This Halloween, give a thought to Ohio’s bats, which are facing something truly scary.
Continue reading No treat for bats, it’s ‘one of the worst wildlife diseases of the past century’
Month: October 2017
Ohio up to 7th in US for number of organic farms
Ohio ranks seventh in the U.S. for its number of organic farms, according to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture survey reported last week in the Akron Beacon Journal. That’s up from eighth in 2015.
Of note, the 2016 Certified Organic Survey also showed a more than 30-percent increase from 2015 in the state’s organic food sales. Read the survey summary.
Summer on Lake Erie? Sign me up
Stone Lab, Ohio State’s island campus on Lake Erie, is now accepting applications for its 2018 summer classes — on biology, zoology, ecology and more — for high school students, college students, teachers and the public. Learn more and apply.
Do you really have to do that?
Scientists with CFAES are studying ways to curb three outputs from the back end of cows: methane gas, a potent climate change gas; and phosphorus and nitrogen in manure, both of which can pollute water.
Good for both farming and the planet? Darn tootin’.
Insect allies: How the enemies of corn may someday save it
New technology being co-developed by CFAES scientists could make it possible to save a growing crop from imminent widespread disaster, whether drought, pest or disease.
And it doesn’t come in a pesticide sprayer.
To bee, or not to bee
Gift creates new learning community on food security
A $700,000 gift from the Columbus Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Pat and Bobby Moser has created the Food Security and Sustainability Learning Community in CFAES. The new program, a residential housing option for students in our college, will encourage holistic study and community engagement on food security issues.
From deer to bats to cats, conference to focus on managing wildlife conflicts
What’s a city to do about deer? Bats? Loose-running cats?
Experts will discuss answers at the Ohio Community Wildlife Cooperative’s annual conference, set for Nov. 8 on Ohio State’s Columbus campus.
Continue reading From deer to bats to cats, conference to focus on managing wildlife conflicts
Pasture-ized: 2 sustainable farm events Saturday
The Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series continues this Saturday, Oct. 21, with two events, both rooted in grass: The Pastured Providence Farmstead Open House from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Chillicothe in southern Ohio, and the Pasture-Raised Livestock Beginning Farm Tour from 4 to 7 p.m. in Ashtabula in the state’s far northeast corner. CFAES’s Sustainable Agriculture Team is a co-presenter of the series. Download the series brochure.