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Meet the hoopers: OARDC scientists spur high-tunnel use, a low-cost way to grow more food
used OARDC’s high tunnel research to increase our impact by providing high-quality produce for more ... months of the year,” said Dana Hilfinger (pictured in the video and above on the right), farm manager for ... our produce earlier in the season,” she said, “generating more revenue to support our mission and ...
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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 ...
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Supporting Ohio’s $786 million grape and wine industry …
manager of OARDC’s Ashtabula Agricultural Research Station in Kingsville in northeast Ohio. He holds ... Department of Entomology. She’s studying integrated pest management of grapes and muck soil vegetables. She ... venture for managing OARDC’s Ashtabula Agricultural Research Station,” said Ken Scaife, assistant to the ...
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Muck Crops Field Day
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/muck-crops-field-day
on the station’s latest research findings on managing weeds, insects and diseases in muck-soil ... manager. The workshop will also offer growers information on several research trials being conducted at the ... Researchers with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State ...
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EPN Breakfast Club
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/epn-breakfast-club
project earn water quality credits by using best management practices to reduce nutrient runoff from their ... quality trading “is an innovative market-based approach to achieving water quality goals for nutrients ... economy by paying farmers for reducing nutrient loading,” the website says. Aimed at reducing nutrient ...
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Center for Advanced Functional Food Research & Entrepreneurship
https://oardc.osu.edu/facility/center-advanced-functional-food-research-entrepreneurship
CAFFRE The Center for Advanced Functional Food Research & Entrepreneurship (CAFFRE) mission is to ... serve as a catalyst for research and development of novel functional foods and components that will ... Program Manager Phone: 614.292.0229 E-mail: manning.318@osu.edu ...
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Organic matter in the soil on a farm: How to check it, why it matters
other things, provides soils with nutrients and microbes. It also boosts tilth and certain biochemical ... “Farmers are aware that soil organic matter is the foundation of sustainable agriculture,” says ... on, the organic matter levels in one’s soil. Should crop residue, which provides organic matter, be ...
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Workshop: How to Grow Bigger, Better Strawberries and Get Them Earlier
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/workshop-how-grow-bigger-better-strawberries-and-get-them-earlier
Small-fruit researchers with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The ... September and grown over the winter using plastic to keep the soil warm and suppress weed growth, according ... Research and Development Center (OARDC). The method results in larger, sweeter berries during an earlier ...
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Food security? ‘We have to have water security first or there is no food’
first or there is no food.” “Water is our oil. It is this generation’s oil.”—Bruce McPheron Research on ... OARDC’s 2015 Annual Research Conference, which took place in April, featured 11 speakers on ... Carolina State University soil science professor, who spoke on “Can We Protect Water Quality? The ...
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Carbon Management and Sequestration Center
https://oardc.osu.edu/facility/carbon-management-and-sequestration-center
210 Kottman Hall 2021 Coffey Road Columbus, Ohio 43210 Map to CMASC The Carbon Management and ... Sequestration Center (CMASC) at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio conducts research on the best ... methods for reducing atmospheric CO2 through sustainable land management practices. Simultaneously, CMASC ...