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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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Advice for Making Local Watershed Projects More Inclusive
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/news/advice-making-local-watershed-projects-more-inclusive
Diversity is a fact. Equity is a choice. Inclusion is an action. Belonging is an outcome. Check ... https://northcentralwater.org/advice-for-making-local-watershed-projects-more-inclusive/ ...
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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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Alternative Green Certification Systems Favor Ohio's Timber Industry
under LEED certification. "If we are talking about reducing our carbon footprint, how much of ... intensively managed. And what about pressures to produce more, including the impacts from fertilizers and ... renewable wood products. The U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental ...
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OARDC, Ford Partner to Test Russian Dandelion Rubber for Car Parts
Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) in Wooster. The U.S. automaker is interested in substituting ... structures) and a 2-acre field on the Wooster campus. Plans for larger plantations and a pilot-scale ... Harris said. In addition to TKS, Ford is looking into the use of guayule (a southwestern U.S. shrub) as ...
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New Opportunities for Tomato Growers With Grafting
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/new-opportunities-tomato-growers-grafting
the three-year project, funded by OARDC SEEDS, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Organic Agriculture ... challenging field conditions, while maintaining ties to sustainability for consumers." For the project ... May 13, 2010 WOOSTER, Ohio – Open field and high tunnel tomato producers yearning for high-quality ...
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OARDC Receives National Research Award for Critical Soybean Rust Work
earned the award along with colleagues from more than 30 U.S. and Canadian land-grant ... universities, federal agencies and industry associations involved in the project, officially called NCERA (North Central ... fact that our multistate research network enables the land-grant colleges of agriculture to rapidly ...
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International Relations Bringing Agribusiness Skills to Africa
Africa to bring agribusiness skills to its country's residents. Through a $100,000, two-year U.S ... agricultural economy in Tanzania by educating and training those entering private sector agribusinesses. ... Tanzania. "This is a novel change for us and the university has a role to play in developing this new ...
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Phosphorous
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1538
important fertilizer, but is also present in human and animal wastes, in sludges and in detergents. ... water sample. There is no health-based standard for phosphorous. If you have concerns about the levels ... detected, please consult your physician. 0.05- 0.07 Runoff from fertilizer use; Leaching from septic tanks, ...