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Creator:: Oregon State University. Extension Service, Kean, Deborah, Myers, Jim, and Stang, Jack
Abstract:: Home gardens produce the best yields when planted with vegetable varieties adapted to local growing conditions. These variety trials may assist market growers and home gardeners in choosing adapted varieties, based on qualities that are important to them (such as appearance, earliness, flavor, yield, and disease resistance).
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Bowers, S. (Steven Clay) and Oregon State University. Extension Service
Abstract:: Woodland owners routinely want to measure property acreage, boundaries, ground slope, various characteristics of standing timber, and individual log volumes. Different tools are required for each of these tasks.
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Selker, John S. and Oregon State University. Extension Service
Abstract:: The region’s high winter rainfall provides aquifers that are often within 50 feet of the land surface. In many parts of the United States and in other countries where groundwater is this close to the surface, pesticide contamination has been observed. Thus, with our high population, significant applications of pesticides,...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Oregon State University. Extension Service and Selker, John S.
Abstract:: We first need to note that the soil nitrogen that makes plants green is primarily in the form of nitrate, and this nitrogen is accessible to plants specifically because it stays dissolved in the soil water. In a typical corn field, where the bulk of the roots are in the...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Oregon State University. Extension Service, Selker, John, and Rupp, David Earl
Abstract:: Directly below commercial mint fields, percolation in excess of 10 ppm of nitrogen as nitrate (NO3 --N), the EPA drinking water standard, occurs for much of the year (Figure 1, page 2). Concentrations rise rapidly after irrigation starts in June, indicating that this nitrogen is being pushed through by irrigation...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

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