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FIC Course Information
https://bioproducts.osu.edu/fic-course-information
canned foods. Total Quality Management Snack Food Association Provides an understanding of how snacks are ... quality food. Great course for new managers and employees. Ice Cream Manufacturing From safety to ...
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Severe Weather Awareness Week
Dr. Dee Jepsen—State Agricultural Safety and Health Leader: Severe Weather Awareness Week is March 20-26, 2016. Being prepared is something for every individual and every community to practice, especially when spring weather patterns have potential to cat ...
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Urban Agriculture
https://southcenters.osu.edu/urbanag
local Extension research-based programming, as well as the literature, urban agriculture resources, ...
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Is your Emergency Action Plan up to Date?
Kent McGuire – OSU Ag Safety and Health Coordinator: As we continue to plan for busy spring season, it is a great time to establish or review Emergency Action Plans. Whether it’s a structure fire, traumatic farm injury, or natural disaster being prepared ...
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Ohio State Team Promotes Nature-based 'ECO-farming'
https://southcenters.osu.edu/news/ohio-state-team-promotes-nature-based-eco-farming-0
PIKETON, Ohio – A team of scientists and educators from Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences now spells farming with three extra letters. The group studies, demonstrates and teaches about what it calls “ECO-far ...
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Borlaug Fellows Gain Inspiration, Insight During World Food Prize
https://southcenters.osu.edu/news/borlaug-fellows-gain-inspiration-insight-during-world-food-prize
Every year the World Food Prize recognizes the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug created the prize, whi ...
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Power Farming: Ohio State Tests Bioenergy Crops for Fuel, Combustion
https://southcenters.osu.edu/news/power-farming-ohio-state-tests-bioenergy-crops-for-fuel-combustion
All across Ohio, a variety of grasses, shrubs and trees are being grown and analyzed to see how well they can produce something that is always in high demand: energy. Read More ...
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OSU Extension Conference Offers Education and Support for Conservation Tillage, March 5-6
When it became apparent that the dry spell many Ohio growers were experiencing last year would become the worst drought in 50 years, David Brandt wasn’t worried about how well corn and soybeans on his 1,150-acre farm would fare. Read More ...
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OSU Experts: Adapting Agriculture to Extreme Weather
https://southcenters.osu.edu/news/osu-experts-adapting-agriculture-extreme-weather
From the record drought that covered much of the nation last year to Superstorm Sandy that caused an estimated $50 billion or more in damage in the Northeast and Midwest, extreme weather events plagued growers nationwide throughout 2012 and experts antici ...
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Fall Agritourism Preparedness
Cora Carter – OSU Ag Safety and Health Graduate Assistant: This festive fall season comes with a variety of safety concerns for owners of corn mazes, pumpkin patches, haunted houses, and other fall agritourism sites. A safe season is the goal for every ag ...