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  1. December 2018 Highlights

    https://fst.osu.edu/newsletter/food-science-and-technology-news/december-2018-highlights

    the Food Industries Center collaborated to offer a "Food Safety Document Development Workshop for ... develop their food safety documentation as well as complete their qualified facility FDA attestations. Dr. ...

  2. Time to Take the Last Forage Cutting

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/time-take-last-forage-cutting

    particularly important this year, because our surviving stands have suffered a great deal of wet soil stress ... management, age of stand, soil fertility, variety, and soil moisture that affect the level of that risk. For ... especially soil potassium levels, and a soil pH near 6.8 will improve plant health and increase tolerance to ...

  3. SOIL AGGREGATE STABILITY – A SOIL HEALTH PHYSICAL INDICATOR

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/news/soil-aggregate-stability-%E2%80%93-soil-health-physical-indicator

    By: Alan Sundermeier and Vinayak Shedekar     A suite of soil health measurements are becoming ... available which are not part of the traditional soil tests. Soil aggregate stability is an important ... physical indicator of soil health, which protects organic matter accumulation, improves soil porosity, ...

  4. Late Summer Planting of Perennial Forages

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/late-summer-planting-perennial-forages

    summer weed emergence/growth, soil borne root rot and damping off disease organisms that thrive in cool, ... wet soils are usually not an issue, and there may be fewer competing farm tasks than in the spring. ... excellent choice to conserve soil moisture for good germination. Make sure that the field surface is ...

  5. Prepare to Evaluate Forage Stands for Winter Injury

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/prepare-evaluate-forage-stands-winter-injury

    growing season. We had some days with very cold air temperatures, but the soil temperatures have been much ... more moderate than you might expect. The soil temperature at the 2-inch depth is associated with the ... temperature of plant crowns. The coldest 2-inch soil temperatures recorded since January 1 at the Ohio State ...

  6. Avoid Driving on Wet Soils

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/avoid-driving-wet-soils

    wet soils from the heavy rains this past weekend across much of Ohio. While we are eager to get that ... first cutting made, haste will make waste if we drive on hay stands before the soils are firm enough to ... support the equipment. When we run hay equipment on soft soils, the wheel compaction damage to plant ...

  7. Do you have questions about cover crops on Prevented Planting acres? 

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/news/do-you-have-questions-about-cover-crops-prevented-planting-acres%C2%A0

    in the soil to replace nutrients washed out by all this rain.  Sarah Noggle, OSU Extension, Paulding ... Miller, Representative from Stewart Seeds:  Justin Petrosino, Representative from USDA-NRCS: Jim Hoorman, soil health. ...

  8. Lower First Cutting Hay Yields Are Being Reported

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/lower-first-cutting-hay-yields-are-being-reported

    noticeable differences in first cut yield among forage stands that differed in soil fertility status, cutting ...

  9. Active carbon and respiration tests can be used to assess soil organic matter dynamics

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/news/active-carbon-and-respiration-tests-can-be-used-assess-soil-organic-matter-dynamics

    relationship between two rapid and affordable soils tests that measure the soil active organic matter ... – a fraction of soil organic matter that has a shorter turnover time and the main driver of soil biological ... activity and nutrient availability. The team collected more than 1000 soil samples from farmers’ fields and ...

  10. Featured Podcast- "The Ground Beneath Our Feet"

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/news/featured-podcast-ground-beneath-our-feet

    discuss  State of the soils and how to save more of it? They discuss issues such as the current status, and ... future of America's soils, land degradation, and solutions for improving soil health and ensuring ... food security. Featured Guests are: Dr. Rattan Lal Distinguished Professor of Soil Science and ...

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