High tunnels can offer advantages for fruit crop growers. Learn about growing seasons, marketing periods, protection, and more.
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The Alabama Crops Report Podcast is where research meets the row. When time is tight and every minute matters, the Alabama Cooperative Exten...
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Gastrointestinal parasites continue to be a major challenge for small ruminant producers in the Southeastern United States. Sheep and goats ...
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This information highlights the results of a two-year small plot study evaluating warm-season annual forage mixtures for yield, nutritive qu...
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Thrips are the most important insect pest of seedling cotton in Alabama. Learn about how to identify thrips and their injury and how...
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Alabama Extension’s research-based integrated pest management (IPM) field crop trials and programs help producers across the state...
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Raising beef calves for a successful freezer beef program requires specific management practices. Learn about nutritional mana...
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The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill established industrial hemp as an industrial commodity—no longer a controlled substance—in the sta...
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Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) disease management costs in apple are estimated at approximately $100 million a year in the U.S. Newly r...
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Landscapers and nursery producers consider wood-boring insects (borers) to be among the most difficult to control. Many of the most ...
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Members of the contract poultry growing community understand the anxiety that spring and summer bring to the farm. Both contract gro...
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The cattle-feeding industry has been built largely on the use of by-products. Most beef producers take into account the public...
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