State DNR warns of wildfire risk In light of current drought conditions across the region, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service asks residents to use caution when enjoying Maryland's outdoors in the days ahead to avoid the risk of wildfire. State DNR warns of wildfire risk In light of current drought conditions across the region, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service asks residents to use caution when enjoying Maryland's outdoors in the days...

A pre-feasibility study made by a Chinese state-owned company on how to produce Urea fertilizer locally from coal deposits revealed a price tag of seven billion Birr. He was disappointed the offer did not meet the 300 million dollars to produce 300,000tn of Urea per annum he was informed the local fertilizer could sell for last year. It was the Chinese government who hinted at that time that it could be possible to produce the Urea locally with a lower cost. However, even in the...

The first number in the fertilizer analysis indicates nitrogen percentage and the last number in an analysis indicates potassium percentage. Spraying a fungicide can slow disease spread but fungicides alone may not control diseases. Merely spraying the lawn with a fungicide will not control some lawn diseases. Proper preventative or curative turf medicine should help your lawn through this critical time. Fertilizers should generally have at least two-thirds as much potassium as nitrogen....

At a field day late last week at a DuPont research facility near Rochelle, Illinois, DuPont and Pioneer personnel showed several dozen corn and soybean test plots where Optimum GAT plants were growing next to Roundup Ready plots and control plots with no herbicides. It will also be tolerant to a broad range of ALS herbicides, meaning they can be mixed with the glyphosate product and applied at the same time. At a field day late last week at a DuPont research facility near Rochelle,...

The best they can do is spread out their plantings over the course of several weeks in April and May and hope that if one crop is lost, storm clouds will come and another crop will manage better. Throughout Franklin County, crops of soybeans, alfalfa and grass hays have withered away this summer, lacking adequate rainfall to sustain their growth and provide more than one harvest for farmers. Rows of corn that should be a vivid green and soaring eight to 12 feet in the air are instead...