Month: December 2016

Leading the effort to ‘enhance the sustainability of soils’

CFAES’s Richard Dick, who’s “one of the leading soil scientists in the world, having advanced our knowledge on soil as a resource to deliver environmental services and promote food production,” has been elected 2018 president of the prestigious Soil Science Society of America. He’s a professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the School of Environment and Natural Resources.

SSSA is the professional home for more than 6,300 members and 1,000 certified professionals. It works to enhance the sustainability of soils, the environment and food production by integrating diverse scientific disciplines and principles in soil science.

Berry nice! 7 jolly alternative hollies you can grow in Ohio

Image of longstalk holly for GBPaul Snyder of CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum in Wooster lists seven jolly hollies that provide year-round good looks, food for wildlife and cut branches for decorating at the holidays, and unlike the traditional English holly, can handle Ohio’s bleak midwinters. (Photo: Finetooth holly in Secrest Arboretum by Mitch Moser, CFAES.)