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  1. 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. ...

  2. 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. ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Cover Crops Can Improve Soil Health, Water Quality and Yields

    https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/cover-crops-can-improve-soil-health-water-quality-and-yields

    is a cause of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other lakes. In August, toxins from ... a bloom in western Lake Erie led to a two-day drinking water ban in Toledo. “The use of cover crops and ... nutrients out of surface water including Lake Erie, Grand Lake St. Marys and Buckeye Lake will find that ...

  5. Testing a new way to kill harmful algal blooms

    https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/testing-new-way-kill-harmful-algal-blooms

    a new technique for killing off harmful algal blooms in Ohio’s streams and lakes.  The technology being ... blooms on entire lakes as large as Lake Erie, she said. But the technology could potentially be used to ... treat streams entering those lakes, including Lake Erie.  “The sooner you can start cleaning the water ...

  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. 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, ...

  10. Precision University: Nutrient Technology

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

    and away from bodies of water, potentially contributing to algal blooms in Lake Erie and beyond. ... the land and ending up in Lake Erie or other waterways. The conference is being hosted by Ohio State ... become even better stewards of the land and water,” she said. Precision University will feature experts ...

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