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OARDC’s Steve Slack inducted into NIFA Hall of Fame
Steve Slack (pictured), who retired at the end of December after 16 years as OARDC director, has ... years of faculty and administrative service.” “The state-federal partnership, as exemplified by NIFA and ...
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Zero waste, big benefits: OARDC hosts large-scale composting course
In the future, Fred Michel (pictured) sees less food waste going into landfills. Or even none at ... large-scale composting, such as by farms, cities and industry, and co-organized the recent Ohio Compost ... organic wastes, such as food waste, into soil nutrients and soil amendments.” The course, which marked its ...
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How to fight cancer with natural food dyes
is commercializing her patented process. Giusti serves as the company’s chief scientist. Anthocyanins ... vegetables. Giusti (pictured), associate professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology, is ... internationally known for her research on their potential as cancer-fighters and as natural food dyes. “Most ...
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This was the polar express: ‘Worst grape damage on record in Ohio’
a survey of 62 grape growers around Ohio, OARDC scientist Imed Dami (pictured) found that last winter’s ... cold damaged nearly all of the growers’ vinifera grape vines (high-value European kinds such as ... Chardonnay and Cabernet Franc), more than half of hybrid types such as Vidal Blanc and Traminette, and nearly ...
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Most farmers willing to take steps to protect water, says study done near lake Erie
Wilson (pictured). “If you want to motivate farmers to take actions on their farms to lessen nutrient ... loss (such as of phosphorus), you should be talking about how not taking action can impact their farm ... profits as well as how it will impact local water quality,” said Wilson, associate professor in the School ...
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Kale! Kale! The gang’s all here … in an Ohio State greenhouse growing veggies for students
into such dishes as Caesar salads, caprese sandwiches, and kale and bacon tarts (recipe here), all ... Farm-to-table systems aim to shorten the distance as much as possible between where a food is produced and where ... Holford (pictured above, right), corporate executive chef with Student Life Dining Services. She said ...
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New lecture series honors OARDC’s Steve Slack
lecture series in honor of Steve Slack (pictured), who served as OARDC’s director for 16 years until his ... impact’ on lives In addition to being regarded as an expert in his or her discipline, the chosen lecturer ...
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Kissing bugs here in Ohio? No need to get in a pucker: OARDC scientists
professor in the Department of Entomology. Called Triatoma sanguisuga (pictured), it lives mainly in the ... cold-weather home invaders such as stink bugs, boxelder bugs and leaf-footed bugs, such as the western ... classifies Chagas disease as a neglected tropical disease, so it’s great that the public is becoming more ...
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As the research arm of Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and ... was established in 1892 as the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. The name was changed to OARDC in ... Buildings just west of the Olentangy River house OARDC researchers and faculty, as well as graduate and ...
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OARDC organic farming program has new interim leader; ‘period of reinvention’ ahead
Doug Doohan (pictured), professor in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, has been ... In his new role, Doohan will serve as OFFER’s main contact point with Ohio’s organic farmers. He’ll ...