If done right, composting can be a safe, cost-effective way to dispose of dead farm animals, and you can get certified to do it on March 7 in Tiffin and March 12 in Wauseon. (Photo: Getty Images.)
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No waste left behind; or, big doings soon in London
The 2016 North American Manure Expo is about to land in Ohio. The big event, covering the serious business of using livestock leavings to help grow crops, while doing it safely and greenly, is Aug. 3-4 at CFAES’s Molly Caren Agricultural Center in London, about 25 miles west of Columbus. Read the story…
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Chris Mooney of The Washington Post talked to CFAES scientist Jeff Firkins, among others, for yesterday’s story on how cleaner cow burps could help fight climate change.
Knee deep in clover: OEFFA conference preview
Want amazing grazing? That leaves your farm in sound condition in terms of the green and the green — economics and the environment? Bob Hendershot, retired Natural Resources Conservation Service grazing management specialist, and Jeff McCutcheon, an educator with CFAES’s outreach arm, OSU Extension, will share what you should know in a series of detailed sessions. “Pasture for Profit I-IV,” Saturday, Feb. 14, and Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s 36th annual conference. For more on the series, click here (PDF; p. 1 for times, p. 8 for session descriptions).