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Taking the Registered Tax Return Preparer Test? Here Are 2 Ways to Get Ready
May 10, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Ohio State University Extension and the OSU Income Tax School Program are offering two educational options to tax practitioners who are preparing to take the new Registered Tax Return Preparer (RTRP) competency test this year ...
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Curcumin Extract Lowers Triglycerides, Boosts Antioxidant Activity: Ohio State Study
May 10, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- A low dose of a curcumin extract from the spice turmeric can have a variety of positive health effects on healthy middle-aged individuals, according to an Ohio State University study presented at the 2012 Experimental Biology ...
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Slug Feeding Injury Rampant for Crop Growers as Near-record Warm Winter Causes the Pests to Attack Weeks Earlier than Normal
May 10, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio – Crop growers should take extra precaution to scout their fields this spring for slugs as the near-record warm winter Ohio has experienced this year has caused these plant feeders to have attacked earlier than normal and reach ...
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Wheat Growers Watching Weather in Ohio as Crops Are Ahead Two Weeks and Could Result in Strong Yields or Diseased Fields
May 11, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Wheat is already heading in some fields in northern and central Ohio and is flowering in some fields in the southern third of the state, some two weeks earlier than expected, according to an Ohio State University Extension whe ...
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Farmers to Learn New Strawberry Production Method that Creates Earlier and Longer Harvest
May 11, 2012 PIKETON, Ohio – Strawberry growers can learn about a new production method taught by an Ohio State University Extension specialist that can help them grow larger, sweeter strawberries that can be harvested in early May and well into fall. Th ...
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Ohio State Involved in Gates Foundation's $8M Grant for Childhood Malnutrition
May 14, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio -- An $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund an international team of scientists focused on finding new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent a critical global health problem: malnutrition in inf ...
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Boosting Dairy Cattle Fertility: New Technologies, Outreach Go Hand in Hand
May 16, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Increasing the reproductive efficiency of dairy cattle-- getting the highest possible number of cows pregnant in the same period of time-- has always been a challenge for this industry. Ohio State University specialists are w ...
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Crop Growers Still Have Time to Switch to Corn if Alfalfa Stands Don’t Meet Production Criteria
May 17, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio – Crop growers wondering if they should keep their alfalfa or rotate to a different crop still have time to switch to corn if they find their alfalfa stands don’t meet production criteria, an Ohio State University Extension educ ...
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Slug Feeding Injury Rampant for Crop Growers as Near-record Warm Winter Causes the Pests to Attack Weeks Earlier than Normal
May 17, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio – Crop growers should take extra precaution to scout their fields this spring for slugs as the near-record warm winter Ohio has experienced this year has caused these plant feeders to have attacked earlier than normal and reach ...
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What's the Best Way to Burn (or Not) Certain Forests Around the Great Lakes? New Program Has Science-based Answers
May 21, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Jack pines, which are common in parts of the northern Great Lakes, need fire to thrive. So does the rare and endangered Kirtland’s warbler, which nests only in burned or otherwise disturbed young jack pine stands in a handful ...