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  1. More Fertilizer Certification Opportunities in 2018

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/more-fertilizer-certification-opportunities-2018

    application determines how extensive the algal blooms become in Lake Erie. Warmer weather leads to warmer ... the land with rainwater and into nearby waters, especially Lake Erie, which has been plagued by high ... levels of algal blooms. Since Sept. 30, 2017, certification has been required for anyone who applies ...

  2. New Study Will Track Ways to Cut Runoff from Elevated Phosphorus Fields

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/new-study-will-track-ways-cut-runoff-elevated-phosphorus-fields

    contributing to Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms. That’s the premise of a new five-year, $5 million study that ... a significant driver of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie. The blooms are sometimes toxic, are often ... phosphorus is released from the soil and ends up in Lake Erie, where it contributes to harmful algal blooms ...

  3. Event to Look at Farming, Water Quality, Ohio's Efforts for Both

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/event-look-farming-water-quality-ohios-efforts-both

    was established in 2014 by Senate Bill 150 after a toxic algal bloom in western Lake Erie shut down ... Agriculture. But that industry also is a contributor to the harmful algal blooms that have plagued Lake Erie ... phosphorus runoff at more than two dozen Ohio farm fields, including some in western Lake Erie’s watershed. ...

  4. Environmental Professional Network Breakfast- Ag & Water Quality Issues

    https://agnr.osu.edu/events/environmental-professional-network-breakfast-ag-water-quality-issues

    was established in 2014 by Senate Bill 150 after a toxic algal bloom in western Lake Erie shut down ... Agriculture. But that industry also is a contributor to the harmful algal blooms that have plagued Lake Erie ... phosphorus runoff at more than two dozen Ohio farm fields, including some in western Lake Erie’s watershed. ...

  5. CFAES Research Conference Will Focus on Water Quality

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/cfaes-research-conference-will-focus-water-quality

    fertilizer and manure runoff is one of the causes of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other ... Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) will dive into water, including Lake Erie and ... director of the Ohio State-based Ohio Sea Grant program and CFAES’s Stone Laboratory on Lake Erie. Latest ...

  6. New App Helps Farmers Know When to Spray or Spread

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/new-app-helps-farmers-know-when-spray-or-spread

    the time. For example, the Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership sets laws that prohibit farmers from ... Erie, you have a greater potential for harmful algal blooms,” Wilson said. “This is detrimental to the ... fertilizer and pesticide is actually acting upon their crops, then it’s difficult to predict growth. The app ...

  7. Farmers need to gear up for more rain

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/farmers-need-gear-more-rain

    said. In 2017, Lake Erie recorded its third largest harmful algal bloom ever reported. Phosphorus runoff ... of nutrients, such as phosphorous and nitrogen, entering Lake Erie and other bodies of water, Wilson ... is a main driver of the lake’s blooms. Farmers might want to look into other measures – such as ...

  8. Changes Made to Rules on Applying Fertilizer

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/changes-made-rules-applying-fertilizer

    of 2017 algal blooms in Lake Erie was the fourth most severe in a century, according to a November ... certified, a measure aimed at keeping nutrients from farm fields from contributing to algal blooms in Lake ... Erie and other bodies of water. Phosphorus and nitrogen in fertilizer can trigger the growth of algal ...

  9. Efficient Lawn Care Practices to Help Protect Ohio’s Waterways

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5812

    economy, and recreation. For example, the HAB of 2014 in the Western Basin of Lake Erie resulted in ... many water resources from small streams and ponds to regional lakes, rivers, and Lake Erie. Harmful ... algal blooms (HABs) can have a significant impact on water quality, which effects human health, the ...

  10. Precision University: Nutrient Technology

    https://agnr.osu.edu/events/precision-university-nutrient-technology

    that prevents it from running off the land and ending up in Lake Erie or other waterways. The ... phosphorous and nitrogen in the soil and away from bodies of water, potentially contributing to algal blooms ... in Lake Erie and beyond. “We’re trying to bring attention to a relevant topic,” said Kaylee Port, ...

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