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EORDC Manager Receives Ohio Cattlemen's Award
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/eordc-manager-receives-ohio-cattlemens-award
operations of the Eastern Ohio Resource and Development Center (EORDC). Heâs also the owner of one of the ... stateâs most successful cow-calf operations, which earned him the first-ever Ohio Cattlemenâs ... specialize in different aspects of production. Communication and cooperation are essential.â Shriver ...
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Farmers to Learn New Strawberry Production Method that Creates Earlier and Longer Harvest
May 11, 2012 PIKETON, Ohio – Strawberry growers can learn about a new production method taught by ... that can be harvested in early May and well into fall. Thanks to a new production method called ... berries to market at least a month earlier than the traditional matted row production that has been used ...
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Ohio State Partner in $5.7M Grant to Develop New Biofuel
"Plant-based Sesquiterpene Biofuels," involves the production of a hydrocarbon from two drought-tolerant plants: ... these two crops at the genetic level so they can boost the production of farnesene, a natural plant oil ... perfect production of the farnesene molecule inside the plant," said Katrina Cornish, Ohio ...
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Chow Line: Now is prime time to examine grocery bill (8/3/12)
and milk. That’s because the animals that produce those products eat so much corn, and corn prices are ... of beef and dairy products, for example, just 1 percent higher than the 2.5 to 3.5 percent hike ... It’s usually so abundant that grocery stores offer great deals on it. Beans (garbanzo, black, kidney ...
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Protecting Harvested Grains Even More Important This Year Thanks to Drought and Lower Yield Forecasts
said. “The protection of the grain doesn’t stop with harvest, so if you are storing the grain on your ... It appears that corn production will drop 13 percent to a six-year low, the U.S. Department of ... Agriculture said earlier this month. In its August crops report, USDA cut its projected U.S. corn production ...
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OARDC Receives $2 Million Grant to Support Growing U.S. Greenhouse Tomato Industry
rapidly growing sector of U.S. vegetable production. Annual losses of as much as $1 million due to tomato diseases ... Meanwhile, disease management costs can be prohibitive for smaller operations. “Greenhouse tomato producers ... list diseases as the highest risk factor to their productivity and profitability,” said Sally Miller, ...
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Lake County Extension Educator Honored with National Nursery Award
broad area of commercial production, distribution for retail and landscape uses, and marketing of ... a community of industry innovators and experts, and unique profitability focused programming, products and ...
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Ohio State to Hold First-ever Training Course on Anaerobic Digestion
to grow successfully, training must be available for the workforce, including AD operators ... , regulatory personnel who will oversee permitting and operations, and investors who will provide funding.” Li ... want to find out if anaerobic digestion is right for their operation, whether a farm, a wastewater ...
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Ohio Sheep Day Day July 14
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-sheep-day-day-july-14
visitors the opportunity to see a successful sheep farming operation and receive ideas about nutrition, ... management systems and other areas of sheep production. The field day will be held July 14 from 9 a.m. to ... the profitability of sheep operations, said Roger A. High an Ohio State University Extension sheep ...
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Agribusinesses, Farmers Urged to Enforce Security Measures
October 5, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ohio- Farmers, product dealers and equipment manufacturers are ... recommended to take necessary security measures regarding manufacturing, storing, marketing, transporting and ... products. "I think it's a normal, good practice that farmers keep an eye on their equipment. All ...