Periodical cicadas are different from the annual cicadas that appear every August. The periodical cicadas live for either 13 or 17 years. These cicadas are different in appearance to the annual cicadas. They are smaller and have more of an orange appearance...

The 2024 MU Cotton Meeting will be held February 6, 2024, at the MU Fisher Delta Research Center in Portageville, MO. Registration: 8:00 a.m. Program: 8:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. CEU’s will be applied for. At 8:00 a.m. there will be registration, refreshments, and welcome; at 8:30 am, Cotton Weed Control with Anthony Ohmes, Field Specialist in Agronomy, MU Extension; 9:10 am, Cotton Fertility with Dr. ...

Private pesticide applicator training is available in two formats moving forward into 2023. Applicators can participate in virtual online (Zoom) training and in-person (Face-to-Face) training.  The MU Pesticide Applicator website has the list of available trainings by clicking the “See All Remote and In-Person Events”- https://extension.missouri.edu/programs/pesticide-applicator-training/pat-remote.  If you look at the available trainings on the website, be sure that you know what training format you are registering, Zoom or Face-to-Face. ...

Of all antibiotics sold in the United States, approximately 80% are sold for use in animal agriculture; about 70% of these are “medically important” (i.e., from classes important to human medicine).2 Antibiotics are administered to animals in feed to marginally improve growth rates and to prevent infections, a practice projected to increase dramatically worldwide over the next 15 years. ...

Our University of Missouri Extension and Engagement Week was held in Columbia, October 24-26. The value of this conference is the time that we get to visit with our specialists throughout the state. The theme of this year’s meeting was youth. On Wednesday, we spent the day on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. There were presentations, visits with Deans, and tours of after-school sites to see these programs in action...

Although sometimes considered a vegetable, mushrooms are a type of fungus. In a way, mushrooms are like the fruit of a plant. Instead of producing seeds, the mushroom fungus releases millions of microscopic spores that form under the mushroom’s cap. They can grow above ground, on top of the soil, or on the surface of a food source...

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