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Garden tips for July General Landscape the larger the spider mite cool-season grasses can be a at 3 inches during hot, dry (Bearded Iris) after flowering garden, and landscape. Water plants deeply and populations! problem. summer months. Gradually until August. Check pesticide labels early in the morning. Most Expect some leaf fall, a Meet water requirements raise mowing height of for “stop” spraying plants need approximately normal reaction to drought. of turfgrasses. bermudagrass lawns from 1¥% Tree and Shrub recommendations prior to 1 to 2% inches of water per. Water young plantings well. Fertilization of warm- to 2 inches. Control bermudagrass harvest. week. season grasses can continue Sharpen or replace mower around trees and shrubs Harvest fruit from the Providing birdbaths, Vegetable Garden if water is present for growth. blades as needed. Shredded with products containing orchard early in the morning shelter and food will help Make fall vegetable garden Vegetative establishment of leaf blades are an invitation sethoxydim, fusillade or and refrigerate as soon as turn your landscape intoa _ plantings in late July. Fact warm-season grasses should to disease and allow more glyphosate herbicides. Follow possible. backyard wildlife habitat. Sheet HLA-6009 gives be completed by the end of stress on the grass. directions closely to avoid For more information Insect identification is planting recommendations. July to ensure the least risk harming desirable plants. contact Greg Hartman important so you don’t get rid of winter kill. Flowers Fruits Beckham/Washita County ofthe “Good Guys.” Lawn Mowing heights for cool- Divide and replant Continue insect combat Extension at 580-928-2139 or ‘The hotter and drier it gets, Brown patch disease of season turfgrasses should be crowded Hybrid iris and control in the orchard, 580-832-3356. OKLAHOMA HAY MAREET REPORT USDA research is driving Central Oklahoma: No trend established. Few loads Supreme quality new crop 140.00-150.00. Few loads Premium quality new crop 120.00-130.00. technological innovation Eastern Oklahoma: No sales confirmed. USDA scientists and solutions to the people of Atest strip for major greenhouse gas (GHG) researchers reported 320 new America,” Secretary Perdue foodborne pathogens that accounting capabilities. (p. Western Oklahoma: Premium quality new crop 120.00- inventions in 2018 said. “Today, USDA is still reduces testing time from 24- 394) 430,00, Several loads Good quality old crop 110.00. (Salinas, California, helping to drive technological 72 hours to about 30 minutes, A soy-based resin that June 28, 2019) - The U.S. innovation — both on the allowing food to be tested can replace traditional anti- Department of Agriculture farm and off. Studies show more often at less expense. fouling boat paint without Grass Hay that every dollar invested (p. 384) Central Oklahoma: Good Bermuda 4 X 5 bales 30.00-45.00 (USDA) today released its containing copper that can annual Technology Transfer in agricultural research A vaccine against accumulate in underwater per bale, 5 X6 bales 50.00-60.00. Report, which highlights returns $20 to our economy. Streptococcus suis that environments. (p. 383) innovations from scientists Innovations produced by may markedly improve the Western Oklahoma: Good quality new crop wheat hay 5 X and researchers that are USDA scientists and through health and welfare of pigs A safe, new insecticide for 6 bales 50,00/bale, Few loads new crop wheat hay 80,00 per solving problems for farmers, public-private partnerships while reducing the use of use on the fruit fly - methyl ton. Good Bermuda horse quality 65.00-70,00 per bale in SX ranchers, foresters, and add value to American antibiotics. (p. 123) benzoate - which was found 6 bales, Good Bermuda cow hay 5 X 6 bales 45.00-60.00 per producers; and creating agriculture and the U. Using gene editing as a tool to be S to 20 times more toxic bale, 4X 5 bales mixed grass 40..00-45.00 per bale. Several opportunities for American economy, create jobs, and to engineer an African swine to fruit fly larvae. (p. 147) loads sorghum sudangrass 5 businesses to thrive. help American producers fever vaccine. (p. 123) Development of the first X 6 bales 37.50 per bale. Yesterday, Secretary Perdue compete in the global The discovery of a hormone U.S. hard-white waxy high- discussed the release of the marketplace.” ~ asprosin - that controls yielding winter wheat, which Eastern Oklahoma: Mixed grass in 4 X 5 bales 20.00-30.00 ‘Technology Transfer Report Innovation highlights the desire to eat, making can be used to develop novel per bale. Mixed grass hay in 5 X 6 bales 30.00-50.00. Good at the Forbes AgTech Summit mentioned in the report it a potential tool for the whole grain products and is bluestem hay delivered 85.00-105.00 per ton. Good Bermuda held in Salinas, CA during include (along with prevention and treatment of amore efficient substrate for in 5X6 bales 50.00-65.00 per bale.Good Bermuda4 X 5 a fireside chat with Mike corresponding page numbers obesity and type 2 diabetes, ethanol production. (p. 141) bales 25.00-45.00 per bale, mostly 25.00-35.00. Prices are Federle, the CEO of Forbes. in the report for each): (p. 110) USDA issues the report dollars per ton and FOB unless otherwise noted. USDA's Technology Anew bio-based insect Aset of time-series maps each year on technology- ‘Transfer Report revealed 320 repellent that uses fatty that can help forest resource transfer activities for new inventions from USDA acids derived from coconut managers plan strategically the USDA, Agricultural laboratories in fiscal year oil to ward off blood-sucking for how changing climate Marketing Service (AMS), 2018, along with 471 licenses, insects that cost the cattle might affect the geographic Animal and Plant Health 120 patent applications and industry more than $2.4 distribution of wildfires in the Half Price 67 actual patents. Discoveries billion annually. (p. 117) Pacific Northwest. (p. 288) Inspection Service (APHIS), Agricultural Research include a repellent made Energy-saving new A technique that detects Service (ARS), Economic Walk-In Bathtubs from coconut oil to ward off blood-sucking insects that technology using sequential infrared heat and hot air the dreaded Zika virus in mosquitoes by simply shining Research Service (ERS), Foreign Agricultural 580-354-7006 cost the cattle industry more than $2.4 billion annually, to simultaneously dry and decontaminate wet whole special beam of light on a whole mosquito for less than Service (FAS), Food Safety technology that keeps almond almonds, a crop worth $5.33 three seconds- an approach and Inspection Service crops from being lost to billion a year in California. that is 18 times faster and (FSIS), Forest Service heavy rains, and a treatment (p. 111) 110 times cheaper than the (FS), National Agricultural for peanut allergies. Asystem for removing current alternative. 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