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Strawberries, Robots and Taste Tests Featured at Berry Field Night
what sells a strawberry, field night attendees can participate in a blind taste test of 18 varieties of ... University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Since 1999, Bergefurd has researched strawberry ... production, and his current study, which is funded through a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, examines ...
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9 Farm Strategies for a Profitable 2017
https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/9-farm-strategies-profitable-2017
they will need to tighten their belts and slash expenses, said Barry Ward, agricultural economist at ... Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Ward’s nine strategies: Reevaluate crop production inputs such as ... fertilizer, if soil tests show there’s enough in the ground for the coming crop. Review and adjust nitrogen ...
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Report: USDA Awards $4.8 Million to Support Critical Agricultural Research and Extension Projects
From the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Daily Bulletin: WASHINGTON, D.C. June 7, ... 2017 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture ... important problems in U.S. agriculture. The funding is made possible through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food ...
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More Than 10,000 Ohio Farmers Have Received Water Quality Training
Ohio’s new agricultural fertilization law. Passed in 2014, the legislation requires individuals who apply ... educators with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University ... and is offered in partnership with the Ohio Department of Agriculture. The training provides ...
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$700,000 gift to Ohio State CFAES Helps Create Food Security and Sustainability Learning Community
Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences last month, creates the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Bobby Moser Food ... years as dean of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES). The ... facing food production, food policy, hunger, food safety, and sustainable agricultural practices. “This ...
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Brown Announces Nearly $500,000 Investment for OSU Ag Institute
Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food ... and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded $499,384 to The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute ... The funding comes from USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, a competitive grants program ...
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CFAES Announces New Director of Government Affairs
https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/cfaes-announces-new-director-government-affairs
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental ... national levels, he also agricultural roots from a childhood growing up on a corn, soybean and hog farm in ... Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences has touched my life from a very young age. I look forward to working ...
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Ohio State ag law professor helps farmers know their rights
(In 2016, the Rural Roles series featured 12 different voices within the agriculture industry who ... and apply it to agriculture and that’s ag law,” said Peggy Hall. From water laws to zoning laws, to ... employment and labor, “there are so many areas that apply slightly differently to agriculture,” said Hall, an ...
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Fair Flu: It's Nothing to Sneeze At
https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/fair-flu-its-nothing-sneeze
least one animal at 25 percent of county fairs tests positive. “It’s like kids at preschool. If one hog ... Clinton County Fair in Ohio, where Ohio Department of Agriculture officials discovered IAV-S and fair ...
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Produce Safety Rule to Change the Way Fresh Fruit, Vegetables Are Grown and Handled
operations, said Peggy Hall, field specialist in agricultural and resource law for Ohio State University ... Extension. OSU Extension is the outreach arm of The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural ... new rule voluntarily, she said. “A lot of these requirements are GAPs (good agricultural practices), ...