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Resources on Prevented Planting Acres

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As the wet spring becomes a wet summer, Ohio State agronomists have been sharing resources and information for late summer planting alternatives. This article has been adapted from several articles in the Ohio State Agronomic Crops newsletter (C.O.R.N.) ...

Organic vs. Conventional Practices on Soil Quality

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Ohio State researchers compared an organic system to a conventional, looking at several soil quality indicators such as bulk density, organic matter content, and nematode populations. After four years, the organic system had fewer harmful nematodes, espec ...

Helpful Resources

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Five-Year Study of Soil Balancing Concludes

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soils soil amendments ...

Organic Weed Decision Making Tool

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See how our Organic Weed Decision Software works in the videos below: Click here for slides only (pdf). Our prior research indicates that although weeds are a major issue for organic farmers, farmers have been slow to adopt ecological weed management ...

Ohio State Completes Five-Year Study of Soil Balancing

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[WOOSTER, OH] --The Ohio State University is concluding a five-year project examining the beliefs, practices, and effects of soil balancing. Soil balancing involves the use of high calcium amendments to manipulate the ratio of calcium, magnesium, and pota ...

Ohio State Researchers: Eating Tomatoes May Protect Against Skin Cancer

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risk for skin-related diseases, could provide a significant benefit,” Cooperstone said. “Foods are not ... drugs, but they can possibly over the lifetime of consumption alter the development of certain diseases ...

Organic Weed Control Case Studies

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Below are various case studies that show how individual farms approached ecological weed management techniques. Case Studies Organic Vegetable Farms in New England: Three Case Studies From the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, a detailed overvi ...

Organic Weed Management

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Weed management is one of the biggest challenges in the organic agroecosystem, and a barrier to conventional farmers who desire to transition. In response, researchers have invested heavily in the study of ecological weed management approaches for organic ...

Organic Corn Take-Home link

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Take-Home Messages from Organic Corn Management Survey A Profile of Organic Corn Production in the Midwest and Northeast ...

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