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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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07/12/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Quills of Prickly Porky (for the Week of July 12, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why don't porcupines stick to things? All those pointy quills and all ...
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/31/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: All I Got Was a Bellyache (for the Week of May 31, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: What does that mean, "Blech, nurdley"?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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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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12/12/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Jingle Bells, Why Batman Smells (for the Week of Dec. 16, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: I have a question about the words that my sister and I sing to "Jingle Bells."
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Kurt Knebusch |
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12/20/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Bumbles Bounce, Will Santa Float? (for the Week of Dec. 23, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Did you hear that the North Pole is melting?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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12/15/2006 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Horse Meat, Yay or Neigh? (for the Week of Dec. 31, 2006) |
Q. Dear Twig: Not that I want to do it myself, but what's the deal about people eating horse meat?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/23/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Native Bee Team (for the Week of May 27, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Are there other bees besides honeybees and bumblebees?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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07/19/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Paddy the Beaver Gets a Clonking (for the Week of July 19, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Do the trees beavers cut down ever fall on and squish the beavers?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/10/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Using Your Nurdle (for the Week of May 10, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's a nurdle?
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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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12/30/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: About Arctic Shrinkage (for the Week of Dec. 30, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: So scientists say that the Arctic ice cap is melting — getting smaller. What do they say is the reason?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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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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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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01/09/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Polar Bear Question (for the Week of Jan. 6, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: The polar bears, remember? If the Arctic ice cap melts and shrinks, what will that do to them?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/26/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Motorcycle Muffins (for the Week of Aug. 26, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Can animal poop on the road cause a crash?
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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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07/26/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Big Z's (for the Week of July 26, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's the biggest zucchini in the world?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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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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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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10/19/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Turkey Beard? Weird! (for the Week of Oct. 19, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Did you know that turkeys have beards?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/20/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Antarctic Melting? ... Melting? (for the Week of Jan. 20, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: ‘Arctic ice' this, ‘Arctic ice' that. What's going on with the ice in Antarctica?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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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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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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03/28/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Chucks with Gnarly Choppers! (for the Week of March 30, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Woodchucks? Needing braces? Of what might you be talking, Twiggis?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/29/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Your Home, Where Giant Buffalo Once Roamed (for the Week of Sept. 2, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: The mammoth. The mastodon. The saber-toother tiger. Where'd they live? Where'd they go?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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12/21/2006 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick (for the Week of Jan. 7, 2007): Warmer Winters, Sooner Weevils |
Q.: Dear Twig: How do scientists know there's global warming — global climate change — going on?
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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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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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