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01/25/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Chickens in Your Own Backyard (for the Week of Jan. 25, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Can I raise chickens in my backyard?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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01/19/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hey, Bu'b! Save Dough! Cut Gas! (for the Week of Jan. 21, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What's with the curlicue light bulbs?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/20/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Susque-whatta? (Plus a New Reader Contest!) (for the Week of April 20, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: "Susquehanna." Now that's a beautiful word.
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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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06/14/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: The Pull of the Pork (for the Week of June 14, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: Why do they call it pulled pork?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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11/16/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Turkey, Meet Godzilla (for the Week of Nov. 16, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: Who would win a fight between Godzilla and a turkey? A really big turkey. As big as Godzilla.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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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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02/01/2009 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Chickens on the White House Lawn (for the Week of Feb. 1, 2009) |
Q. Dear Twig: You said I can maybe raise chickens in my own backyard. What about the President? Can he raise chickens in his backyard, too?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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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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01/24/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Blargh of the Albatross (for the Week of Jan. 28, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: This one time, at science camp, an albatross (albatross!) threw up on my aunt.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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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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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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07/01/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: People-sized Penguins (for the Week of July 1, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Did you hear about the giant penguin?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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04/20/2011 |
Secrest Arboretum Plant, Art Sale is May 7 |
WOOSTER, Ohio – Secrest Arboretum’s 18th annual Plant Discovery Day takes place May 7 at OARDC.
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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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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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08/17/2012 |
Niblack Named Fellow of Society of Nematologists |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The chair of Ohio State University's Department of Plant Pathology has been inducted as a Fellow in the Society of Nematologists.
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Martha Filipic |
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01/16/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Who Else Needs the Arctic? (for the Week of Jan. 13, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: What about other Arctic animals? If the ice cap melts, what will it mean to them?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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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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05/04/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Mononga-how-la? (for the Week of May 4, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: "Monangaheely"? I don't get that either.
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/15/2012 |
Cleaner, Safer Produce? Program for Farmers is April 14 |
CANFIELD, Ohio -- A program on preventing microbial contamination on fruit and vegetable farms takes place in Mahoning County on April 14.
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Ashley Kulhanek |
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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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07/08/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Wet, Wild Fish Sounds (for the Week of July 8, 2007) |
Dear Twig: Can fish talk? Make sounds? Bloop? Bleep?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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10/20/2011 |
Bucking Hardwood Logs for Urban Tree Professionals: Sign Up for Nov. 15 Workshop in Bowling Green |
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- Urban foresters and other tree professionals will learn the best ways to utilize tree stems to their highest potential and find better markets at a one-day, hands-on workshop scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Bowling Green, northwest Ohio.
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Mauricio Espinoza |
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05/08/2012 |
Coming June 2 in Canton: Food Safety Practices for Fruit, Vegetable Growers |
CANTON, Ohio -- Stark Parks will host a program on food safety practices for fruit and vegetable growers from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on June 2 at the Exploration Gateway at Sippo Lake Park.
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Ashley Kulhanek |
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11/23/2008 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Oh, Deer, Where's the Velvet? (for the Week of Nov. 23, 2008) |
Q. Dear Twig: The stuff that a deer rubs off of its antlers — the "velvet." What happens to it? My dad and I saw a rubbed tree but no velvet.
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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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02/02/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: How to Stop Another Katrina (for the Week of Feb. 11, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: Can what happened to New Orleans, the damage from Hurricane Katrina, happen again? If it can, what can we do to stop it?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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03/23/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Ranking Skunk Species (for the Week of April 1, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: You said there are several skunk species. How do they smell? The same? Different?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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07/13/2007 |
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: To Be in Clover (or Not to Bee) (for the Week of July 15, 2007) |
Q. Dear Twig: The lawn at my house has clover in it. Is that good or bad?
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Kurt Knebusch |
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