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04/14/2011 |
Livestock Industry: May 2 Workshop in Columbus Tackles Ammonia, Nitrogen |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- This year’s Ohio State University agricultural air quality workshop will focus on the challenges and opportunities facing livestock and poultry producers when it comes to ammonia emissions and their connection with nitrogen fertilizer. It will take place Monday, May 2, at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus.
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Mauricio Espinoza |
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11/16/2012 |
Ohio State Forestry Students to Hold Christmas Tree Sale Nov. 29-Dec. 2 |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State University’s Forestry Forum, a group for students interested in forestry as a career, will hold its annual public Christmas tree sale from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2 behind the university’s Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, in Columbus.
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Eric McConnell |
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08/13/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Don't Waste That Food Waste, or When Good Things Happen to Bad Doodles (for the Week of Aug. 17, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: OK, so what's a better thing to do with food waste — be it old fish tacos, be it stale Cheez Doodles, be it bags of muffin stumps — than bury it in a landfill?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/27/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Polar Bears Threatened? (for the Week of May 25, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: We talked in class about polar bears. They just got listed as "threatened." What's it mean?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/02/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Do Skunks Spray Other Skunks? (for the Week of April 8, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: So ... do skunks ever spray each other?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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07/23/2012 |
President Gee Expresses Support for Ohio Farmers |
Concern about the drought currently gripping Ohio was apparent at Ohio State’s Molly Caren Agricultural Center, home of the annual Farm Science Review. Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee expressed his concern and support for Ohio farmers as he visited the farm today as part of the university’s annual Roads Scholars tour for new faculty.
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Amy Murray |
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08/05/2011 |
Piketon Field Night Aug. 11 Includes Pumpkin Pollination, Drip Irrigation, Small Fruit, Tomatoes |
PIKETON, Ohio – The Annual Horticulture Field Night will be held Thursday, Aug. 11, at Ohio State University's South Centers in Piketon. Registration begins at 5 p.m. with the program starting at 6 p.m. The cost to attend is $10 per person, which includes dinner.
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Julie Strawser-Moose |
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12/20/2012 |
Donation Benefits Animal Science Graduate Students |
WOOSTER, Ohio -- A former faculty member of The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences has established a new fund to support graduate students.
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Sarah Johnson |
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08/21/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Purple Box, Detector Gadget (for the Week of Aug. 24, 2008) |
Dear Twig: There's a funny purple box in a tree by the road near my house. I live in northern Ohio. I saw one in Pennsylvania, too. What are they?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/25/2012 |
Field Crop Programs Scheduled for Feb. 9, 14 in NW Ohio |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Field crop farmers will have two opportunities this February to get up to speed on new research and technology from Ohio State University experts as they make plans for the 2012 growing season.
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Mauricio Espinoza |
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05/29/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Tasmanian Devil in Devil of a Pickle (for the Week of June 1, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: We also talked in class about an animal called the Tasmanian devil. It's endangered. Why?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/10/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Dandy, Yes, But Not Before Bed (for the Week of April 15, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why are dandelions called dandelions?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/14/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Science Class Under the Sea (for the Week of Oct. 14, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: My teacher told us about a class called Project SeaCAMEL. What is it?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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06/27/2012 |
Media Advisory: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Visiting Campus June 28 |
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 Thursday, June 28.
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Suzanne Steel |
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04/18/2011 |
Media Advisory: OSU President Gee Unable to Attend Green Fair in Wooster Tomorrow |
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Ohio State University President Gordon Gee will not be attending tomorrow's Scarlet, Gray and Green Fair, to be held on the Wooster campus of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), as well as other activities previously scheduled in the Wooster community. The cancellation is due to funeral arrangements for Andrew Sorensen, Ohio State's senior vice president for development, who died unexpectedly on April 17.
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Mauricio Espinoza |
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04/16/2012 |
Mind the GAPs: Learn Fruit, Vegetable Safety Practices in Mt. Vernon April 17 |
MT. VERNON, Ohio -- Ohio State's Fruit and Vegetable Safety Team will hold a program on preventing microbial contamination on fruit and vegetable farms on April 17 at the Knox County office of OSU Extension,
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Ashley Kulhanek |
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12/18/2011 |
Ohio Corn and Soybean Performance Trial Results Now Available |
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Researchers with Ohio State University’s Department of Horticulture and Crop Science and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) have released results of the 2011 Corn Performance Test and 2011 Soybean Performance Trials.
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Andy Vance |
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12/19/2012 |
Note to CFAES News Release Subscribers |
In the next day or two, our news releases will start arriving in your inbox from a new email address: "CFAES News" <CFAESnews@osu.edu>
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04/05/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Seahorse Manure (for the Week of April 5, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: How do seahorses go to the bathroom?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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06/24/2012 |
Faith-based Sustainability? Environmental Scientist, Evangelical Leader to Speak in Wooster and Columbus This Week |
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Cal DeWitt of the University of Wisconsin, an expert on sustainability and land stewardship and a leading Christian environmentalist, will speak five times in Wooster and Columbus later this week, Jan. 26-28.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/15/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Energy Vampire! Boo! (for the Week of April 22, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: My brother said there are energy vampires. True?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/23/2012 |
Produce Safety Programs Set for Southern Ohio |
WOOSTER, Ohio — Produce Safety Education programs for farmers have been scheduled for March 20 in Clayton and April 11 in Piketon, both in southern Ohio.
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Ashley Kulhanek |
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10/21/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Squirrels A-fallin'! (for the Week of Oct. 21, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Do squirrels ever fall out of trees?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/15/2012 |
MacArthur Foundation Awards Ohio State $427,000 Grant to Analyze the Use of Reverse Mortgages and Its Impact on Older Adults |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A research team led by Stephanie Moulton, an assistant professor at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, was awarded one of five competitive grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for research to explore the relationships between housing and social and economic outcomes for families and communities.
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09/06/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Oak from Acorn? A-OK! (for the Week of Sept. 6, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Can I grow an oak tree from an acorn?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/05/2011 |
Imprelis, Much More: Attend Ohio Turfgrass Research Field Day Aug. 10 in Columbus |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The 2011 Ohio Turfgrass Research Field Day will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Ohio Turfgrass Foundation's (OTF) Research and Education Facility in Columbus.
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Siera Marth |
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05/20/2011 |
Media Advisory: U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur Joins OSU Extension Tomorrow (5/21) in Toledo to Kick Off EAB Awareness Week |
TOLEDO, Ohio -- U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur will join OSU Extension educators and officials from various agencies to help kick off Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week tomorrow (5/21) at Pearson Metropark, just east of Toledo.
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01/11/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Eagle Has Landed ... on a Monkey (for the Week of Jan. 11, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Is there really something called a monkey-eating eagle?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/19/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Dude, What's with the (Recycled) Pencils? (for the Week of Sept. 21, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: I know something else they make pencils out of. It isn't plastic, either. It's paper!
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/26/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Send in the Clown Loaches (for the Week of Aug. 31, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Erm, what's a clown loach?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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