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  1. Good news: Ohio’s soil phosphorus levels are trending down

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/good-news-ohio%E2%80%99s-soil-phosphorus-levels-trending-down

    farming, water quality Phosphorus soil testing is an important tool for farmers. They use it to determine ... about protecting surface water quality while maintaining agricultural production, said CFAES scientists ... (go.osu.edu/Bawz). Phosphorus runoff from farm fields is one of the causes of the harmful algal blooms plaguing ...

  2. Important Issues in Water Quality and Nutrient Placement Conference

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/important-issues-water-quality-and-nutrient-placement-conference

    How to improve water quality across the region will be discussed by Ohio State University ... Pulse of Ohio Watersheds” by Laura Johnson, director of the National Center for Water Quality Research ... Conservation Society March 14. The “Important Issues in Water Quality and Nutrient Placement” conference will ...

  3. Water Quality

    https://oardc.osu.edu/impacts/water-quality

    University are working to solve this problem and improve Ohio’s water quality by helping farmers continue to ... algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other bodies of water in recent years. Researchers at The Ohio State ... Experts say soluble phosphorus runoff from farms is one of several contributors to the harmful ...

  4. Precision Ag Field Day (Hardin County)

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/events/precision-ag-field-day-hardin-county

    Ohio State University Extension, USDA, ODA, Farm Bureau, and private industry will be on the program ... monitoring nutrients for water quality, variable rate fertilizer technology, managing big data on the farm ... Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network in cooperation with Ohio Farm Bureau and USDA. Existing edge of ...

  5. Precision Ag Field Day August 23

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2017-24/precision-ag-field-day-august-23

    Ohio State University Extension, USDA, ODA, Farm Bureau, and private industry will be on the program ... Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network in cooperation with Ohio Farm Bureau and USDA.  Existing edge of ... that will help improve crop input efficiency, lower cost of production, while protecting our water ...

  6. Agriculture and Water Quality: How do TMDLs and Edge-of-Field Monitoring fit in?

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/events/agriculture-and-water-quality-how-do-tmdls-and-edge-field-monitoring-fit

    for improving it, will provide insight into edge-of-field research being performed at The Ohio State ... Hear what practices are improving and impeding water quality efforts and learn how TMDLs can affect the ... This event, focused on water quality, the practices that impact it, and the potential solutions ...

  7. CFAES Research Conference Will Focus on Water Quality

    https://agnr.osu.edu/news/cfaes-research-conference-will-focus-water-quality

    Improve Water Quality in Ohio.” The conference is from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Shisler Conference ... college’s Water Quality Task Force. Cathann A. Kress, Ohio State’s vice president for agricultural ... State University. Arkansas’s  Andrew Sharpley  will present “Agriculture, Phosphorus and Water Quality ...

  8. Manure practices, not glamorous, can be a star for both food crops and water

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/september-october-2014/manure-practices-not-glamorous-can-be-star

    Ohio Livestock Coalition, an event sponsor. “Nutrient management and water quality are critical ... storage and application. Speakers came from OARDC, Ohio State University Extension (OARDC’s outreach ... partner), the farming community, and state and federal agencies. “Manure is an excellent product for ...

  9. '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

    Survey: BMPs help improve water quality In fact, a strong majority of row crop farmers living within the ... that it is likely to have a negative impact on water quality and profit potential, said Greg LaBarge, ... practices farmers can implement to reduce farm field phosphorus lost into water resources, which increases ...

  10. Conservation Tillage Conference

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/conservation-tillage-conference

    conference will also offer a focus on Ohio’s water quality concerns and on some of the ways to deal with ... those issues, including how to save money, improve water quality, and manage soil erosion and ... the event, nearly half, 400, are certified crop advisers, said Harold Watters, an Ohio State ...

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