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Food security? ‘We have to have water security first or there is no food’
Carolina State University soil science professor, who spoke on “Can We Protect Water Quality? The ... named leader of CFAES in 2012 and was Penn State’s agriculture dean before that. “I used to start ... presentation, “Update on Research Activities in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences,” ...
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Supporting Ohio’s $786 million grape and wine industry …
manager of OARDC’s Ashtabula Agricultural Research Station in Kingsville in northeast Ohio. He holds ... Department of Entomology. She’s studying integrated pest management of grapes and muck soil vegetables. She ... venture for managing OARDC’s Ashtabula Agricultural Research Station,” said Ken Scaife, assistant to the ...
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Secrest Arboretum
https://oardc.osu.edu/facility/secrest-arboretum
Although it is a research arboretum, over 7,000 people visit the gardens annually. The Ohio Nursery, ... landscaping industry and master gardeners depend on the Arboretum for training programs and evaluation of new ...
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Meet the hoopers: OARDC scientists spur high-tunnel use, a low-cost way to grow more food
Urban Farms of Central Ohio, part of the hunger-fighting Mid-Ohio Foodbank. “We’ve been able to market ... are especially suited to small and urban farms. High tunnels protect crops from rain, snow, wind, cold ...
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Workshop: How to Grow Bigger, Better Strawberries and Get Them Earlier
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/workshop-how-grow-bigger-better-strawberries-and-get-them-earlier
Small-fruit researchers with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The ... September and grown over the winter using plastic to keep the soil warm and suppress weed growth, according ... to Brad Bergefurd, a horticulturist with Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio Agricultural ...
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Study: Fat in avocado helps body absorb, convert vitamin A nutrients
the World Health Organization says. Vitamin A deficiency raises infection risks and is the leading ... French National Institute for Agricultural Research. To contact the scientists: Rachel Kopec at ...
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Two OARDC scientists contribute to National Climate Assessment
U.S. National Climate Assessment. Brent Sohngen, professor in the Department of Agricultural ... co-authored the report’s forestry chapter. Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science in ... agriculture, human health, land and water resources, energy supply and use, and ecosystems and biodiversity. ...
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Autumn Discovery Day
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/autumn-discovery-day
at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, 1680 Madison Ave. in Wooster, about 60 ... Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. The event is the arboretum’s second-biggest fundraiser of the year, ... time to do that, Snyder said. While the top of a plant may have started going dormant, the soil is ...
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CFAES facility in southern Ohio celebrates 25 years
scientists conducting world-class agricultural research, and area entrepreneurs have thrived thanks to ... and specialists working in the center’s areas of focus: aquaculture, business, horticulture, and soil ...
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OARDC organic farming program has new interim leader; ‘period of reinvention’ ahead
years ago, is replacing former OFFER director Brian McSpadden Gardener, who left for a job in the ... agricultural administration and director of the college’s Wooster campus, which includes OARDC. “He’s ...