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  1. Water Quality Wednesdays (Virtual)

    https://agnr.osu.edu/events/water-quality-wednesdays-virtual-1

    will present on relevant topics that impact water quality in the Western Lake Erie Basin. Topics will ... include: nutrient/manure management, cover crops, water quality best management practices, and an overview ... Join the Water Quality Extension Associates for, "Water Quality Wednesdays" where they ...

  2. 'We are continuing to look for best management practices' to improve water quality

    https://students.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/we-are-continuing-look-for-best-management-practices-improve-water-quality

    With harmful algal blooms forecast to have increased this summer in western Lake Erie, experts ... have been an issue in Lake Erie since the 1960s. The blooms, which are harmful to wildlife and humans, ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  in July predicted  that the 2013 western Lake Erie harmful ...

  3. Seminar (Friday, April 20) to Discuss Environmental Regulations and Agriculture

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/seminar-friday-april-20-discuss-environmental-regulations-and-agriculture

    for reducing nutrient runoff in the Lake Erie watershed.” Greenhalgh is the portfolio leader for ... policy design. She is working on the design and implementation of agricultural nutrient management ... April 18, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- New Zealand's regulations on the environmental impacts of ...

  4. Farm Science Review: Water Control Structure Benefits Farmers and Environment

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/farm-science-review-water-control-structure-benefits-farmers-and-environment

    farm fields and reduce the risk of harmful algae blooms in Lake Erie and other Ohio lakes.  The system, ... called an Inline Water Level Control Structure, is designed to keep water and nutrients such as nitrates ... a model for drainage technology. The new control structures are part of the site’s comprehensive water ...

  5. Most farmers willing to take steps to protect water, says study done near lake Erie

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2014/most-farmers-willing-take-steps-protect

    Most farmers in northwest Ohio’s Maumee River watershed, Lake Erie’s largest tributary, are ... profits and don’t care about water quality, farmers are generally concerned about nutrient loss and the ... had adopted recommended “4R” nutrient management strategies. The four Rs stand for using the right ...

  6. Nutrient Management Key Theme of Ohio No-Till Conference

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/nutrient-management-key-theme-ohio-no-till-conference

    about nutrient management issues around Lake Erie and Grand Lake St. Marys, is perhaps the biggest topic ... critical importance of managing phosphorous and other nutrients through conservation tillage practices at ... his two key areas of expertise. The focus on water quality, given ongoing discussions across Ohio ...

  7. ‘Toledo was a wakeup call’: Dean announces new water quality initiative

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2014/%E2%80%98toledo-was-wakeup-call%E2%80%99-dean-announces

    16 at the Farm Science Review trade show, announced the creation of a new wide-ranging water quality ... of Toledo awoke to the news that parents could not draw water from their taps for their children. ... systems In early August, toxins produced by a harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie caused a two-day ...

  8. Greg LaBarge

    https://agnr.osu.edu/people/greg-labarge

    systems. Focus is specifically on nitrogen and phosphorus management effects on crop yield and water ... LaBarge, GA and Fausey, NR. (2017). Phosphorus Availability in Western Lake Erie Basin Drainage Waters ... University EXTENSION AND RESEARCH EMPHASIS  Nutrient and water quality impacts from row crop production ...

  9. Revised Phosphorus Index Can Help Curb Agricultural Runoff

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/revised-phosphorus-index-can-help-curb-agricultural-runoff

    a severe bloom in western Lake Erie shut down Toledo’s drinking water supply for two days. The On-Field ... Lake Erie. All with the help of an online program. The revised Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index is a program ... phosphorus reduction target in the Western Lake Erie Basin, said Dayton, a soil scientist in the college’s ...

  10. EPN Breakfast Club

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/epn-breakfast-club

    project earn water quality credits by using best management practices to reduce nutrient runoff from their ... quality trading “is an innovative market-based approach to achieving water quality goals for nutrients ... loading Reducing nutrient loading — specifically, of phosphorus and nitrogen — into water bodies can help ...

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