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Forage Crops
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 3
12/07/2010

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The first plant part to emerge from a seed
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the root
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most of the hay production in Ohio
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eastern part of the state
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Plants that germinate in the fall, overwinter and die after flowering in the next year
Definition
winter annuals
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Grass or other plants grown for feeding of grazing animal
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Pasture
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The Land Capability Class not suited for pasture
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Class VIII
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Any herbaceous broadleaf plant that is not a legume, a grass or grass-like
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a forb
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A panicle is a typical flower form found
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Grasses
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An underground stem
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Rhizome
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An appendage that grows around the junction of the leaf blade and sheath
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an auricle
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The first plant structure to emerge from a legume seed
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the root
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Most legume flowers have
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Keel
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After cutting clover, regrowth occurs
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the crown
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Tall Fescue
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C3 crop
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A group of bacteria forming a symbiotic relationship with a legume
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Bradyrhizobium
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The bacteria used to inoculate soybeans
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Bradyrhizobium japonicum
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What fertilizer element added in the fall will increase winter hardiness
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Potassium
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Two Production-Harvesting Avenues for forages
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Harvesting for food or for seed
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What are the three growth stages of grasses
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Vegetative, Transition, and Reproduction
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What is a watermark
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sign of nutrient poor conditions
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three ways to inoculate a crop with Rhizobium
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buy already inoculated seed, inoculated during planting, or add in with irrigation
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When a plant reacts to the length of light in a day
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Photoperiodism
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the duration of an organism's daily exposure to light
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Photoperiod
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