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  Smart bulbs and plants for the summer garden

  Published on May 22, 2020
  Diversify your garden with unique bulbs and summer blooming plants.

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  Is your food or farming business as resilient as a prairie?

  Published on May 22, 2020
  Does your business have the assets it needs to survive the COVID-19 pandemic?

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  Fire blight risk very high in Michigan: Consider treatment options

  Published on May 22, 2020
  The risk for blossom blight infection is extreme for May 23-27, 2020. Kasumin is best for control in Fruit Ridge orchards where we have diagnosed streptomycin resistance in the fire blight pathogen. Streptomycin and Kasumin are best in other areas.

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  Charles Parker Halligan’s impact on the MSU Landscape Architecture program

  Published on May 22, 2020
  The individuals who started Landscape Architecture at MSU in 1898 are all but forgotten, but Professor Charles Halligan should be remembered for his arrival and his growth of the program during its’ early stages at MSU.

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  Garlic mustard: Michigan’s worst woodland weed

  Published on May 22, 2020
  This invasive weed is rapidly taking over the forest floor, replacing important habitat for plants and animals alike.

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  Entomology’s Bugged on remote working and flourishing

  Published on May 22, 2020
  Constraints for containing the novel coronavirus are keeping most of us off campus, but work, challenges and success continue as you’ll see in this issue of Bugged.

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  Programas federales para productores frente al coronavirus / Federal programs for farmers amidst novel coronavirus

  Published on May 22, 2020
  Educadores de Extensión en MSU crearon videos para guiar a los productores Latinos a elegir programas. / MSU Extension Educators have created videos to guide Latinx farmers to choose support programs.

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  AFRE Faculty Participate in African Development Bank Session on Agricultural Policy Responses to COVID-19

  Published on May 22, 2020
  The ADBG sponsored event was entitled "Building Resilience in Food Systems and Agricultural Value Chains: Agricultural Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Africa”.

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  COVID-19 videos in Spanish for dairy employees

  Published on May 22, 2020
  To minimize the chance of spread of COVID-19 in dairy workers, provide access to information in their native language.

• How much to expect when buying freezer beef: Part Two

  Published on May 21, 2020
  How many steak and roasts is in one freezer beef? How much ground beef should I expect?