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New Irrigation Methods Featured at OSU Extension Field Night
August 4, 2009 PIKETON, Ohio – The irrigation demonstration and training unit of Ohio State ... University South Centers at Piketon will be featured at the upcoming OSU South Centers Horticulture Field ... at 1864 Shyville Road, Piketon, Ohio. A fertilizer injection demonstration, new to the irrigation ...
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Livestock Manure a Winner As Alternative Spring Crop Fertilizer
to produce yields comparable to traditional fertilizer applications, and the alternative option may ... area farmers for the past two years to determine how well swine manure applications to corn and wheat ... in the spring compare to traditional applications of nitrogen and urea. What the group found was that ...
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Ohio EPA Awards Nearly $200,000 for Sustainability Efforts on OSU Farm/Research Facility
Agriculture and Natural Resources Laboratory (2433 Carmack Rd.). The projects will serve as application tools ... Water Conservation District to demonstrate several progressive projects on OSU's Waterman ... residents. "The educational project will provide on-the-ground examples of how to improve operations and ...
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Food-Borne Pathogens May Be Controlled Through Manure Management
Animal manure, used as a natural fertilizer on fields and organic crops, is just one way that food-borne ... use manure to fertilize their crops are recommended to compost their manure before application, since ... the project collaborators. More than 150 pathogens can cause zoonotic infections. "We'll ...
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Freshwater Prawn Finding Niche in Ohio Aquaculture
been harvested (about 600 pounds). What started out eight years ago as a trial run for South Centers ... aquaculturists has turned into a yearly research project geared toward Ohio farmers looking for new crops and ... alternative income. "What I find so fascinating about the freshwater prawn is that it is the size of ...
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Freshwater Prawn Finding Niche in Ohio Aquaculture
over 9,000 prawns had been harvested (about 600 pounds). What started out eight years ago as a trial ... run for South Centers aquaculturists has turned into a yearly research project geared toward Ohio ... farmers looking for new crops and alternative income. ââ¬ÅWhat I find so fascinating about the ...
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Piketon Field Night Aug. 11 Includes Pumpkin Pollination, Drip Irrigation, Small Fruit, Tomatoes
tour of OSU South Center’s fields and learn about the pumpkin pollinator research project, new small ... August 5, 2011 PIKETON, Ohio – The Annual Horticulture Field Night will be held Thursday, Aug. 11, ... funding opportunities through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation ...
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Fertilizing Perennial Forages on Dairy Farms
Science and Greg LaBarge, Agronomic Field Specialist, Ohio State University Extension Early fall is one of ... the best times to topdress maintenance fertilizer on perennial forages. Soils are usually firm in ... vigorous regrowth the following spring. Remember that hay crops will remove about 50 lb of K 2 O and 12 lb ...
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Fill Up on Gas from Garbage? Ohio State Campus in Wooster to Try It … at $2.25 a Gallon
associate director and one of the project’s planners. That proximity “led us to say, ‘Let’s go ahead and ... need fewer oil changes and should last longer, says a DOE fact sheet. The project will try to document ... costs only about two-thirds as much as gasoline and, when burned, emits about a third less greenhouse ...
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Fertility Management of Meadows and Pastures
commercial fertilizer application will not affect crop yields. Soil P levels of over 35 ppm and K levels of ... content of the forage stand. The OSU fertilizer recommendations omit applications of N when the forage ... producers look for ways to cut costs and one possibility would be not applying fertilizer to pastures and ...