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Soil, Water and Forage Laboratory offers quick, inexpensive testing for smart ag management

Thousands of soil, water, forage and feed, and animal waste samples are analyzed in the OSU lab every year.
Soil, Water and Forage Laboratory offers quick, inexpensive testing for smart ag management
Soil, Water and Forage Laboratory offers quick, inexpensive testing for smart ag management

Tue, Jun 3, 2025

Thousands of soil, water, forage and feed, and animal waste samples are analyzed in the OSU lab every year.

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Buy or bale: Run these numbers to calculate hay costs

Tue, Oct 1, 2024

Eric DeVuyst, OSU Extension agricultural economist, discusses the economic feasibility of buying and baling hay in the summer and fall.

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Prussic acid toxicity threatens livestock in extreme weather

Wed, Sep 13, 2023

Rainfall after a flash drought has heightened the threat of prussic acid toxicity in the Johnsongrass cattle often eat.

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OSU Extension reduces lab testing rates for drought-stricken producers

Wed, Oct 5, 2022

OSU's Soil, Water and Forage Analytical Laboratory has reduced costs for nitrate toxicity, forage and feed testing, and livestock water testing.

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RSVP now to attend Sept. 29 OSU Range Research Station Field Day

Fri, Sep 24, 2021

There is no cost to attend the 8 a.m. to noon field day at the OSU Marvin Klemme Range Research Station near Bessie and Clinton.

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Oklahoma Alfalfa Weevil Insecticide Resistance Study a statewide collaboration

Wed, May 19, 2021

Alfalfa weevils developing resistance to a given pyrethroid runs the risk of developing cross-resistance to all mode-of-action group three insecticides.

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Keep watch on obese horses eating green forage

Tue, May 18, 2021

Obesity in horses is never a desired condition, but especially so for animals that have developed equine metabolic syndrome (EMS), a condition similar to Type II Diabetes in people.

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