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Produce Growers: Review, Comment on Proposed Food Safety Rule
https://cfaes.osu.edu/node/918
may be the biggest challenge for Ohio's growers. The proposed rule states that water used for ... Martha Filipic MEDINA, Ohio-- Ohio's produce farmers may want to take some time to review the ... Ohio State University Extension. After finalization, the rule will take effect for some operators ...
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Oct. 14: How to Stop Algal Blooms, Keep Drinking Water Safe
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/oct-14-how-stop-algal-blooms-keep-drinking-water-safe
the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, on Ohio State’s Columbus ... AgriBusiness Association, the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, and Ohio State’s Office of Energy and Environment ... and Ohio Water Resources Center are also providing support for the event. Protecting and improving ...
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Attracting more farmers to participate in water quality efforts
https://senr.osu.edu/news/attracting-more-farmers-participate-water-quality-efforts
actually improve water quality in Lake Erie, said Robyn Wilson, a professor in the College of Food, ... scientist at The Ohio State University. Many farmers question whether the conservation measures they are ... financial resources than larger farms have, Wilson said. “We’ve been spending a lot of time and money ...
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Jay Martin to Lead Field to Faucet and Global Water Initiative
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/jay-martin-lead-field-faucet-and-global-water-initiative
Field to Faucet, a water quality program launched by The Ohio State University to ensure safe drinking ... Faucet,” McPheron said. “Solving the water quality problem in Ohio will take many minds. Jay has the ... Martin is an ecological engineer in Ohio State’s Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological ...
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Conservation Tillage Conference March 2-3 Delivers Value for Crop Advisers, Farmers
loss. “The 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 ... an Ohio State University Extension agronomy field specialist and coordinator of the university’s ...
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Faculty quoted in The Christian Science Monitor
https://senr.osu.edu/news/faculty-quoted-christian-science-monitor
practices to reduce nutrient loss and improve water quality, however they lack confidence in the recommended ... efforts to understand and address Lake Erie water quality. Dr. Wilson’s research on farmer decision ... one of several “wetlaculture” experiments in Ohio and Florida that his lab is running. Read the full ...
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We Sustain Life
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/we-sustain-life
components, and water quality. One health – Integration of human health, animal health, and environmental ... cornerstone college of The Ohio State University, has honored its legacy as a land-grant institution for ... news releases Read our news releases Connect with the news team Attend the Farm Science Review Learn ...
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Study: Most Farmers Willing to Take More Steps to Improve Water Quality
https://senr.osu.edu/news/study-most-farmers-willing-take-more-steps-improve-water-quality
if they feel like the action will both benefit their farms as well as water quality. That’s ... not taking action can impact their farm profits as well as how it will impact local water quality ... quality locally and regionally.” Her findings are from recent Ohio State surveys of Maumee watershed ...
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Study: Most Farmers Willing to Take More Steps to Improve Water Quality
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/study-most-farmers-willing-take-more-steps-improve-water-quality
feel like the action will both benefit their farms as well as water quality. That’s according to new ... impact their farm profits as well as how it will impact local water quality,” Wilson said. “Despite some ... profits on their farm, how it negatively impacts water quality locally and regionally, and how nutrient ...
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Ohio State Economist: Taxing Phosphorus Could Reduce Risk of Algal Blooms
phosphorus in the watershed doesn’t appear to be one of them. Improvements in water quality in the 1980s and ... Center for Water Quality Research at northwest Ohio’s Heidelberg University and study how different ... to reduce erosion and improve both water and soil quality. Conservation tillage, including no-till ...