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Water Withdrawal Regulation in South Carolina

Apr 27, 2022 | Agriculture, Natural Resources, Ponds, Water

Water use and reporting regulations in South Carolina have gone through substantial changes over time. Current regulations contain permitting, registration, and reporting requirements for...

Gummy Stem Blight on Watermelon and Muskmelon

Apr 21, 2022 | Agriculture, Horticulture, Watermelon

Gummy stem blight is one of the most common foliar diseases on watermelon, muskmelon, honeydew, and other specialty melons in the southeastern United States. How severe the disease becomes depends...

How to Stay Safe Around Chainsaws

Apr 20, 2022 | Forestry, Natural Resources

While professional users of chainsaws must follow Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements to keep them safe, the non-professional user is not subject to the same...

Controlling Bacterial Spot on Tomato and Pepper

Mar 28, 2022 | Agriculture, Horticulture

Growers in the southeastern United States often have problems with bacterial spot on tomato and pepper. Although four species of the Xanthomonas bacterium are involved, in most areas, X. perforans...

Powdery Mildew on Watermelon

Mar 28, 2022 | Agriculture, Horticulture, Watermelon

Powdery mildew (caused by the fungus named Podosphaera xanthii) was consistently among the most prevalent diseases of watermelon in a survey of foliar diseases done in 2015 and 2016, second only to...

Logging Operations and Soil Compaction

Mar 14, 2022 | Forestry, Natural Resources, Wildlife

Soil is highly sensitive to improper logging activities that can cause long-lasting soil compaction and reduce forest productivity, seedling growth, and survival. All logging operations can cause...

The Art of Asking Good Questions

Mar 3, 2022 | Teaching Section

Education involves more than the accumulation of knowledge; it requires the development of skills necessary to analyze, evaluate and apply knowledge. One critical thinking skill is the ability to...

Real-time Polling to Increase Student Learning in Medium- to Large-Sized Courses

Mar 3, 2022 | Teaching Section

Real-time student polling offers many benefits to instructors and students. This publication will give instructors insight into the reasons to poll students and review the pros and cons of currently...

Experiential Student Learning through Culinary Nutrition Techniques on Heirloom Vegetables

Mar 3, 2022 | Teaching Section

The purpose of this publication is to describe an experiential student learning activity that incorporated research, culinary arts techniques, and guest speaker support into an undergraduate,...

Using Inquiry-Based Instruction to Teach STEM Concepts in Changing Learning Environments

Mar 3, 2022 | Teaching Section

This publication introduces an indirect method of instruction, Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI), as an example for teachers to actively engage students in the learning process while emphasizing...

Youth Livestock Beef Projects for Showing

Feb 26, 2022 | Agriculture, Livestock, Livestock and Forages

Youth livestock projects offered through 4-H or Future Farmers of America (FFA) offer experiences and life lessons that follow participants throughout their lives and enable them to make positive...

4-H Healthy Movers Curriculum

Feb 17, 2022 | 4-H Curricula, Curricula, Health, Nutrition, Youth

The Healthy Movers curriculum is designed for use in school-based and 4-H club settings with youth in grades 3-7. Special attention has been given to making these activities budget-friendly, easily...

Japanese Beetle as a Pest of Field Corn

Feb 14, 2022 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn

Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica, is a generalist pest capable of feeding on over 300 different plant species, many of which are of economic importance.1 One of the main crops that Japanese beetle...

Conservation Easement Amendments: A Landowner Guide

Jan 31, 2022 | Forestry, Natural Resources

As states and local communities look toward nonregulatory methods to protect natural resources, conservation easements (CEs) have become an increasingly popular tool for land conservation. CEs can...

Managing Insect Pests in Field Corn using Transgenic Bt Technology

Jan 3, 2022 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn

Much of the field corn produced in the United States expresses an insecticidal toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that helps the plant control or suppress insect pests without the need for...