Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | pmg-ky2.com | Adam Thomas

    In the garden, the practice of deadheading your plants can promote more blooms. Plants live to reproduce, and the way they do that is through their flowers. When you remove dead blooms from a plant, you also remove their ovaries. Many plants then take the energy it would have used to produce seeds and put it into producing more flowers, hoping the next time you’ll leave it alone to do its job. Of course, if you want continuous bloom in the garden, you won’t.

  • 2 weeks ago | pmg-ky2.com | Adam Thomas

    Spontaneous combustion hay fires have caused loss of life and valuable nutrition for livestock, but you can prevent them if you keep a watchful eye and know the signs of a problem. Baling hay at appropriate moistures and monitoring the temperature of recently baled hay are your best tools. Generally, hay will go through a heating phase within one to two weeks after baling.

  • 1 month ago | pmg-ky2.com | Adam Thomas

    The sun is important for farmers’ careers and livelihoods, but the sun’s powerful rays do not always shine to your benefit. Since you spend most of your time outdoors, you are at increased risk of not only getting suntans but also sunburns and skin cancers compared to other segments of the population. While they may seem like a harmless part of your occupation, suntans are your bodies’ defense mechanism against too much sun and can cause your skin to prematurely age.

  • 1 month ago | pmg-ky2.com | Adam Thomas

    The rainfall received across the state the last few weeks has led to delays in planting, hay harvesting, and pretty much hampers any progress with most spring related processes. However, with the large amounts received many pastures are muddy, soggy, and standing in water. These conditions are conducive to the development of “foot rot” in grazing livestock. Foot rot is most often caused by the bacterium Fusobacterium necrophorum.

  • 1 month ago | udel.edu | Amy Wolf |Adam Thomas |Nya Wynn

    Not even Olympic rowers can row perfectly, but that doesn’t stop Cornelia Meiss from trying. It’s what the University of Delaware senior, a member of the Blue Hen rowing team, loves about the sport — how it’s both calming and relentless, how there’s always room to improve. “It’s just an amazing sport,” said Meiss, an international student from Germany. “It’s very calming, because it’s the same movement over and over again.

Contact details

Socials & Sites

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers
6K
Tweets
25K
DMs Open
Yes
No Tweets found.