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Organic vs. Conventional Practices on Soil Quality

https://offer.osu.edu/blog/september-19-2019-536pm/organic-vs-conventional-practices-soil-quality

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 ...

Safe Food Handler Person In Charge (PIC) Training

https://montgomery.osu.edu/events/safe-food-handler-person-charge-pic-training

This class is for employees who prepare and serve food for others and are required by the Health Department to have Person-In-Charge training but NOT Manager Certification Food Protection (formerly Level 2). Instructor is Pat Holmes, who is an Ohio Depart ...

Dairy Herd Health Protocols

https://wayne.osu.edu/news/dairy-herd-health-protocols

define how the health of dairy animals will be monitored, how a health issue or disease will be ... diseases of pre-weaned calves are: septicemia, diarrhea, and pneumonia. Septicemia can result when ...

Five-Year Study of Soil Balancing Concludes

https://offer.osu.edu/blog/august-27-2019-517pm/five-year-study-soil-balancing-concludes

soils soil amendments ...

Dairy Conferences Provide Learning Opportunities

https://wayne.osu.edu/news/dairy-conferences-provide-learning-opportunities

give up milk”. Other speakers include Dr. Bill Yost providing a dairy update and Dianne Shoemaker, OSU ...

Ohio State Completes Five-Year Study of Soil Balancing

https://offer.osu.edu/node/125

[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 ...

Organic Weed Decision Making Tool

https://offer.osu.edu/organic%20weed%20manager

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 ...

Organic Weed Control Case Studies

https://offer.osu.edu/eco-weed-mngt/case-studies

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 Corn Take-Home link

https://offer.osu.edu/relatedlinks/organic-corn-take-home-link

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

Project Results Summary (2-page)

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Brief Project Results Summary Research Soil Balancing Research Team Soil Balancing Team Resources ...

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