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News for: 01/01/2005 - 2/01/2005
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1/30/2005 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Name That Robin (for the Week of Jan. 30, 2005) Dear Twig: Last week you told us the scientific name of the American robin is Turdus migratorius. Pffff, you expect us to believe that?
1/28/2005 Chow Line: Guidelines focus on weight for a reason (for 2/6/05) Am I imagining it, or do the 2005 Dietary Guidelines focus quite a bit on weight control?
1/27/2005 Ohio's Water to Be Safer, Cleaner with New Household Wastewater Rules COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio is flush with septic tanks and other on-site wastewater treatment systems. In fact, more than a million such systems dot the landscape across the state, and the number continues to climb.
1/27/2005 Timing of Soybean Rust May Impact Soybean Aphid Control WOOSTER, Ohio — Soybean growers are bracing for a soybean aphid population explosion this growing season, and controlling the pest could become even more challenging if soybean rust is thrown into the mix of management practices.
1/23/2005 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Winter Robins (for the Week of Jan. 23, 2005) Dear Twig: OK, it’s still just the middle of winter, but there’s a big flock of robins in a tree outside. What gives?
1/21/2005 Chow Line: New guidelines give food for thought (for 1/30/05) I saw on the news that the 2005 Dietary Guidelines were released. What's new?
1/19/2005 Survey: Interest Strong in Locally Grown Foods COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohioans' support for local and organic foods reaches into their wallet -- at least sometimes.
1/18/2005 Media Advisory: Israeli Agriculture Officials to Visit OARDC, Talk About Biosecurity Tuesday, Jan. 25 WOOSTER, Ohio -- Yitzhak Hadar, dean of the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Mordehai Cohen, the Israeli agricultural and science attaché for the United States, Canada and Mexico, will visit the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center's (OARDC) Wooster campus on Tuesday, Jan. 25.
1/14/2005 In-Furrow Applicator Cuts Chemical Costs in Vegetable Crops URBANA, Ohio — Nothing is cheap when it comes to growing high-value vegetable crops, including the chemical investment for insect and disease management.
1/14/2005 Chow Line: Lots of foods good for vitamin C content Do oranges have the most vitamin C of any food?
1/14/2005 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Backyard Maple Syrup (for the Week of Jan. 16, 2005) Dear Twig: Can I make syrup from the maple trees in my yard?
1/13/2005 Ohioans Show Concern About Obesity, Water Quality Issues COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Rising obesity rates among Americans and pollution of rivers and streams top the list of Ohioans' food-, farm- and environmental concerns, according to the second biennial Ohio Survey of Food, Agriculture and Environmental issues.
1/12/2005 A Little Cunning May Do the Trick in Pepper Management WOOSTER, Ohio — The trick to outsmarting insects and diseases on peppers may lie in the way chemicals are applied to the vegetable crop.
1/9/2005 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Crane-berries? (for the Week of Jan. 9, 2005) Dear Twig: Why are cranberries called cranberries?
1/7/2005 Chow Line: Too much water possible, but unlikely (for 1/16/05) I’ve been drinking more water lately, probably more than two liters a day. Is it possible to drink too much water?
1/5/2005 Ohio State Entomologists Help Farmers and Promote Safer Pest Control in Ecuador WOOSTER, Ohio -- Something has been bugging the farming communities of northern Ecuador for many years now: tiny but voracious beetles that prey on corn and bean crops and on the farmers' hopes for a better future. Thousands of miles away, the insects are also bugging Ohio State University researcher Roger Williams.
1/5/2005 New Conference Workshop to Focus on Ag. Ventures TOLEDO, Ohio — A new workshop targeted at ventures in agricultural production and marketing will be offered at the Ohio Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Congress, being held Jan. 19-21 at the Toledo Seagate Convention Centre and Radisson Hotel in Toledo, Ohio.
1/4/2005 Minimizing Compaction of Vegetable Crops Tricky COLUMBUS, Ohio — Controlling compaction in field crops is not easy, but minimizing compaction in vegetable crops is even trickier.
1/2/2005 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Chickadees (for the Week of Jan. 2, 2005) Dear Twig: Please tell me more about chickadees. They visit my mother’s bird feeder. They’re cute li’l goobers!
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