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Agriculture and Natural Resources
https://fairfield.osu.edu/program-areas/agriculture-and-natural-resources
advancement with environmental sustainability. Our ANR professionals help producers develop and expand ... information, applied research, and access to land-grant university knowledge to address local issues and needs. ... cattle, dairy, swine, sheep and goats, but also horses, prawns, hops, Christmas trees, fruit, vegetables ...
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Planting When the Soil Temperatures are Right!!
https://fairfield.osu.edu/news/planting-when-soil-temperatures-are-right
be planting early spring crops in the garden but what does the soil thermometer tell us? If you have ... never thought about the use of the soil thermometer you should! Have you ever had crops that you ... planted in your garden that just “set” there and did not take off? Perhaps you planted them in wet soils ...
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Study: Spreading gypsum on farms can help keep water clean, not green
plants. Gypsum also provides calcium and sulfur, nutrients that can improve the soil and crop yields. ... Gypsum, which has roots in the past as a farm soil treatment, also may have a bright future, and ... into a three-year study of gypsum’s benefits on farms, including to soil quality, crop yields and ...
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Water Quality
https://oardc.osu.edu/impacts/water-quality
fertilizer in the soil where crops can use it and to apply only what is needed for growing crops. ... algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other bodies of water in recent years. Researchers at The Ohio State ...
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Field to Faucet making strides in improving Ohio’s water quality
address the water quality problem and accelerate our research to reduce the amount of nutrients coming off ... nutrient runoff in side-by-side fields, each under different management systems. To contact the source: Jay ... initiative includes research, training and education, all designed to ensure safe drinking water while ...
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Master Gardener Volunteers
https://fairfield.osu.edu/program-areas/master-gardener-volunteers
Revitalization Project, the Sherman House Gardens, Wagnalls Library Educational Garden and our newest project ... sessions included teachings about Invasive Plants, Soils, Botany, Lawn Care, Houseplants, Pesticides, Plant ... Pathology, Weed Control, Pollinators, Entomology, Pest Management, Wildlife Control, Tree Identification, ...
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Fertilizer & Pesticide REcertification Sessions are Set
https://fairfield.osu.edu/news/fertilizer-pesticide-recertification-sessions-are-set
and Fertilizer applicators. In addition to the 3 hours of credit required for REcertification of ... Private Pesticide Applicators, growers who also have a Fertilizer Certification must have one additional ... time for both Pesticide and Fertilizer may acquire those hours on a single date in 4 consecutive hours, ...
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Visit Us
https://oardc.osu.edu/about/visit-us
home to OARDC's CFAES Wooster Campus and our world-renowned researchers. The CFAES Wooster campus ... As the research arm of Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and ... Environmental Sciences (CFAES), the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) is dedicated to ...
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CFAES Research Community
https://oardc.osu.edu/https%3A/cfaes.osu.edu/cfaes-research-community
CFAES Research Community, The message from Dr. Morley Stone sent out on March 15 stating that ... “PI’s should immediately begin preparing for all on-campus research to be restricted to essential ... activities only as soon as possible” requires additional context for CFAES research. Specifically, what ...
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Signature Areas
https://oardc.osu.edu/signature-areas
greatest strengths. By focusing on areas of research excellence and strategic importance, OARDC has ... for energy and materials increases, research and industry partnerships come together in this signature ...