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  1. ‘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 ... and to ensure clean drinking water across Ohio. Video: CFAES Communications. “Ohio State University, ... Bruce McPheron, Ohio State’s vice president for agricultural administration, while speaking Sept. ...

  2. 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

    willing to take at least one additional action to reduce nutrient losses from their farms, provided they ... profits as well as how it will impact local water quality,” said Wilson, associate professor in the School ... profits and don’t care about water quality, farmers are generally concerned about nutrient loss and the ...

  3. Teaming up with farmers to protect Ohio’s water

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/july-august-2014/teaming-farmers-protect-ohio%E2%80%99s-water

    improve the state’s water quality. Now in its second year, the On-Field Ohio project aims to make the ... Resources. Phosphorus is an agricultural pollutant often implicated in reduced water quality in Ohio. It is ... Conservation Innovation Grant and $1 million in matching donations from Ohio farm groups are supporting the ...

  4. Study: Spreading gypsum on farms can help keep water clean, not green

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2014/study-spreading-gypsum-farms-can-help-keep

    into a three-year study of gypsum’s benefits on farms, including to soil quality, crop yields and ... Gypsum, which has roots in the past as a farm soil treatment, also may have a bright future, and ... not just as a booster of crops but also a protector of water. OARDC scientist Warren Dick is two years ...

  5. Martin to lead Field to Faucet water program, has ‘ability to bring people together’

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/july-august-2015/martin-lead-field-faucet-water-program-has-

    while maintaining productive, profitable farming. “Solving the water quality problem in Ohio will take ... OARDC scientist Jay Martin, pictured, has been picked to lead Ohio State’s Field to Faucet water ... quality program. A response to last summer’s Toledo water crisis and the ongoing harmful algal bloom ...

  6. Online tool that helps protect water is now being made even better

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/july-august-2016/online-tool-helps-protect-water-now-being-made

    protecting Ohio surface water quality while maintaining agricultural production is a charge we take ... seriously,” she said. “I am increasingly optimistic that it can be done.” “Protecting water quality while ... runoff is one of the causes of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie and other bodies of water. To contact ...

  7. EPN Breakfast Club

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

    and Others in the Ohio River Basin Establish the World’s Largest Water Quality Trading Program” is ... from 7:15 to 9:40 a.m. Feb. 23 in the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center at The Ohio State ... the School of Environment and Natural Resources  in Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and ...

  8. Seeing (and using) the good in manure and keeping our water clean, too

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2015/seeing-and-using-good-manure-and-keeping

    Called Field to Faucet, it aims to ensure safe water for all Ohioans while keeping the state’s farms ... manure is a positive step in the direction of better water quality.” “Every positive step we take in ... properly applying manure is a positive step in the direction of better water quality.”—Glen Arnold ...

  9. Western Nutrient Management and Placement Field Day

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/western-nutrient-management-and-placement-field-day

    runoff from their fields, said co-organizer Greg LaBarge, an agronomic field specialist with  Ohio State ... Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences  at The Ohio State University. Learn all about the ‘4 Rs’ Participants ... water quality will be covered. The field demos will show various fertilizer and manure application ...

  10. Muck Crops Agricultural Research Station

    https://oardc.osu.edu/facility/muck-crops-agricultural-research-station

    4875 SR 103 S. Willard, OH 44890 One mile south of Willard on SR 103 (Huron County, Ohio) Muck ... near Celeryville to the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station for use as an experimental farm. In 2009, ... generated at the Station is also invaluable to other muck-crop growers in Ohio, across the United States ...

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