College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
By: Maria Smith, HCS-OSU
While we anticipate yet another round of arctic air here in Ohio this coming week, we are forecast to be well-above the temperatures we achieved just a few weeks ago (>0F) and not expecting compounding injury from January.
They say history doesn’t repeat, rather it rhymes. And right now, it’s feeling much like January 2014-2015 over here:
By: Maria Smith and Imed Dami, HCS-OSU
It is no surprise to anyone who has been out in the vineyard pruning that hydraulic pressurization and sap flow (“bleeding”) from pruning wounds has been seen earlier than normal due to the above average temperatures over March (Fig 1, photo).
By: Imed Dami, HCS-OSU
By: Imed Dami, Diane Kinney, and Megan Soehnlen, HCS-OSU
