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OSU Extension Agents’ Handbook of Insect, Plant Disease, and Weed Control

OSU Extension Agents’ Handbook of Insect, Plant Disease, and Weed Control. EAH is Published Annually. A homeowner has white grubs in her lawn.

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OSU Extension Agents’ Handbook of Insect, Plant Disease, and Weed Control

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  1. OSU Extension Agents’ Handbookof Insect, Plant Disease, and Weed Control

  2. EAH is Published Annually

  3. A homeowner has white grubs in her lawn. • What insecticide would you suggest the homeowner purchase and apply to her yard?

  4. A homeowner came in the MG office with a “sick” Pine. • After studying it you determined it was Dothistroma Needle Blight. • What Fungicide would you recommend and when would you tell them to apply it?

  5. A commercial vegetable grower from Bixby has squash bugs in her pumpkins. • What insecticide can she use?

  6. A homeowner is raising cabbage & cauliflower (cole crops) • There seems to be lots of “worms” eating his crop. • He would like you to suggest an organic control, what would you suggest?

  7. Questions?

  8. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service Tulsa County

  9. Research Instruction Extension Oklahoma State UniversityOklahoma’s Land Grant University Three functions of a Land Grant University

  10. What is Cooperative Extension? • Created by Federal legislation - 1914 • Smith-Lever Act (“aid in diffusing among the people of the U.S. useful and practical information on subjects related to agriculture and home economics”) • Land Grant Colleges (Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act – 1862 & 1890) • Cooperative = 3 way partnership– Fed; State; County • Educators located in each of Oklahoma’s 77 counties

  11. OCES Mission: Improve the quality of life for Oklahomans through the transfer of University based research. OCES provides a direct link between the University and the people of Oklahoma.

  12. OSU President Vice President, Dean & Director Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Agriculture Sciences &Natural Resources Arts & Sciences Business Education Engineering, Architecture & Technology Human & Environmental Resources Vet Med DASNR Departments Animal Science Agronomy Ento & Plant Path Horticulture Ag Engr Ag Econ Ag Ed Associate Director Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service DistrictExtension Directors Area Specialists County Extension Directors & County Extension Educators

  13. Tulsa County OSU Extension Office County Extension Director Administrative Secretary Agriculture Educator Horticulture Educators 2 FTEs 4-H Youth Educators 3 FTEs Community Nutrition Education Program Coordinator 1 FTE Family and Consumer Sciences Educator 1 FTE Program Assistants 2 FTEs Secretary Secretary Secretary Program Assistants 8 FTEs

  14. County Educators Volunteer Support Peers in other Counties StateSupport District/Area Support The Cooperative Extension Team

  15. OCES • Four program areas: • Agriculture • 4-H Youth • Family and Consumer Science • Rural and Community Development

  16. Livestock Home Horticulture Forage and Pasture Ag Business Management NaturalResource Management Crops Focus Areas – Agriculture Commercial Horticulture

  17. The community is our classroom.

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