This Month in Ag Connection Publishing Information Ag Connection is published monthly for Central Missouri Region producers and is supported by University Outreach and Extension, the Commercial Agriculture program, the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station and the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, UM-Columbia. Please send your comments and suggestions to Don Day, Ag. To send a message to an author, click on the author's name at the end of an article. One of these is the ladybeetle.
Ladybeetles eat lots of aphids, insect eggs, and other insects.
Be careful in your selection of controls that you don't eliminate a very beneficial insect like these. For more information on ladybeetles and other insects, click here to see Jim Jarman's information on the web. Grasses in the growing stage acquire approximately ninety-five percent of the plant food from the air. Leaves are often considered food factories. They have the ability under sunshine conditions to combine carbon dioxide from the air, water, nitrates, and minerals from the soil to make plant food.