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Early Appearance of Twospotted Spider Mites Could Damage Ohio Soybean Crops
June 18, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio – The early and prolonged period of dry, hot days Ohio has experienced so far this spring is causing an early appearance of the twospotted spider mite, a dangerous pest that can cause severe damage to soybean crops, including t ...
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Economist to Address Reducing Nutrient Runoff in Ohio Waters
June 20, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio – Reducing nutrient runoff in Ohio waters may take more creative thinking than just instituting water conservation programs, according to an Ohio State University expert. Farmers and producers may have to get by with fewer nut ...
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Ohio State Expert: June Good Time to Establish High Reproduction Standards for Heifers
June 20, 2012 PIKETON, Ohio – Livestock farmers, who are now in the midst of breeding season, may find that selling heifers that aren’t meeting breeding expectations may make better financial sense than keeping an animal that isn’t achieving satisfactory ...
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Chow Line: Why green beans aren't really 'beans' (6/22/12)
June 22, 2012 My whole family likes green beans, so we eat them a lot. I recently looked at the Dietary Guidelines and saw we can’t count green beans as beans. Why not? It’s true. Green beans don’t count in the “beans and peas” category in the Dietary Gui ...
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Professor to be Named as Fellow of Institute of Food Technologists
June 22, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- V.M. (Bala) Balasubramaniam, professor of food safety engineering at Ohio State University, will be named a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists at its annual meeting in Las Vegas on June 25. "This is the large ...
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OSU Expert: Strong Demand for Wheat Straw Leaves Farmers Debating Whether to Sell or Leave It for Nutrients and Soil Organic Matter
June 26, 2012 FINDLAY, Ohio – Wheat growers may have lower yields this year thanks to extreme weather and planting delays, however a strong demand for quality wheat straw may offset the loss of income from grain, an Ohio State University Extension educato ...
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Hot, Dry Weather Could Make it Harder for Growers to Control Weeds
June 26, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio – While the extended periods of hot, dry weather Ohio has experienced in recent weeks may mean that weeds aren’t growing as fast as they would in more moist conditions, the weather can still have an adverse effect on weed mana ...
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Media Advisory: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Visiting Campus June 28
June 27, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will meet with Ohio State University researchers from the Center for Advanced Functional Foods Research and Entrepreneurship (CAFFRE) and Department of Food Science and Technology on ...
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Chow Line: Estimate portion sizes with ‘handy’ tool (6/29/12)
June 29, 2012 I want to make sure I’m eating the proper portion sizes, but I don’t want to weigh and measure everything I eat. Is there an easy way to estimate servings of different foods? Actually, there are a number of ways to do this, and one is right ...
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Ohio Sheep Day Day July 14
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-sheep-day-day-july-14
June 29, 2012 VAN WERT, Ohio-- Buckeye Acres Farm will host the 2012 Ohio Sheep Day, which offers visitors the opportunity to see a successful sheep farming operation and receive ideas about nutrition, management systems and other areas of sheep productio ...