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Trials Help Poinsettias Get New Look for the Holidays
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/trials-help-poinsettias-get-new-look-holidays
December 21, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio ââ¬â Most of them are red and heart-shaped. But others are white, pink, red-orangey, peachy, lime or red with white speckles, and look more like a rose, a carnation or a holly leaf. Poinsettias, by any other color, p ...
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Thumbs-Up for Crops Despite Performance Challenges
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/thumbs-crops-despite-performance-challenges
October 8, 2003 COLUMBUS, Ohio â With late plantings, excessive rainfall, a myriad of insects and diseases and poor plant development, it seemed Ohio corn and soybean growers would be throwing in the towel on another disappointing season. But to the sur ...
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Top of the Class: Faculty Member Gains National Recognition for Excellence in Teaching
November 10, 2008 Editor: For a print-quality photo of Susie Whittington, contact Martha Filipic at filipic.3@cfes.osu.edu. COLUMBUS, Ohio-- A faculty member in Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences has bee ...
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The Chances for Timely Planting Diminish
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/chances-timely-planting-diminish
May 9, 2002 COLUMBUS, Ohio- With soggy fields from persistent wet weather plaguing Ohio corn and soybean growers and more rain forecasted, timely planting appears to be getting further out of reach. But Ohio State University Extension agronomists say a go ...
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Three Receive Research Awards at April 23 OARDC Annual Conference
April 24, 2002 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Three Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center scientists were honored for their achievements at the centerâs 2002 annual conference yesterday (April 23) in Wooster. Parwinder Grewal of the Department of Entomolog ...
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Survey Shows Higher Levels of Concern on Food, Agricultural, Environmental Issues
September 7, 2006 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Ohioans' level of concern regarding food and agricultural issues has climbed in the past two years, according to a biannual survey conducted by Ohio State University researchers. The "Ohio Survey of Food, Agric ...
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'Sustainability, Resilience, Adaptation': Students in New Ohio State Course to Plan Future of NE Ohio Family Farm
March 7, 2008 WOOSTER, Ohio ââ¬â Students will help chart the future of a nearly 200-year-old Ohio family farm in a new course at Ohio State University. What they learn can then in turn help other family farms as well. ââ¬ÅPlanning and Design of ...
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Study: Spring Floods Good for Handsome Wood Duck
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/study-spring-floods-good-handsome-wood-duck
May 21, 2007 COLUMBUS, Ohio ââ¬â Springtime flooding by rivers and streams ââ¬â normal and natural but limited now by dams and other flood-control measures ââ¬â helps keep nesting wood ducks safe and lets them successfully raise more young, sa ...
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Study Looks at Wild Birds' Impact on E. coli Spread on Farms
September 20, 2007 WOOSTER, Ohio ââ¬â Ohio State University scientists are using a $1 million U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant to study the relationship between wild birds and E. coli contamination on farms, in an effort to gather crucial d ...
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Study Examines Rural Low-Income Families in Light of Welfare Reform
May 23, 2002 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- As the government debates the details of welfare reform, a national research project sheds light on how rural low-income families fare in the world of work. Sharon Seiling, associate professor of consumer and textile sciences ...