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Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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This spring we have been seeing a lot of samples in the office of ash trees with young leaves curling under and a funny white fluffy substance on them. This is the leaf curl aphid also known as the woolly ash aphid. This tiny insect infests and feeds on the newly emerging leaves and young stems of ash trees in the early spring. The aphid is tiny, about 1/8 inch; pear shaped and usually white to green. The bodies are covered in a white, waxy filament that gives them a cottony or woolly...
It is with a heavy heart that we inform the public that there will be no Free Tree Day for 2020. The restrictions for crowd gathering prohibit us from holding this wonderful program. With the wonderful turnout we have had in the past of over 250 people, it just isn’t feasible for us to risk endangering the public, the Gumbo Gals garden club and ourselves. We will be back in 2021 to continue this program that has helped us give away almost 20,000 trees in the past 11 years. Stay safe and stay healthy.... Full story
Please join the Valley County Weed District and MSU Extension on Saturday, Sept. 22, for a Range and Pasture Noxious Weed Management Tour. The tour starts at Stoughie’s in Hinsdale at 1 p.m. with MSU Extension Agent Shelley Mills starting the program with a discussion of transportation of noxious weeds in hay and the Noxious Weed Seed Free Forage program. Attendees will carpool or ride a bus to the first stop, south of Hinsdale, to look at spotted knapweed infestations and listen to Steve Saunders, from Bridger AgVentures, LLC., discuss m... Full story
Anyone can get bed bugs - it is not a matter of cleanliness but more of transportation. They only need a place to hide and a human host to feed on. Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are wingless, oval, reddish-brown insects about ¼ inch long that feed primarily on the blood of humans. They are most often found around, or near the bed but when populations are large they may move to other rooms. They can live up to a year with females laying nearly 400 eggs during that time. The bite of bedbugs can leave a swollen, red, irritated welt usually in clust...
With increased awareness of the importance of pollinators, bees and beekeeping has become much more mainstream today than 30 years ago. Three workshops – Beginning Beekeeping, In the Bee Yard, and Harvesting and Winterizing, were held on Saturdays in March, May and September, respectively. Bee enthusiasts from five counties attended the day-long workshops which included lunch, demonstrations and door prizes. During the first workshop, participants learned the basics of bee biology, plants and planting for foraging bees, and how to manage b... Full story
The Glasgow MSU Extension office has a trio of events coming up in the Valley County area. Exhibit Workshop MSU Extension and the Valley County Fair Commission are hosting a free workshop on Monday, July 18, from 6 - 8 p.m. at the Valley County Courthouse. The workshop will focus on entering and exhibiting horticultural and gardening projects in the Northeast Montana Fair. We will be having guest speaker James Sagmiller, who has been gardening and exhibiting both flowers and vegetables since the...