More and more growers are using biostimulants containing microbes on their crops. The microbes are aimed at helping the crops grow better and faster. The products’ variety is growing fast, too.
So what do they do? How well do they work? How should a grower use them?
Mažeika Sullivan, director of CFAES’s Wilma H. Shiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, will keynote this year’s Stone Lab Winter Program on Feb. 19 in Columbus. The program is an educational and fundraising event in support of Stone Lab, Ohio State’s Lake Erie island campus.
Six guest speakers, a silent auction (including an antique microscope and Ohio State football tickets), a cash bar, Stone Lab merchandise sales and more are on the program’s agenda. Admission is free and open to the public. Find details and a link to RSVP.
Sullivan and some of his students talk about the importance of wetlands, and of the park specifically, in the 2014 video above, which was shot in and near the park.
Sullivan, among his efforts, is trying to develop a new diagnostic tool for harmful algal blooms in rivers and streams.
Interested in taking classes at Stone Lab, Ohio State’s Lake Erie island campus, this summer? There are scholarships available to help you pay for it. Apply by March 1 if you’re in college, March 14 if you’re in high school. Learn more.
(Photo: Marmota monax by Cephas (own work), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)
Ten Ohio State experts, most of them collaborators in CFAES’s Organic Food and Farming Education and Research program, will be among the many speakers at the largest sustainable food and farming conference in Ohio. (Photo: CFAES.)
