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Ohio State Improving Water Quality, One Farm at a Time
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-state-improving-water-quality-one-farm-time
in Lake Erie’s waters. Microcystin is a toxin made by certain harmful algal blooms. · A sensor ... will be developed to detect real-time concentrations of microcystin in Lake Erie’s waters. Field to ... creating a tri-state cost-share program to help protect water quality in the western basin of Lake Erie ...
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News tips and events for the week of June 17
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/news-tips-and-events-for-the-week-june-17
Lake Erie, 2–3 p.m., Pavilion West Deck, 236 Walnut Ave., Lakeside, Ohio. Ohio Sea Grant ... Sea Grant presentation on Lake Erie’s unique fish species, including game fish and species threatened ... available to discuss proposed cutbacks to Clean Water Act protections for wetlands and streams: In a new ...
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More Fertilizer Certification Opportunities in 2018
https://agnr.osu.edu/news/more-fertilizer-certification-opportunities-2018
the land with rainwater and into nearby waters, especially Lake Erie, which has been plagued by high ... their toxins. With so many factors affecting the water quality of Lake Erie, it’s impossible to put ... of ways to improve what they’re doing, in terms of nutrient management,” said Greg LaBarge, an OSU ...
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Tax or Subsidy? How to Reduce Lake Erie Phosphorus Sources
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/tax-or-subsidy-how-reduce-lake-erie-phosphorus-sources
cheaper than many of the proposed measures being recommended to reduce phosphorus in Lake Erie, Sohngen ... of harmful algal blooms, which poisoned Toledo’s drinking water in 2014 and impact the lake ... by the water quality issue including Toledo and lake area residents to pay for improved water ...
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On-Farm Research
Summary of 2016 On-Farm Research focused on Nutrient Stewardship for Cleaner Water ...
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CFAES Research Conference Will Focus on Water Quality
https://agnr.osu.edu/news/cfaes-research-conference-will-focus-water-quality
Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) will dive into water, including Lake Erie and ... Arkansas, where his research focuses on nutrient cycling in soil-water-plant systems and its relation to ... director of the Ohio State-based Ohio Sea Grant program and CFAES’s Stone Laboratory on Lake Erie. Latest ...
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Precision University: Nutrient Technology
https://agnr.osu.edu/events/precision-university-nutrient-technology
Conference Offers Advice on Nutrient Management With so much focus on fertilizer these days, where ... that prevents it from running off the land and ending up in Lake Erie or other waterways. The ... in Lake Erie and beyond. “We’re trying to bring attention to a relevant topic,” said Kaylee Port, ...
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NSCW Long-term Goals
resulting toxin in Lake Erie waters, especially the western basin Reduced loading of Phosphorus in ... utilization and manage nutrients as a system to increase economic returns and reduce water quality impacts by ... accordance with the Phosphorus Task Force goals Utilization of adaptive management to improve nutrient ...
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Cover Crops Can Improve Soil Health, Water Quality and Yields
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/cover-crops-can-improve-soil-health-water-quality-and-yields
“Farmers wanting to keep nutrients out of surface water including Lake Erie, Grand Lake St. Marys and ... other lakes. In August, toxins from a bloom in western Lake Erie led to a two-day drinking water ban in ... say phosphorus runoff from farmland is a cause of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and ...
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Learn About World’s Largest Water Quality Trading Program
water quality goals for nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen,” according to the project’s website. ... Farmers participating in the project earn water quality credits by using best management practices to ... reducing nutrient loading Reducing nutrient loading — specifically, of phosphorus and nitrogen — into water ...