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  1. ECO Farming: A New Farming System for the 21st Century

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/eco-farming-new-farming-system-21st-century

    August 3, 2011 CELINA, Ohio-- Everyone has an opinion about conventional tillage versus no-till. ...

  2. Options Limited to Rectify Compacted Fields This Spring

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/options-limited-rectify-compacted-fields-spring

    only about 20 percent of Ohio's cornfields are in a no-till system, the state leads the Midwest in ... field operations in March and April. A worst-case scenario would be a drought this summer. We are about ...

  3. Learn to Convert On-Farm Resources into Renewable Energy at Farm Science Review

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/learn-convert-farm-resources-renewable-energy-farm-science-review

    new, but many farmers don't even think about how much they are spending each month on energy ... about ways of making their farm more energy efficient and sustainable, while potentially saving money at ...

  4. Look to Soil Tests, Not Yields When Making Fertilizer Applications

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/look-soil-tests-not-yields-when-making-fertilizer-applications

    $400 a ton for phosphorus and from $1,000 a ton to about half that now for potassium. For those farmers ... making it unavailable to the plant. "Adequate phosphorus for a corn/bean rotation is about 25-30 ...

  5. Chow Line: Don't give up if some dairy is hard to digest (for 6/6/10)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/chow-line-dont-give-if-some-dairy-hard-digest-6610-1

    now I'm worried about calcium. What's your advice? Well, it's quite possible your ... need 1,200 milligrams a day. One cup of low-fat milk has about 300 milligrams of calcium. For detailed ...

  6. Chow Line: Choose right foods to reduce cholesterol (for 11/19/06)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/chow-line-choose-right-foods-reduce-cholesterol-111906

    sprouts, broccoli, apricots and psyllium. Soy protein also appears to help. About an ounce a day (four ... Studies say that one gram a day-- contained in about two tablespoons of these spreads-- can lower ...

  7. Chow Line: Eat for a healthy heart (for 2/14/10)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/chow-line-eat-healthy-heart-21410-1

    article on its Consumer Updates page (http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/) about using the Nutrition Facts ... because they have met with significant scientific agreement about the relationship of the nutrients ...

  8. Chow Line: Cut overall fats, then boost healthful ones (for 7/8/07)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/chow-line-cut-overall-fats-then-boost-healthful-ones-7807-1

    Council Foundation found that 72 percent of Americans are concerned about both the amount and the type of ... most people have gotten the message about those fats. But at the same time, only 10 percent of the ...

  9. Chow Line: Clementines chock full of nutrition (for 12/23/07)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/chow-line-clementines-chock-full-nutrition-122307-1

    fruit. The average clementine has about half the vitamin C of an orange-- 36 milligrams compared to 70 in ... milligrams of vitamin C, and a half-cup of raw pineapple has about 40 milligrams. A medium-sized apple has ...

  10. Heat/Diseases Blamed For Drop In Pumpkin Yields

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/heatdiseases-blamed-drop-pumpkin-yields

    subjecting the fruit to all kinds of diseases." According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ohio is ...

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