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Ohio State Making Strides in Working to Improve Water Quality
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-state-making-strides-in-working-improve-water-quality
experience,” Custer said. “We will also use OSU Extension and U.S. Department of Agriculture edge-of-field ... sector. Field to Faucet was conceived by Bruce McPheron, Ohio State’s vice president for agricultural ... Extension educators have or will have conducted on-farm and field trials throughout 2015 on the best ...
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Alex Heeren's Graduate Defense Seminar
https://senr.osu.edu/events/alex-heerens-graduate-defense-seminar
Lake Erie’s watersheds, perceive Lake Erie’s algal bloom issue using three different methods. First ... I examine the role the media has in portraying and framing Lake Erie’s algal blooms using a content analysis ... blooms using a series of focus groups. Third, I examine how different forms of farmer identity contribute ...
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Enhanced Soil Carbon Farming as a Climate Solution: Pastures and Hayfields in Ohio
participation in the project is to provide historical information about field management (tillage, fertilization ... evaluate soil carbon sequestration under perennial pasture fields and annual crops fields. Project ... sequestration. We are looking to compare fields under long-term use as perennial forage or to a nearby long-term ...
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CFAES is partnering with NRCS and Cargill for better soil health and water quality
practices that they might be thinking about using.” For Boden Fisher, his workday could involve being ... the project include the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service ... talking about the next projects to partner on,” she said. Among those projects could be further on-farm ...
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Building Raised Beds
https://cuyahoga.osu.edu/events/building-raised-beds
to grow. In this hands-on workshop, we will build examples of raised beds, while learning about their ... Raised beds improve drainage, warm up faster in the spring, and provide roots with plenty of room ... benefits, types of materials to use, and what type of soil to add. ...
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Investigation of water treatment alternatives in the removal of microcystin-LR
toxins. Full Project Information Read about the project at the Ohio Sea Grant website. ... New weapons for water treatment plants dealing with harmful algal blooms Principal Investigator ... expensive—solution is to use activated charcoal, but when there are a lot of toxins, that can translate into as much ...
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News tips and events for the week of Sept. 9
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/news-tips-and-events-for-the-week-sept-9
of people and pets. For more information about Lake Erie’s blooms, the media can contact Christopher ... knowledge about harmful algal blooms. Organized by Ohio State’s Ohio Sea Grant program. General ... these projects. In the past two years, the Ohio Power Siting Board has approved six large-scale solar ...
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Prevention Of Cyanobacterial Bloom Formation Using Cyanophages
Full Project Information Read about the project at the Ohio Sea Grant website. ... Using a virus to battle bacteria Principal Investigator Jiyoung Lee, Ohio State University ... for more than two days. Microcystins are a type of cyanobacteria produced by harmful algal blooms ...
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About Us
https://field2faucet.osu.edu/about-us
The Field to Faucet initiative is an innovative suite of reseach and extension efforts by The Ohio ... The initiative began in 2014 after a water quality crisis in Lake Erie due to harmful algal blooms ... a complementary set of research and development projects funded by the Ohio Department of Higher Education. ...
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2016 Farmer Led Water Quality Monitoring
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2016-farmer-led-water-quality-monitoring
with a water monitoring research project looking at Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus losses from fields ... data for all sites in the project. The data will be used to understand what conditions lead to DRP loss ... water drainage or other areas not under control of the farmer should not be used. The field main should ...