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Lawn & Garden

Watering Kentucky Bluegrass
When watering your Kentucky Bluegrass lawn, you'll want to make every drop of water count so you'll minimize water usage and still maintain a beautiful and healthy lawn.
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Kentucky Bluegrass
Kentucky Bluegrass is an excellent choice for a lawn. It's disease resistant adaptable, and has excellent texture, color and density.[more]

Mulching
Mulching is the most important post planting practice that you can do to improve the health and vitality of your landscape plant.[more]

Lawn and Weed Management
Regardless of the type of weed, there are several factors that influence the effectiveness of post emergence herbicide applications.[more]

Tree and Shrub Planting and Care
Good planting practices will result in high survival and better tree growth. [more]

Crabgrass Control
Act early to control crabgrass! Find out what should do in early spring to eliminate this common problem in lawns. [more]

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Your Lawn‘s Irrigation System
As we prepare our lawns for the hot summer months ahead, spring is an important time to evaluate your lawn‘s irrigation system. Annual maintenance is important because irrigation systems, like any other equipment, does eventually wear out and need to be replaced. [more]

Cattle & Other Livestock

Preventing Grass Tetany
Spring has arrived. So has green grass, which indicates it time for magnesium to prevent grass tetany in your cattle. [more]

Establishing a Good Cow-Calf Herd Health Program
Establishing a good cow-calf herd health program is a necessary step if profit is to be realized. [more]

USDAs Feeder Cattle Grade for Sorting Feeder Cattle
The USDA has developed a Feeder Cattle Grade to sort feeder cattle into similar groups that will facilitate their selling and buying. [more]

Sorting Cattle
Last week we talked about sorting cattle by frame size to take advantage of your best marketing and feeding alternatives. Listed is a reference for these frame sizes. [more]

Horses & Equine

Horse Ownership
Pleasure horses for personal and recreational use represent the largest category of horse ownership in the United States, with about 2 million people owning such horses. [more]

Horse Boarding and Pasturing
Horses must be cared for daily. Find out what you need to do to care for your horses. [more]

Controlling Flies and Other Horse Pests
Flies are the most common pest that bother horses. Pesticides are the best way to give your horse a break. [more]

Exercise Area for Horses
Horses need a sizeable exercise area and shelter. To keep your horses healthy, make sure you provide both. [more]

Feeding Your Horses
A mature pleasure horse should be feed 1.5 to 2 pounds of good quality grass per 100 pounds of body weight. [more]

Equine Nutrition
When cooler weather is upon us, we should all be thinking of our horse's nutrition. [more]

Equine Care
Stalled horses require much greater care, attention and labor. [more]

Equine Routine Care
What Routine care should be given to your horse? [more]

Equine Feeding Tips
Some feeding tips for your horse. [more]

Pest Control

Controlling Mice
Fall is the season of the year that tends to bring these pests indoors, and is the time of the year to use techniques to control the problem and keep the mouse population in check.[more]

Rodent Control
Rodent control this time of year can be a very "trying experience." Bait stations used in rodent control programs may increase both the effectiveness and safety of rodent baits (romanticizes).[more]

Seasonal

A Woman's Tool Box
Here is a holiday suggestion: create a "women's tool box" so she has all the tools necessary to fix and repair things around the house the rest of us never seem to get to. [more]

Alternative Heating Sources
Did you know that the U.S. now consumes 76 quadrillion Btu of energy per year. This is enough energy to light one home for 20 billion years! [more]

Take Steps to Keep Real Christmas Trees Safe
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln forester says, "Each year Nebraskans buy 20,000 to 25,000 real Christmas trees" and individuals who bring real Christmas trees into their home should take steps to keep themselves, their family and their property safe." [more]

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