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WOOSTER, Ohio — Jeffrey LeJeune, a scientist with The Ohio State University, has started a three-month assignment in Rome to work with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to combat antibiotic resistance.
The FAO recruited LeJeune, head of the Food Animal Health Research Program in the university’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), to provide technical advice and to help launch and coordinate several of the initiatives outlined in a dire U.N. declaration on antibiotic resistance.
LeJeune participated in a U.N. gathering Sept. 21 when the entire assembly signed a political declaration requiring...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Enterprises, non-profits, and startups around the world are using the cloud to accelerate innovations that are changing the face of agriculture.
In support of The Ohio State University’s Discovery Themes initiative, and in tandem with the 2016 Farm Science Review, Amazon Web Services and experts from around the country will demonstrate how massive public data sets of satellite photos and other earth-observation data can be used in precision agriculture. Coupled with advanced sensor technology and the Internet of Things, these data sets can be used specifically to increase crop yield, conserve natural resources, create a safer and more resilient food-supply chain and fight hunger.
Ohio State will host the daylong event – a series of six demonstrations...
