Kansas farm program cuts atrazine use model for nation
Kansas launches a surface water protection plan in the Delaware River Basin to reduce atrazine herbicide in runoff. Officials say the program, the first of its kind, aims to limit application to about 2.25 pounds per acre annually and stagger uses to avoid heavy rain periods, with certain buffer rules near streams.
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Honeysuckle Aphids Control Tips and Potatoes Planting Advice
Honeysuckle aphids threaten many honeysuckle shrubs. Prune and destroy overwintering witches brooms in late winter, then spray with a label insecticide such as acephate early in the season, with follow ups two and four weeks later. May heat increases sprays. potatoes can still be planted, cutting tubers into pieces with eyes and letting cut surfaces heal to form suberin. Garden features from Douglas County Extension. hotline hours listed.
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