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Ohio State Receives $2.6M NSF Grant for Unique Research in Africa's Threatened Sahel Region
agriculturally dependent region is threatened with desertification and soil degradation that reduce crop productivity and ... also expect this research could lead to a new way to remediate polluted soils by taking advantage of ... March 22, 2011 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and ...
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Researchers Working to Improve Crop Production in India
Ohio State University soil scientist with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, is the ... recipient of a two-year $60,000 U.S.-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative (AKI) grant focusing on ... "On-Farm Water Management for Rain-Fed Agriculture on Benchmark Watersheds in Five Diverse Eco-Regions of ...
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Work in Plant Disease Biocontrol Earns OARDC Researcher Spot in World Class South Korean Program
Agricultural Research and Development Center is providing his expertise in biological control of plant diseases ... participation in that nation's World Class University Program. Brian McSpadden Gardener is collaborating ... to bioenvironmental control. In addition to the research, McSpadden Gardener is teaching ...
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Growing season: OARDC's organic farming program gets a shot in the arm
of Food and Agriculture funds the project. Topics also included studies on soil-building cover crops, ... research and outreach efforts will once again be funded,” said OFFER Director Brian McSpadden Gardener. The ... Agriculture’s National Organic Program, according to the agency’s 2012 Census of Agriculture. The total ranks ...
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Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/conservation-tillage-and-technology-conference
Building and maintaining healthy soils not only leads to profitable farming and improved water ... Practices for the Future of Conservation Agriculture and Soil Health,” a goal of the event, Reeder said, is ... regional soil health team leader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation ...
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Clever Rabbits or Not, Parking Lot Farm Is Seeing Results
June 18, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Even a garden in the middle of a parking lot can have a problem with ... garden on an old asphalt parking lot in Wooster in northeast Ohio. “I actually saw one leave (the ... garden),” Kovach said. “It pushed its way right out. They were using the wire on the gate as a trap door.” ...
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Plant-Associated Bacteria Can Improve Crop Health in Acidic Soils
June 4, 2009 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Common plant-associated bacteria, best known to suppress soil ... -borne root diseases, now have been found to boost corn yields in low-pH soils. The discovery made by Ohio ... improving plant health in acidic soil conditions. "No one in the past has identified such ...
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"Learning Garden" Teaches Landscaping Skills
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/learning-garden-teaches-landscaping-skills
May 1, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ohio- Anyone seeking basic landscape garden design skills or wanting a new ... horticulture students are designing a "learning garden," an outdoor laboratory for learning about ... constructed landscapes commonly found in the urban Midwest, around Howlett Hall on the College of Food, ...
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High-tech Rain Garden Nets OARDC Innovator Award
Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC). The award honors innovation and entrepreneurship by OARDC ... honored for developing and patenting a biphasic bioretention system, an advanced type of rain garden, for ... runoff costs cities in Ohio and elsewhere billions of dollars a year to manage. “The biphasic rain garden ...
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Fight Back Against Emerald Ash Borer; Inventory Community Trees
County will host a Tree Inventory Program on Sept. 16 to walk master gardeners, local legislators, state ... emerald ash borer on the urban forest," said Cindy Meyer, an Ohio State University Extension educator ... in agriculture and natural resources. "This data helps communities anticipate cost, work force, ...