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  1. OEFFA Publishes Article on Food Safety Planning Down on the Farm

    https://producesafety.osu.edu/news/oeffa-publishes-article-food-safety-planning-down-farm

    Certified Organic Farms  features case studies of eight vegetable and fruit farms of various scales and ... Food Safety Planning Down on the Farm: Examples from Ohio Certified Organic Farms This report can ... Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety rules.   Food Safety Planning Down on the Farm: Examples from Ohio ...

  2. Vinegar: Is it a “Safer” Herbicide?

    https://fairfield.osu.edu/news/vinegar-it-%E2%80%9Csafer%E2%80%9D-herbicide

    “Rain makes grain” is an ages old saying you might hear any time two or more farmers are gathered ... control properties, and presently there are three vinegar products labeled in Ohio. “Labeled” means they ... are legal for use to control pests, but only one of the three in Ohio is labeled as an herbicide. For ...

  3. Avian Influenza: What’s it mean for Fairfield County Poultry Growers and Exhibitors?

    https://fairfield.osu.edu/news/avian-influenza-what%E2%80%99s-it-mean-fairfield-county-poultry-growers-and-exhibitors

    flu. To date no cases have been reported in Ohio, however, on May 11, 2015 the Indiana Board of Animal ... poultry shows in Ohio for 2015) There’s been much in the media the past few months regarding the avian ... Health released a statement confirming a case of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza in a backyard ...

  4. Private Pesticide Applicator Testing

    https://fairfield.osu.edu/events/private-pesticide-applicator-testing

    the study session. Contact any Ohio County Extension office to purchase study materials or visit the ... instructions to download study materials. Participants must pre-register to take the test by visiting the Ohio ... an existing Ohio Private Applicator license, the Ohio Department of Agriculture will be testing on ...

  5. Zika Virus: is it a threat to Ohioans?

    https://fairfield.osu.edu/news/zika-virus-it-treat-ohioans

    U.S., but there had been approximately 380 travel-related cases, with 12 of those cases in Ohio. In ... conference sponsored by the Ohio Department of Health. The Disease and Current Status in Ohio The disease is ... virus. As of April 26, 2016 there were no local mosquito-transmitted cases of Zika in the continental ...

  6. Pesticide Licensing/Certification Testing

    https://fairfield.osu.edu/events/pesticide-licensingcertification-testing

    http://pested.osu.edu is designed to help answer questions about the licensing process, provide the necessary study ... Wednesday morning at the Ohio Department of Agriculture office near Reynoldsburg, we have also made ... Ohio Department of Agriculture will be present in the Fairfield County Ag Center in order to offer both ...

  7. Botulism: What is it?

    https://fairfield.osu.edu/news/botulism-what-it

    people may be affected by the toxin. The CDC states that all cases of botulism are caused by eating food ... contaminated with the toxin produced by the bacteria. The Ohio State University Extension fact sheet ... classes hosted by Ohio State University Extension. The next scheduled classes in Fairfield County will be ...

  8. Private Pesticide & Fertilizer Certification Testing, Offered in the Ag Center

    https://fairfield.osu.edu/events/private-pesticide-fertilizer-testing-oda

    The Ohio Department of Agriculture, Division of Persticide Regulation, will be in the Ag Center ... prove helpful for studying. Study materials for Private Pesticide testing can be secured from our ... after 10:30 a.m. on the 31st for an optional pre-test study session. ...

  9. Fresh Produce Traceability

    https://producesafety.osu.edu/traceability

    regulations, for persons who manufacture, process, pack, or hold foods.  In this new rule, stages in production ... maintained for two years. A farm map must be maintained in the traceability plan. Growers must initiate ...

  10. Bird Flu; What is it? How to avoid it?

    https://fairfield.osu.edu/news/bird-flu-what-it-how-avoid-it

    that in response all county fair poultry shows including ours and also poultry meets across Ohio were ... cancelled in 2015 in an effort to keep Ohio disease free. It worked, and now Ohio and the United States aim ... been no recent cases of bird flu involving any domestic poultry reported in the U.S., the virus is ...

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