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  1. Updating Ohio's Phosphorus Risk Index Is Generating Positive Initial Results

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/updating-ohios-phosphorus-risk-index-is-generating-positive-initial-results

    update and revise the Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index, which is a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural ... the index later this year, Dayton said. An updated Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index can play an important ... result in meaningful differences in phosphorus runoff risk, thus providing guidance for management ...

  2. Revised Phosphorus Index Can Help Curb Agricultural Runoff

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/revised-phosphorus-index-can-help-curb-agricultural-runoff

    algal blooms, experts say. The revised phosphorus risk index can help Ohio farmers better work toward ... to input their farm-specific data to generate their risk of phosphorus in agricultural runoff. The ... revised index is the result of the multiyear On-Field Ohio project led by Elizabeth (Libby) Dayton, ...

  3. Ohio State Researcher to Re-write Ohio’s Phosphorus Index to Improve Water Quality

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/node/842

    Conservation Service Ohio Phosphorus (P) Risk Index to better predict the risk of phosphorus moving off farm ... phosphorus. Because the Ohio P Risk Index is used by farmers statewide in developing nutrient management plans ... update the Phosphorus Risk Index will help us determine what the next best management practices are when ...

  4. New Grant Focuses on Nutrient Management, Cleaner Lake Erie Water

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/new-grant-focuses-nutrient-management-cleaner-lake-erie-water

    phosphorus index and other water quality risk tools, in order to develop more user-friendly means for growers ... nitrogen and phosphorus that can affect the lake’s water quality downstream, said Greg LaBarge, Ohio State ... plans for their farms, including the Phosphorus Index calculation, which helps them identify fields with ...

  5. Below-average harmful algal bloom predicted for western Lake Erie

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/below-average-harmful-algal-bloom-predicted-for-western-lake-erie

    index. NOAA will issue a seasonal forecast update in late July based on observed rainfall in the basin. ... 3.5, with a potential range of 2-4 on the severity index — whereas last year’s bloom was measured at ... a 6. The index is based on the bloom’s biomass — the amount of algae — during the peak 30 days of the ...

  6. New Ohio State Research Shows Phosphorus Levels in Ohio Soils Trending Downward

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/new-ohio-state-research-shows-phosphorus-levels-in-ohio-soils-trending-downward

    phosphorus levels. Less phosphorus in the soil should result in reduced phosphorus runoff risk,” Dayton said. ... COLUMBUS, Ohio — Agricultural soil phosphorus levels held steady or trended downward in at least ... college’s Field to Faucet initiative, represent good news for Ohioans concerned about protecting surface ...

  7. Managing Nutrients in Agricultural Watersheds

    https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/watershed-management/managing-nutrients-agricultural-watersheds

    (SENR), will discuss the Phosphorus Risk Index, a field-based planning tool that integrates soil ... as farmers. In this webinar you will learn how the risk of phosphorus moving into water is assesed in ... properties, hydrology and agricultural management practices to assess the risk of phosphorus movement from ...

  8. On-Field Ohio: Rewriting Ohio’s Phosphorus Risk Index to Keep Nutrients and Water on Fields

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/field-ohio-rewriting-ohio%E2%80%99s-phosphorus-risk-index-keep-nutrients-and-water-fields

    U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index to be ... more useful in predicting the risk of phosphorus moving off farm fields, said Elizabeth Dayton, a soil ... Ohio farmers groups to complete the project. Phosphorus is the agricultural pollutant often implicated ...

  9. Ohio State Experts Offer Tips on Best Management Practices to Keep Phosphorus on the Field, Improve Water Quality

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-state-experts-offer-tips-best-management-practices-keep-phosphorus-the-field

    edge-of-field losses of phosphorus. The USDA-NRCS Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index provides a risk of loss index and ... project. Now in its second year, the project seeks to revise the Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index to be more ... useful in predicting the risk of phosphorus moving off farm fields. Kevin King, a research agricultural ...

  10. HCS Seminar Series, Columbus

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/events/hcs-seminar-series-columbus

    HCS Seminar Series,  “On-Field Ohio!Evaluation/Revision of the Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index using ...

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