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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. SENR Soil Scientist Working to Make P-Index More Functional

    https://senr.osu.edu/news/senr-soil-scientist-working-make-p-index-more-functional

    Phosphorus Index Assessment Procedure, commonly called the Phosphorus Risk Index.  The research project is ... Dr. Dayton is coordinating research on Ohio's USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service ... funded by a USDA Conservation Innovation Grant with additional funding from Ohio farm organizations, ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

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

    https://senr.osu.edu/news/ohio-state-experts-offer-tips-best-management-practices-keep-phosphorus-field-improve-water

    Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index to be more useful in predicting the risk of phosphorus moving off farm ... soil’s hydrologic class all can impact edge-of-field losses of phosphorus. The USDA-NRCS Ohio Phosphorus ... Risk Index provides a risk of loss index and should be used as part of the development of a nutrient ...

  7. HCS Seminar Series, Columbus

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

  8. Event to Look at Farming, Water Quality, Ohio’s Efforts for Both

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/event-look-farming-water-quality-ohio%E2%80%99s-efforts-for-both

    watershed. The findings will be used to update the Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index, which farmers use to figure ... Lake Erie and other Ohio water bodies in recent years. Phosphorus runoff from fertilizer and manure can ... Initiatives Guide Farmers’ Solutions,” will feature these speakers: Cathann A. Kress, who became Ohio State’s ...

  9. 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

    revise Ohio’s Phosphorus Risk Index. Farmers use the index to plan their fertilizer applications. Steve ... are the focus of an Oct. 14 program called “Ohio’s Water Resources and Citizens at Risk: Ag-related ... Kurt Knebusch COLUMBUS, Ohio-- In the wake of this summer’s Toledo water crisis, Jeff Reutter ...

  10. Ohio State Report Evaluates Options for Reducing Lake Erie’s Harmful Algal Blooms

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-state-report-evaluates-options-for-reducing-lake-erie%E2%80%99s-harmful-algal-blooms

    phosphorus, which includes dissolved reactive phosphorus, lower oxygen levels in the lake and result in the ... reduction goals for dissolved reactive phosphorus. These results point to the need to further increase ... a higher potential of reducing phosphorus runoff. While this approach will result in accelerated gains in ...

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