
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-9183
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Story source: Tammy Roberts, 660-679-4167
BUTLER, Mo. – The night of dress-up, jinks and japes will soon be here. Children will roam the neighborhood bartering tricks in exchange for treats.
Make sure your...
Be ready when monstrous weather strikes Missouri
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Curt Wohleber
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-5409
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Sherry Nelson, 573-769-2177
PALMYRA, Mo. – When the news got out that a monster storm was bearing down on the East Coast, people in the hurricane’s path flocked to stores to...
Research and demonstration plots balance runoff and erosion reduction
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Jason Vance
Senior Information Specialist
University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Phone: 573-882-9731
E-Mail: [email protected]
Story source: Robert Lerch, 573-882-9489
COLUMBIA, Mo.–Collaboration between University of Missouri Extension and the USDA Agricultural Research Service has shown that using a rotary harrow to...
