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Ohio State Economist: Taxing Phosphorus Could Reduce Risk of Algal Blooms
blooms that stem from phosphorus, an Ohio State University environmental economist suggests an economic ... and Ohio State University Extension, and he leads Ohio State’s Environmental Policy Initiative. In ... quality as the cost of phosphorus has increased. “As a result of higher phosphorus prices in 2005 to 2010, ...
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Ohio State University Agronomists Offer Updated Fertility Recommendation Calculator for Field Crop Growers
the tool offers include: Phosphorus soil test results using Bray P1 or Mehlich III that can be entered ... Tracy Turner COLUMBUS, Ohio – Agronomists from Ohio State University’s College of Food, ... Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences have updated a fertility recommendation calculator designed to provide ...
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Western Agronomy Field Day
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/events/western-agronomy-field-day
phosphorus and updating Ohio’s Phosphorus Risk Index. Precision Planting and SmartFirmers: Dr. Alex Lindsey, ... SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio — Researchers from The Ohio State University (OSU) will be showcasing ... domestic and international crop production. Weed Challenges this Season: Dr. Mark Loux, Ohio State weed ...
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Understanding How Soil Test Phosphorus Impacts Water Quality
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0111
in Ohio identify a procedure for assessing P loss risk which defines the high-risk P loss category at ... initial STP value, it will take 5 to 44 years to return to 100 ppm STP. Under Ohio conditions, a similar ... are not widespread. A summary of 2020 soil test results for Ohio finds that approximately 10% of soil ...
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Ohio State Making Strides in Working to Improve Water Quality
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-state-making-strides-in-working-improve-water-quality
Signature Program, and already the initiative is making strides in working to improve water quality in Ohio ... profits. Already, the initiative has resulted in 82 percent of OSU Extension clientele using soil testing, ... Tracy Turner COLUMBUS, Ohio – It’s been one year since the College of Food, Agricultural, and ...
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How and why to keep phosphorus on no-till fields
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/how-and-why-keep-phosphorus-no-till-fields
particles, so that phosphorus is not as likely to be available to algae downstream. As a result, some experts ... said. Even if not tilling a field might put it at risk of soluble phosphorus running off that field, ... incorporated into the soil, he said. “And we know that sets us up for greater risk of phosphorus running off ...
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Sept. 30 Webinar to Examine Economics of Controlling Algal Blooms
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/sept-30-webinar-examine-economics-controlling-algal-blooms
Nicole Pierron-Rasul COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Economists will discuss the economics behind water pollution ... years of efforts to reduce phosphorus, our traditional conservation approaches appear not to be working ... as well as we wish,” said Brent Sohngen, professor of environmental economics with Ohio State ...
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CFAES Researcher Part of New Project Studying Conservation Incentives, Farming Practices
quality. Robyn Wilson, associate professor of risk analysis and decision science in Ohio State’s School of ... Kurt Knebusch COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio State University researcher is part of a new $750,000 ... Initiative (GLRI) are meeting one of their goals: to get more farmers to adopt measures that preserve water ...
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Tax or Subsidy? How to Reduce Lake Erie Phosphorus Sources
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/tax-or-subsidy-how-reduce-lake-erie-phosphorus-sources
Ohio State University shows the least costly way to cut nearly half the phosphorus seeping into Lake ... up to $20 million annually, a phosphorus subsidy to Ohio farmers or a phosphorus tax would be far ... option.” The money generated from a tax on phosphorus, which would be paid by farmers, could be partially ...
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Phosphorus (P) Nutrient Use in Ohio
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0143
Systems, The Ohio State University Soil available and added phosphorus (P) nutrient impacts Ohio’s crop ... for 1987–2016, with no immediate plans to update. To provide a recent picture of Ohio P nutrient use, ... occurring. Trends in median soil test results for Ohio counties from 1993 to 2015 are shown in Figure ...