Published June 1984. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published July 1984. A more recent revision exists. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Extensive areas of eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Idaho are well suited to dryland production of small grains and legumes. Commonly, over this area, winter wheat is planted in rotation with either annual legumes or summer fallow.
Published October 1982. A newer revision exists. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published March 1992. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam. or Lolium perenne L. ssp. multiflorum (Lam.) Husnot, also called Italian rye grass) is a cool season annual bunchgrass native to southern Europe. It is closely related to perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). Both are widely distributed throughout the world, including North and South America,...
Most producers would agree that all buildings that house livestock and poultry need ventilation. The real discussion begins when you try to determine how much ventilation you must provide.
Blackgrass (Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.), also known as slender foxtail, ranks, with wild oats and annual ryegrass, among the most important grass weeds in winter cereal production in Europe. It infests other winter crops there as well, including grass seed, rapeseed, and forage legumes.
Blue mustard (Chorispora tenella) is a native of Russia or
southwest Asia. It first was documented in this country in
Lewiston, Idaho in 1929, and has spread throughout the
western plains states, the western portion of the United States,
and southern Canada.
In nature, chicks hatch after 2 to 4 weeks of incubation by the parents, most often the hen. The hatched chicks provide the stimulus to the hen to change her work from incubating eggs to brooding young. This form of brooding chicks is the easiest if only a few chicks...
Bulbous bluegrass is another example of an introduced
European plant that escaped to become weedy. The first reports
of its growth in the United States were experimental
plantings at Arlington, Virginia, in 1907, and one at Pullman,
Washington, at about the same time. It was produced commercially
in southern Oregon...
Published January 1988. A more recent revision exists. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Catchweed bedstraw (Galium aparine L.), also called bedstraw or cleavers, is a native annual with weak, climbing, or twining stems, up to 6 feet long (figure 1). Whorls of six to eight narrow single-nerved leaves are attached to square stems (figure 2). Both stems and leaves have short backward-turning bristles...
Information within this publication may be outdated. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published September 1993. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog