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MarketReady Workshop to Teach Producers How to Sell to Grocers, Restaurants, Wholesale and to Consumers
May 3, 2012 CANFIELD, Ohio-- Food producers looking to sell through different marketing channels are invited to attend a MarketReady training program on June 12 in Canfield, Ohio. The daylong workshop, held at the Mill Creek MetroParks Farm, 7574 Columbia ...
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Webinar to Introduce Climate Change Communication Strategies
May 8, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State University Climate Change Outreach Team will host a webinar on climate change May 9, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. The webinar, “Framing Climate Change: Recent Research Trends on Communication Strategies and Public Opi ...
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Chadwick Arboretum Spring Plant Sale Set for May 10-12
May 8, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio – With Arbor Day still fresh in plant lovers’ minds and Mother's Day soon to come, the annual Spring Plant Sale, Auction, and Gardening Fair at Ohio State University's Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens is expecte ...
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New Strawberry Production Method Allows Growers Earlier and Longer Fruit Harvest
May 8, 2012 PIKETON, Ohio – Fresh Ohio strawberries harvested in early May? How about the locally grown, sweet fruit well into fall? Thanks to a new production method called p lasticulture, Ohio consumers now have access to locally grown strawberries as ...
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Taking the Registered Tax Return Preparer Test? Here Are 2 Ways to Get Ready
May 10, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Ohio State University Extension and the OSU Income Tax School Program are offering two educational options to tax practitioners who are preparing to take the new Registered Tax Return Preparer (RTRP) competency test this year ...
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Curcumin Extract Lowers Triglycerides, Boosts Antioxidant Activity: Ohio State Study
May 10, 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- A low dose of a curcumin extract from the spice turmeric can have a variety of positive health effects on healthy middle-aged individuals, according to an Ohio State University study presented at the 2012 Experimental Biology ...
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Slug Feeding Injury Rampant for Crop Growers as Near-record Warm Winter Causes the Pests to Attack Weeks Earlier than Normal
May 10, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio – Crop growers should take extra precaution to scout their fields this spring for slugs as the near-record warm winter Ohio has experienced this year has caused these plant feeders to have attacked earlier than normal and reach ...
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Wheat Growers Watching Weather in Ohio as Crops Are Ahead Two Weeks and Could Result in Strong Yields or Diseased Fields
May 11, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Wheat is already heading in some fields in northern and central Ohio and is flowering in some fields in the southern third of the state, some two weeks earlier than expected, according to an Ohio State University Extension whe ...
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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 an Ohio State University Extension specialist that can help them grow larger, sweeter strawberries that can be harvested in early May and well into fall. Th ...
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Ohio State Involved in Gates Foundation's $8M Grant for Childhood Malnutrition
May 14, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio -- An $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund an international team of scientists focused on finding new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent a critical global health problem: malnutrition in inf ...