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Manure practices, not glamorous, can be a star for both food crops and water
fertilizer and manure is a cause of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other water bodies. Lake ... Erie will again have — or, at this writing, may have already had — a significant harmful algal bloom ... technologies that can help keep rivers, lakes and streams clean, said David White, executive director of the ...
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Field to Faucet making strides in improving Ohio’s water quality
Jay Martin talks about Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms and the Field to Faucet program ’s efforts to ... monitor harmful algal blooms in lakes and farm ponds. Conducting edge-of-field research that will compare ... put $1 million in college funding toward the effort after harmful algal blooms caused dangerous ...
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Study: Spreading gypsum on farms can help keep water clean, not green
of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other lakes. Gypsum, when spread on a farm field, ... Dick’s research is taking place on farms in the Maumee River watershed, Lake Erie’s largest tributary, ... and around Grand Lake St. Marys, which also has suffered from the blooms. To contact the scientist: ...
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Good news: Ohio’s soil phosphorus levels are trending down
western Lake Erie and other water bodies. To contact the scientist: Elizabeth Dayton at dayton.15@osu.edu. ... (go.osu.edu/Bawz). Phosphorus runoff from farm fields is one of the causes of the harmful algal blooms plaguing ... which came through the college’s Field to Faucet initiative, represent good news for Ohioans concerned ...
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Martin to lead Field to Faucet water program, has ‘ability to bring people together’
quality program. A response to last summer’s Toledo water crisis and the ongoing harmful algal bloom ... problems in Lake Erie and other lakes, the new program aims to ensure safe drinking water for all Ohioans ... Engineering. For the past 10 years, he has focused his research on the Lake Erie basin in concert with ...
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Important Issues in Water Quality and Nutrient Placement Conference
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/important-issues-water-quality-and-nutrient-placement-conference
a hot topic because seldom does a day go by without a news article on water issues such as algal blooms ... in Lake Erie or contaminated drinking water.” Topics to be discussed include: · “Healthy ... Extension, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and industry experts in agriculture, ...
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Extension Educator FACT
https://pested.osu.edu/node/108
for pdf file Regulations for Lake Erie Western Basin brochure- click here for pdf file Regulations for ... Lake Erie Western Basin small poster- click here for pdf file PEP-Talk Newsletter Current Issue of ... News for OSU Extension Educators Register upcoming county pesticide recertification and/or ...
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EPN Breakfast Club
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/epn-breakfast-club
reduce or prevent algal blooms and low-oxygen “dead zones.” Both the Ohio River and Lake Erie suffered ... record-setting algal blooms last summer. Speaking at the event will be: Jessica Fox, senior program manager for ...
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Online tool that helps protect water is now being made even better
runoff is one of the causes of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie and other bodies of water. To contact ...
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Lake Erie Western Basin Watershed Regulations for Fertilizer & Manure Applications
https://pested.osu.edu/WesternBasin
Lake Erie Western Basin Watershed Regulations for Fertilizer and Manure Applications Click on ... applies for anywhere in Ohio-- not just the Lake Erie Western Basin Watershed Click for a brochure ... summarizing the regulations: Page 1 Page 2 Click here for more information about Western Lake Erie Basin ...