Resources

  • Smart Gardening: Growing Backyard Fruit Trees

    Published on April 30, 2024
    Smart Gardening tip sheet on growing backyard tree fruit

  • Sweet Cherry Pest Guide

    Published on April 30, 2024
    This table serves as a season-long guide for when various pest life stages are expected and the best time to target management strategies based on an average year.

  • Equipping and Operating Sprayers to Control Insects and Diseases in Soybeans

    Published on April 26, 2024
    Controlling insects and diseases in soybeans can be challenging. This article will help you maximize insect and disease control in soybeans by equipping and operating your sprayer properly.

  • MSU Grain Marketing Evaluation Tool

    Published on April 22, 2024
    Designed for both first time and seasoned marketers, the MSU Grain Marketing Evaluation Tool uses current information to help analyze market conditions.

  • Cover Crop Termination

    Published on April 22, 2024
    Developing a termination strategy for cover crops is an essential part of the planning process to ensure there is no interference with the planting or management of the subsequent cash crop.

  • Keeping You and Your Flock Healthy – Information on Avian Influenza  

    Published on April 18, 2024
    Protecting your flock from the entry and spread of diseases is important. Biosecurity practices are ways that you can help limit the spread of disease and reduce the chance of a disease outbreak in your flock.

  • Biosecurity for dairy and beef cattle farms

    Published on April 12, 2024
    Preventive practices and early identification of sick cattle are essential to minimizing the spread of disease amongst individual animals and across herds.

  • Beekeeping Assistive Technology

    Published on April 9, 2024
    A guide with examples of assistive technologies that enable beekeepers with medical impairments to manage hives and sell honey.

  • Greenhouse Insect Pest Management 2024

    Published on April 3, 2024
    Research-based information is presented on how to manage greenhouse insects and other pests including thrips, aphids, whiteflies, mites, fungus gnats, and mealybugs.

  • The Outlook for Michigan Agriculture 2024

    Published on March 29, 2024
    This analysis outlines the outlook for agriculture with a particular emphasis on commodities of particular importance to Michigan in 2024.