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12/12/2012 |
Media Advisory: Ohio State Experts Available to Speak on Thousand Cankers Disease in Walnut Trees |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The following experts in Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences are available to speak with reporters about the first discovery in Ohio of the walnut twig beetle.
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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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10/02/2012 |
Ohio State Food, Ag, Env Calendar Listings as of Oct. 3 |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Here are upcoming events involving Ohio State's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences as of Oct. 3.
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Kaitlyn Riemenschneider |
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08/09/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hawk Makes a Splash (for the Week of Aug. 9, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: I saw a big hawk in my grandmother's bird bath.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/26/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Osage Can You See? (for the Week of Oct. 26, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What are those green things? Under that tree? They're all kind of big, round and wrinkly.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/03/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Big Stink? Smell a Winner! (for the Week of Feb. 3, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's the worst smell in the world?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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06/01/2011 |
Media Advisory: Unique Highway Tree Planting Project Kicks Off Tomorrow (6/2) in Gahanna |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Reporters are invited tomorrow (6/2) at 10 a.m. to the kickoff of “Greening the Highways” -- a binational project that seeks to increase the survival rate and environmental benefits of trees planted in urban areas in Ontario, Canada, and Ohio. The project's first tree planting in Ohio will take place in Gahanna, at the intersection of I-270 South and Hamilton Road.
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08/02/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Raccoon Latrines and Why to Avoid Them in Case You Don't Do It and Aren't a Raccoon (for the Week of Aug. 2, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's a raccoon latrine?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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08/16/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: All the Colors of the Tomatobow! (for the Week of Aug. 16, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: How many colors of tomatoes are there?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/13/2012 |
Micki Zartman Scarlet and Gray Ag Day to Recognize, Inspire Superheroes in Our Fields |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The 2012 Micki Zartman Scarlet and Gray Ag Day, Superheroes in Our Fields, will showcase the impact that agricultural professionals have on the world.
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Stephanie Verhoff |
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02/10/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Dung Paper Comes Up Smelling Like Roses or At Least Not Like Partly Digested Roses (for the Week of Feb. 10, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's that paper made from elephant dung like? What about from buffalo chips
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/25/2012 |
Ohio State Food, Ag, Env Calendar Listings as of April 25 |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Here are upcoming events involving Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences as of April 25.
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Kaitlyn Riemenschneider |
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01/18/2012 |
Spreading Manure on Frozen Ground Option for Producers, But Proper Application Crucial |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Saturated field conditions last fall and early this winter have made it difficult for livestock producers in Ohio and the Midwest to apply manure. As a result, most farmers are beginning to run out of manure storage room right now.
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Mauricio Espinoza |
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07/01/2011 |
Down-Under Digestive Microbes Could Help Lower Methane Gas From Livestock |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The discovery that a bacterial species in the Australian Tammar wallaby gut is responsible for keeping the animal’s methane emissions relatively low suggests a potential new strategy may exist to try to reduce methane emissions from livestock, according to a new study.
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01/09/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Kilimanjaro Snow No Mo'? (for the Week of Jan. 14, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What does global warming have to do with the snows of Kilimanjaro?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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09/02/2011 |
Ohio State’s Dean of Food, Ag, Environment to Step Down |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The longest-tenured dean at The Ohio State University announced his transition plans today.
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Suzanne Steel |
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06/13/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Gift of Pbbbbbt! (for the Week of June 17, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What does it mean to give someone a raspberry?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/05/2012 |
Workshop to Address Legal Risks for Livestock and Dairy Producers |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Farmers who raise livestock and dairy can learn more about legal risks and what they can do to reduce their risks in a workshop hosted by Ohio State University Extension and the National Agricultural Law Center.
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Peggy Hall |
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08/12/2011 |
Corn, Soybeans: Attend SW Ohio Field Day For Expert Advice Aug. 16 in Washington Court House |
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio -- The Southwest Ohio Corn Growers and the Fayette County Agronomy Committee will hold their annual field day and test plot demonstrations on Tuesday, Aug. 16, from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Fayette County Demonstration Farm just north of Washington Court House.
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Mauricio Espinoza |
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11/02/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Osage Orange You Glad to See One? (for the Week of Nov. 2, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Did you find any Osage oranges?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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02/17/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: E-cars Go! (for the Week of Feb. 17, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Are electric cars really real?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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12/07/2012 |
Media Advisory: OARDC in Wooster to Help Launch State's 100 Gbps Broadband Network Tuesday, Dec. 11 |
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Reporters are invited to the inauguration of Ohio's 100-Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) statewide broadband network, which will take place Tuesday, Dec. 11, at various university sites -- including the Wooster campus of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC).
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Mauricio Espinoza |
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01/17/2012 |
Feb. 20: How to Grow, Sell Safer Produce |
HOMERVILLE, Ohio -- A program on preventing microbial contamination on fruit and vegetable farms takes place in northern Ohio on Feb. 20.
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Ashley Kulhanek |
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05/24/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Nurdle Beach (for the Week of May 24, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: So what about nurdles?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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05/07/2010 |
Board of Trustees’ Ag Committee Visits OARDC Campus |
The Ohio State University Board of Trustees' Agricultural Affairs Committee met in Wooster late last month (4/26). Committee members had a chance to learn about a variety of research programs and activities going on at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) and at the Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI).
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11/06/2012 |
Ohio State Food, Ag, Env Calendar Listings as of Nov. 7 |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Here are upcoming events involving Ohio State's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences as of Nov. 7.
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Kaitlyn Riemenschneider |
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02/24/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: E-cars Cleaner, Cheaper? (for the Week of Feb. 24, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: What about the electricity you need to charge an electric car? Doesn't that make pollution and cost money, too?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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06/22/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Tire Taters! (for the Week of June 24, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: My friend's dad is growing potatoes in old car tires. Why? How?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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