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2/28/2005 Calendar of Events
2/27/2005 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Vomit Holly (for the Week of Feb. 27, 2005) Dear Twig: My Uncle Mark sent me an e-mail. He said there’s a plant called vomit holly. Was he kidding me or what?
2/25/2005 Chow Line: Dietary Guidelines: Choose carbs wisely (for 3/6/05) What do the new Dietary Guidelines say about carbs?
2/25/2005 OSU Organic Farming Research, Local Food are Topics March 28 in Solon SOLON, Ohio — Ohio State University’s six-year-old organic farming program — what it’s learned, where it’s headed. And ways to cut the distance between the food you eat and the farmers who grow it. Those are the topics on Monday, March 28, as Ohio State’s Organic Food and Farming Education and Research (OFFER) program hosts its first monthly talk of 2005 at the Mustard Seed Market & Café, Solon.
2/24/2005 OSU Organic Farming Program Sets 2005 Mustard Seed Talks SOLON, Ohio — Ohio State University’s organic farming program is once again sponsoring a series of lectures at the Mustard Seed Market & Café — this year at the Solon location, Uptown Solon Shopping Center, 6025 Kruse Dr.
2/23/2005 OSU Experts Among Speakers at March 5-6 Organic Farming Conference JOHNSTOWN, Ohio — Rotational grazing. Extending the growing season. Weed control and cover crops. Selecting corn hybrids for organic systems. Ohio State University scientists are among the dozens of speakers slated for the 2005 Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) conference March 5-6 in Johnstown, Ohio, and those are some of the topics they’ll cover.
2/22/2005 Forgotten Corn Diseases Making a Comeback COLUMBUS, Ohio — While all attention turns to soybean rust, a long forgotten issue is slowly creeping its way back into crop fields. And Ohio State University agricultural specialists say it’s time growers start to take notice.
2/22/2005 Soybean Rust Meetings to Prepare Growers COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Soybean Association is sponsoring three soybean rust workshops to educate and prepare producers for the upcoming growing season, which will be held in western Ohio the early part of March. Anne Dorrance, an Ohio State University plant pathologist with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Ohio, will be one of the scheduled speakers.
2/18/2005 Unlocking the Secret of Avian Flu WOOSTER, Ohio — In January 2004, Ohio State University virologist and veterinarian Mo Saif was summoned by the owners of a turkey farm in western Ohio to try to figure out what was afflicting their flock. He did. It was an H3N2 influenza virus, a pathogen detected since 1998 in North American swine and humans, but never in turkeys.
2/17/2005 Chow Line: Dietary Guidelines: Eat less saturated fat (for 2/27/05) How do I know if I'm eating too much saturated fat?
2/15/2005 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Wahoo Bush (for the Week of Feb. 20, 2005) Dear Twig: My dad says there’s a bush called wahoo. True?
2/11/2005 Chow Line: Focus on produce, whole grains, milk (for 2/20/05) Do the new Dietary Guidelines tell us exactly what to eat?
2/11/2005 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Poisonous Elderberry (for the Week of Feb. 13, 2005) Dear Twig: Please get to the details about elderberries that you promised — about how some parts are poisonous, eh?
2/8/2005 Soybean Rust Next to Impossible to Predict WOOSTER, Ohio — With soybean rust now confirmed in eight southern states, the question on most minds is will the disease strike Ohio, and if so, when?
2/6/2005 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Smell of Elderberries (for the Week of Feb. 6, 2005) Dear Twig: My older brother teases me. He says I “smell of elderberries.” Hmm. So what are elderberries? And what do they smell like anyway?
2/4/2005 Chow Line: Guidelines say, 'Get moving!' Why do the 2005 Dietary Guidelines contain a section on physical activity? What does that have to do with good nutrition?
2/2/2005 Survey Says: Ohio Consumers Willing to Pay for Organics COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio consumers are willing to pay a premium for organic foods, but such factors as health, food safety, level of organic ingredients and where buyers shop impact just how much, according to a series of Ohio State University Extension surveys.
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