If Roundup Was Banned...
If Roundup was banned…, People would need to start reading seed tags. Stop and think about this for a minute. We have become a lazy society. We plant weeds and we plant to encourage weed growth. We then decide to kill weeds by using Roundup. We stopped using integrated weed management in favor of killing undesirable weeds. With anything in life, there comes resistance. Many weeds are now resistant to roundup. This is the same thing that happens with many drugs. If you take pe
Mother Nature's Challenge
Finally, she had enough. The two wildlife seed experts went back and forth on social media as to who had the better bag of seed. All was not well in Mother Earth’s world. She knew it was time to step in. She requested both experts to report to her one early April morning in Central Ohio. As the men stood before her, she began to speak. “You both are here as “experts.” I think it’s time we give you men something to prove yourself not to me but to the world. I challenge you bot
The Perfect Forage
In my career I have always been involved in research and development. I am always looking for something to compliment my current programs. About 5 years ago I came across one appealing forage in that it would compliment my wildlife program, cover crop program and managed intensive grazing program. I decided to put it to the ultimate test, the GRO Farm. On the GRO farm there is extreme browse/grazing pressure. There is clay ground, peat ground, and loam ground. I decided to pl
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