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Chemical Soil Health
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0204
maintaining productive farms, improving water quality, and ensuring long-term soil health. Understanding the ... environmental functions. In Ohio, maintaining balanced soil chemistry is essential for productive farming, water ... Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; The Ohio State University Jim Ippolito, Dr. Rattan Lal ...
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Farm Science Review 2018: Plenty of Sunshine, a Larger Exhibit Area and Lots of Corn Hats
Alayna DeMartini LONDON, Ohio — Under sunny skies for three days, visitors to the 56th annual Farm ... corn 12 rows at a time in one of the many field demonstrations of cutting-edge equipment. Attendees at ... farm in eastern Ohio, hadn’t been to the Review since he was in high school nearly 20 years ago. This ...
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New Midwest Cover Crops Guide Available to Help Growers Improve Water Quality, Soil Quality
Guide that can help growers learn how to improve the state’s water quality while improving soil health, ... production can not only improve soil health, it can also benefit the environment, increase water quality and ... Tracy Turner OTTAWA, Ohio – Soil researchers and educators from Ohio State University’s College of ...
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Agricultural Conservation Links
https://epn.osu.edu/getting-started/helpful-links/land-use-agricultural-conservation-links
regulatory and incentive-based state water quality, agricultural, urban, and other conservation programs) ... data, information sources: national, state, local) USDA Farm Service Agency (aerial photos, ... USDA Extension Program site (links to state and county Extension offices; Extension; 4-H) Ohio State ...
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Water: the next generation’s oil?
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/water-the-next-generation%E2%80%99s-oil
water quality, here are a few initiatives underway at Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and ... Environmental Sciences. Greg LaBarge, an Agronomic Field Specialist for the college’s Ohio State University ... adopted by farms apply the 4 “R’s” as recommended by Ohio, Michigan and Indiana universities regarding ...
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More Than 10,000 Ohio Farmers Have Received Water Quality Training
nutrient runoff and improve water quality throughout the state. And more training opportunities are ... in the problem and how they can help improve water quality through the techniques and practices we ... lost to runoff impact production and water quality at the same time, so it’s in everyone’s interest to ...
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Home
https://field2faucet.osu.edu/home
Ensuring safe drinking water while keeping farms productive and profitable Ohio State researchers ... and their partners seek to improve lake water quality and support healthy ecosystems so that people ... can drink the water, the lake can sustain recreation and fishing, and the ecosystem can endure short- ...
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Farmers: What Smoke Test Can Teach About Fields, Yields and Water
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/farmers-what-smoke-test-can-teach-about-fields-yields-and-water
Understanding that flow can improve both a farm’s bottom line and water quality, Custer said. Steps can be taken ... a co-organizer of the event and an educator with Ohio State University Extension. OSU Extension is CFAES’s ... outreach arm. Generally, macropores improve a soil by helping water soak in and crop roots go deeper. But ...
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Panel to Discuss Manure Storage Options, Benefits to Farms and Water
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/panel-discuss-manure-storage-options-benefits-farms-and-water
them will take the stage at this year’s Manure Science Review. Co-hosted by Ohio State University’s ... from one farm to another,” he said. “Hopefully those whose livelihoods revolve around these issues will ... transitioned his farm to organic methods; and Greg Steffen, whose long-time family farm near Kidron milks about ...
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Water Quality Wednesdays Continue March 3rd
work for your situation. Join The Ohio State University Extension-Water Quality Team and guest speakers ... Water quality concerns continue to be at the forefront of environmental-impact discussions across ... many industries. Since agriculture occupies much of the land area in Ohio, adapting farming operations ...