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FABE Researchers Receive $5 Million Grant to Study Runoff from 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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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SWBR receives research funding
https://southcenters.osu.edu/spring-summer-2022/swbr-receives-research-funding
agriculturally-induced algal blooms and associated cyanotoxins in lakes and reservoirs. This project is aimed at the ... the mitigation of the edge-of-field P and N loss responsible for algal blooms and water quality ... problems of Lake Erie. In addition, the Soil, Water, and Bioenergy team, along with Central State ...
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Nutrient Management Plan Development Program
https://agcrops.osu.edu/NutrientManagementPlanDevelopmentProgram
project is targeted to the Western Lake Erie Watershed of Ohio working directly with two constituent ... individuals who farm in the Western Lake Erie Basin. The Nutrient Management Plan Writers are a team working ... to assist farmers in developing Nutrient Management Plans (NMP) in the Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...