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  1. CTTC Record Crowd Looking to Conservation Practices for On-Farm Savings

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/cttc-record-crowd-looking-conservation-practices-farm-savings

    personnel, and other U.S. Department of Agriculture folks." Each year the conference welcomes farmers ... Canada. It features about 60 speakers. University specialists, industry representatives and farmers cover ...

  2. Continuous Corn Could Impact Water Quality

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/continuous-corn-could-impact-water-quality

    acreage for continuous corn production. Though no official acreage numbers from the U.S. Department of ... Agriculture have been released for Ohio, anecdotal numbers puts increased corn acreage at about 10 percent. ...

  3. Master Gardeners Help Brighten Community With New Children's Garden

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/master-gardeners-help-brighten-community-new-childrens-garden

    Gardener Volunteer Project. "The land was offered to us by Smiley Park and we thought a garden would ... "If we went out and contracted the design and construction of the garden, it would have cost us ...

  4. Winter Farming in Cleveland? Yes, With Help from Ohio State Ag Experts

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/winter-farming-cleveland-yes-help-ohio-state-ag-experts

    plant) with frigid water, she explained she found out about this program while looking for urban ... enthusiastic about his work. He attended an 8-week training session offered by OSU Extension's master ... experience or knowledge about how to actually start a farming program, and provides a lot of technical advice ...

  5. Growers Not Limited to One Sprayer Option for Soybean Rust

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/growers-not-limited-one-sprayer-option-soybean-rust

    included plant pathologists from Ohio State, and engineers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS ... option was not available to us because luckily soybean rust didn't show up in Ohio. And we only have ...

  6. Family Fundamentals: Give child choices to help improve behavior (for November 2008)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/family-fundamentals-give-child-choices-help-improve-behavior-november-2008

    which you would talk to him about why his behavior was unacceptable and how he could handle the ... traditional time-out methods that you might find helpful. The key concept: Life is all about choices. First, ... forget about designating a special time-out spot. If the goal of the time-out is to redirect behavior, ...

  7. Drought Adding A Wrinkle to Crop Marketing Decisions

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/drought-adding-wrinkle-crop-marketing-decisions-0

    year." Shrinking corn and soybean production numbers and lower yields for Ohio headline the U.S ... of the smaller than normal production." According to the August report, U.S. corn and soybean ...

  8. Ag Economist: Look to Long-Term Sustainability to Solve Food Crisis

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ag-economist-look-long-term-sustainability-solve-food-crisis

    said Tweeten. "For example, the U.S. spends 3 to 4 percent of its agricultural GDP on research. ... global free trade. "Global food production varies only about 1 percent per year, but production in ...

  9. Know Soil Nutrient Needs for Best Continuous Corn Management

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/know-soil-nutrient-needs-best-continuous-corn-management

    Development Center, said that a simple soil test can reveal all that a grower needs to know about ... a soil-acidifying reaction, so growers might think about liming more frequently to maintain the pH at around ... consistent about the time of sampling when soil samples are collected. For example, if a grower has ...

  10. New Irrigation Technology Can Conserve Water/Save Money

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/new-irrigation-technology-can-conserve-watersave-money

    learn more about the drip irrigation technology at Farm Science Review, Sept. 16-18 at the Molly Caren ... Centers," said Bergefurd. To learn more about the technology or to view the drip irrigation research and ... education unit at OSU South Centers, contact Brad Bergefurd at (740) 289-2071. To learn more about Farm ...

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