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  1. 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. ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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) ...

  4. 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, ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. NW Ohio Producers Can Get Paid for Growing Perennial Forage

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2019-10/nw-ohio-producers-can-get-paid-growing-perennial-forage-0

    in the Western Lake Erie Basin Watershed.  This is a great opportunity to improve soils and conserve ... secondly from annual payments through the program. Land owners in the Western Lake Erie Basin Watershed can ... district office. For details of this and other Western Lake Erie Basin Phosphorus Reduction Programs see ...

  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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