Q: Several brown, dead rings have formed in my lawn this summer. They seem to coincide with a type of mushroom. Are the mushrooms causing this? Is there any treatment short of applying a fungicide that is effective? Will the lawn recover on its own?
Oregon is among the world’s best regions for farming European truffles. With the development of modern seedling inoculation methods, 80-90% of French truffles are now grown in orchards of inoculated oak and hazelnut trees. While...
The Environmental Protection Agency recently banned the insecticide chlorpyrifos due to concern over the chemical’s neurological impacts on humans, so Oregon's grass seed industry needs immediate solutions for insect control.
Landowners needed help learning about reforestation and getting the resources they needed, and there was a critical need for tree seedlings to replace the trees lost to the fires, especially for private landowners who have less access to large-scale nurseries.
Alicia Christiansen, Kara Baylog, Glenn Ahrens |
Mar 2023 |
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