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Tick Season Has Officially Started in Ohio
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The weather’s finally warm, the sun is out, and now, so are the ticks. And this year, tick season in Ohio is expected to be pretty bad, says Glen Needham, a retired entomologist and tick expert formerly with Ohio State University Extensio ...
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Farm Bill Expected to Meet Resistance
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The first comprehensive proposal for a new federal farm bill calls for changes to payments to farmers when commodity prices dip or when they adopt environmentally friendly measures on their farms. The proposed legislation, which was draft ...
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Helping Farmers Out of Depression
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The corn was dying that summer. So were the soybeans, drying out, shriveling up. What was the point of spraying for pests? It was 1988, one of the worst episodes of drought across the United States. That was the summer a 52-year-old north ...
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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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Breeding for Faster-Growing Bluegills and Yellow Perch
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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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Bugged by Bugs in Your Home This Winter? Take Steps in Spring and Summer
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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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April 25 Forum to Focus on Increasing Ohio Farm to School Opportunities
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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
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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
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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 ...