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Proposed Research Facility to Focus on Plant/Animal Diseases
March 6, 2002 WOOSTER, Ohio- Processing and health problems associated with pathogenic organisms cost the food industry $8.5 billion a year. With roughly 20 percent of the population suffering from pathogen-related illnesses with about 5,000 deaths occurr ...
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Putnam County to Celebrate 10 Years of Farm Safety Education
April 3, 2009 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- With Ohio youth among the demographics with the highest number of injuries and fatalities per year for rural hazards, safety education both on and off the farm has become an annual effort for Ohio State University Extension. ...
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Plant Germplasm Center Steadily Building Collection
October 14, 2002 COLUMBUS, Ohio- The Ohio State University Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center has come a long way since its grand opening a little more than a year ago. The center, whose main purpose is to save, assess and promote the use of ornamental pla ...
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Piketon Business Incubator Receives Additional Funds
August 11, 2004 PIKETON, Ohio — Ohio State University South Centers at Piketon has received a grant to aid in the continuation of the development of the Endeavor Center Business Incubator and Training Facility — a business tool designed to increase jobs a ...
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OSU Soil Scientist Gets Glimpse of Soviet Ag System; Receives Honorary Degree
October 26, 2010 COLUMBUS, Ohio – It's not everyday one gets the chance to view agricultural life of a former Soviet nation. But Ohio State University soil scientist Rattan Lal was given that opportunity when he recently traveled to the Republic of ...
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OSU Plant Pathologist Awarded for Excellence in Extension Outreach and Education
July 29, 2009 WOOSTER, Ohio – An Ohio State University Extension plant pathologist has been awarded the American Phytopathological Society Excellence in Extension Award, in part for furthering national educational efforts on soybean rust. Anne Dorrance, ...
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OSU Outreach Program Teaches Central Ohio Youth About Agriculture
May 27, 2010 COLUMBUS, Ohio – George Keeney, manager of Ohio State University's Insectary in the Department of Entomology, pulls an insect from a clear plastic container for a group of attentive fourth-and fifth-grade students. "It's a sc ...
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OSU Extension to Hold Scrapie Eradication Programs
December 18, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ohio- Producers who have questions or concerns regarding the United States Department of Agriculture's new regulations for sheep and goat identification will have the opportunity to attend one of seven Ohio State Universit ...
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Plant Resistance to Soybean Aphid Found in Ohio
https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/plant-resistance-soybean-aphid-found-ohio
November 18, 2008 WOOSTER, Ohio-- A soybean plant introduction (PI) has been found to show resistance to soybean aphid in Ohio, paving the way to control the insect through new resistant cultivars. The soybean PI, labeled PI 243540, contains a single do ...
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OSU South Centers Receives Federal Funding to Continue Aquaculture Program
April 6, 2009 PIKETON, Ohio – At a time when some aquaculture research programs across the nation are struggling, the aquaculture program at Ohio State University's South Centers at Piketon is still going strong. The Ohio Aquaculture Research and Dev ...