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Deliver Your Hay to the Market Safely
https://agsafety.osu.edu/safety-through-seasons-2022/deliver-your-hay-market-safely
purdin.19@osu.edu. This column is provided by the OSU Extension Agricultural Safety and Health Team. ...
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Summer Days Ahead: Don’t Ignore Heat Stress!
Mary Ann Rose, Pesticide Safety Education With the arrival of summer, the risk of heat stress ... increases. Farmers have an elevated risk of heat stress for obvious reasons – working outdoors. Activities that ... require protective clothing, such as pesticide application, further increase the risk. Heat stress is ...
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The Thriving Farmer – Information to Help Farmers and Their Families Make Healthful Choices
sandwiches made with whole grain bread may help lower your risks of health problems, such as heart disease, ... at 740-942-8823 or maiorano.2@osu.edu. This column is provided by the OSU Extension Agricultural ...
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Research Resources
https://oardc.osu.edu/resources
million to explore the biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban soils $0.6 million to develop ... agriculture. Research activities are emerging from departmental and college silos and occurring within ... challenges will surely be found. The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) is the ...
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Ohio AgrAbility in Action: Ohio AgrAbility Educational Workshops
how arthritis impacts our agricultural communities and effective ways to manage on the farm Gardening ... and Urban Ag – Learn creative solutions to continue working in your garden or small fam with ... difficult? Ohio AgrAbility Program (OAP) is one of the “Best Kept Secrets in Ohio agriculture”, and the OAP ...
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Manure Pit Safety
https://agsafety.osu.edu/newsletter/ag-safety-stat/safety-through-seasons-2021/manure-pit-safety
communication helps reduce the risk and keep everyone safe. Manure pit gases are the biggest concern for health ... storage, can be toxic to both humans and livestock. Hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) gas is the biggest risk and ... are present provides a visual warning and helps alert people to the risks in the area. Producers and ...
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History
https://oardc.osu.edu/about/history
given an amount of land that they could sell to provide funds for establishment of an Agricultural and ... 1870, The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College was established on the "Neil Farm" north of ... emphasis was toward a liberal arts education rather than agricultural and mechanical arts. This alienated ...
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Sharing Garden Smiles...by the Numbers...
https://mastergardener.osu.edu/news/sharing-garden-smilesby-numbers
One way the Fairfield County Master Gardeners found to stay connected during the COVID-19 STAY AT ... HOME ORDER was by sharing SMILES from our gardens during the past 60 days. The SMILE Challenge was ... posted to the Fairfield County Master Gardener Facebook Group page on March 21, 2020. The MGV ...
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Online tool that helps protect water is now being made even better
Maintaining soil phosphorus levels in accordance with the research-based Tri-State Fertility ... Recommendations helps lower the concentration of phosphorus in agricultural runoff, according to ongoing research ... soil can be curtailed by reducing soil disturbances such as tillage and by maintaining field cover ...
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When the Rain Won’t Let Up
://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/kids-family/farm-stress-fact-sheets-stress-management-for-farmers-ranchers. Donham, K. J., & Thelin, A. (2016). Agricultural Medicine: Rural Occupational and Environmental ...