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OSU Extension News Highlights

| Clifton Martin

Decent Harvest Weather Likely to Continue into October | Agronomic Crops Network 

Farm Office Live Scheduled for October 7, 2020 | Agronomic Crops Network 

Precautions for Feeding Frosted and Drought-Stressed Forages | Agronomic Crops Network 

You can’t starve profit into a cow . . . or a hay field! | Ohio BEEF Cattle Letter 

Fall Forage Management Tips | Ohio BEEF Cattle Letter 

It pays to maintain cover! | Ohio BEEF Cattle Letter 

Record Levels of Prime Grading | Ohio BEEF Cattle Letter  

Harvesting and Grazing Forages Following a Frost | OSU Sheep Team  

Creating Alternative Forage Plans | OSU Sheep Team 

The Ag Law Harvest | Farm Office

Late Season Forage Harvest Management

| Clifton Martin

The best time to take a last harvest of alfalfa and other legumes is sometime in early September in Ohio, for the least risk to the long-term health of the stand. These forages need a fall period of rest to replenish carbohydrate and protein reserves in the taproots that are used for winter survival and regrowth next spring.

Many forage producers around the state have been cutting this past week and are continuing into this week. It will be ideal if this is indeed the last harvest of the season. But some growers might try to squeeze out another late cutting, and others have fields that are not quite ready for harvest right now. Like most farming decisions, there are trade-offs and risk factors to consider when making a fall harvest of forage legumes after the first week of September. This article reviews best management practices and risk factors affecting fall cutting management.

The full content of this article is available at: https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2020-28/late-season-forage-harvest-management

Ear Disorders Appearing in Corn Fields

| Clifton Martin

By Peter Thomison, C.O.R.N Newsletter

In recent weeks, I have received several reports of abnormal ear development in corn fields which are near or at harvest maturity. Affected plants in these fields exhibit varying degrees of ear development with little or no kernel formation. Some ear shoots carry a barely visible rudimentary ear or only the short remnant of an ear (Figs. 1 and 2).

Other symptoms include “dumbbell-shaped ears” (characterized by kernel formation at the base and tip of the ear but absent from the middle of the ear), “bouquet ears” (formed by small ears trying to develop from the same shank as the main ear), and shorter than normal husks…Read more