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CFAES Research Conference Will Focus on Water Quality
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WOOSTER, Ohio — The 2018 Annual Research Conference of The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) will dive into water, including Lake Erie and agriculture’s role in protecting it. The event, set for Frid ...
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Low Milk Prices Sending Some Dairy Farmers Out of Business
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Nervous about the dramatic drop in milk prices, Ohio’s dairy farmers are leaving the business at a higher than usual rate. Every year, some farmers retire and give up their dairy licenses, but there’s been an uptick recently. In March 2018, there were 2,2 ...
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Bugged by Bugs in Your Home This Winter? Take Steps in Spring and Summer
https://agnr.osu.edu/news/bugged-bugs-your-home-winter-take-steps-spring-and-summer
If you spent the winter finding multicolored Asian lady beetles on your lampshades, brown marmorated stink bugs on your toaster, there’s bad news and good news. The bad news, say experts at The Ohio State University, is that Ohio’s colder than normal wint ...
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Breeding for Faster-Growing Bluegills and Yellow Perch
https://agnr.osu.edu/news/breeding-faster-growing-bluegills-and-yellow-perch
Inside cool water-filled tanks in southern Ohio, the laws of nature are being defied: Male yellow perch mate with other male yellow perch; female bluegills with other female bluegills. This might make you wonder, unless, of course, your profession is sele ...
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April 25 Forum to Focus on Increasing Ohio Farm to School Opportunities
https://agnr.osu.edu/news/april-25-forum-focus-increasing-ohio-farm-school-opportunities
The goal is simple: to get more local foods to more Ohio students in more Ohio schools. The question of how to do so is slightly more complicated. Experts with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) at The Ohio State Univers ...
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Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels Prompt More Plant Growth, But Fewer Nutrients
https://agnr.osu.edu/news/higher-carbon-dioxide-levels-prompt-more-plant-growth-fewer-nutrients
It might seem there’s an upside to the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Plants are growing faster. However, in many species of plants, quantity is not quality. Most plants are growing faster, but they have on average more starch, less p ...
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Soybean Tariffs Expected to Hit Ohio Farmers Hard
https://agnr.osu.edu/news/soybean-tariffs-expected-hit-ohio-farmers-hard
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Soybeans have now been added to the list of American products slated for tariffs in China, a move expected to hurt Ohio farmers in a state whose main crop and agricultural export is soybeans. China is Ohio’s most important soybean export ...
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News Tips and Events for the Week of March 26
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Tip 1: Americans Projected to Eat More Protein this Year. A Boost for Livestock Producers? The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that consumers will eat 222.2 pounds of red meat and poultry in 2018, more than ever before. The closest consumers came to ...
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Overdose Rate Tied to Jobless Rate
https://agnr.osu.edu/news/overdose-rate-tied-jobless-rate
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The decline in Ohio’s manufacturing jobs, especially since 2000, occurred about the same time overdose deaths began to rise so sharply in the state. Researchers at The Ohio State University have connected unemployment and underemployment ...
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CFAES Report Focuses on Ways to Increase Rural Access to Broadband Internet in Ohio
https://agnr.osu.edu/news/cfaes-report-focuses-ways-increase-rural-access-broadband-internet-ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio — While the majority of Ohioans have access to fast, reliable broadband internet service in their homes, some 1 million others don’t, says an analyst with the C. William Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy at The Ohio State University. “Thi ...