osu extension agents’ handbook of insect, plant disease, and weed control
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OSU Extension Agents’ Handbook of Insect, Plant Disease, and Weed Control. EAH is Published Annually. A homeowner has white grubs in her lawn. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
OSU Extension Agents’ Handbook
of Insect, Plant Disease, and Weed Control
EAH is Published Annually
A homeowner has white grubs in her lawn.
What insecticide would you suggest the homeowner purchase and apply to her yard?
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?
A commercial vegetable grower from Bixby has squash
bugs in her pumpkins.
What insecticide can she use?
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?
Questions?
Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service
Tulsa County
Oklahoma State UniversityOklahoma’s Land Grant University
Three functions of a Land Grant University
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
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.
OSU President
District Extension Directors
County Extension Directors & County Extension Educators
Agriculture Sciences & Natural Resources
Arts & Sciences
Business
Education
Engineering, Architecture & Technology
Human & Environmental Resources
Vet Med
Area Specialists
Vice President, Dean & Director Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Associate DirectorOklahoma Cooperative Extension
Service
DASNR Departments
Animal Science
Agronomy
Ento & Plant Path
Horticulture
Ag Engr
Ag Econ
Ag Ed
Tulsa County OSU Extension Office
County Extension Director
Horticulture Educators
2 FTEs
Family and Consumer Sciences Educator
1 FTE
4-H Youth Educators
3 FTEs
Program Assistants2 FTEs
Community Nutrition Education Program
Coordinator
1 FTE
Secretary
Program Assistants
8 FTEs
Secretary
Administrative Secretary
Agriculture Educator
Secretary
The Cooperative Extension Team
Peers in other Counties
District/Area Support
StateSupport
Volunteer Support
County Educators
OCES
Four program areas:– Agriculture– 4-H Youth– Family and Consumer Science– Rural and Community Development
Focus Areas – Agriculture
Forage and Pasture
Livestock
Ag Business Management
CropsNatural Resource
Management
Commercial
Horticulture
Home Horticulture
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