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  1. $1 Million Grant Furthering Efforts to Eliminate Food Crisis in Africa

    Programs in Agriculture is sharing a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) African Food ... development in Uganda, an East African nation. The commodities being targeted include rice, maize, plantains ... 80 percent of its labor force engaged in small-farm agriculture. To get the economy moving, we have ...

  2. $1 Million Study Tackles Role of Viruses in Safety of Fresh Produce

    of horticulture and crop science and produce specialist for OSU Extension based at OARDC in Wooster, ... Viruses and Food Safety," to be taught in Ohio State's Department of Food Science and Technology ... the classroom and the field. Fresh produce is at high risk of being contaminated by noroviruses. ...

  3. $320,000 Tractor Donated; Another on the Way

    Agricultural Center, home to Ohio State's Farm Science Review, near London, Ohio, to get some hands-on ... January 19, 2012 Agricultural Systems Management program to benefit COLUMBUS, Ohio-- It's not ... Engineering. The tractor will be used for research and teaching, primarily with students in the Agricultural ...

  4. $5 Million Bioenergy, Bioproducts Project Offers Opportunities for Ohio Teachers

    program at any site. Applicants who are not selected for participation in 2011 are eligible to be put on ... development programs for teachers. A six-week Train-the-Trainer program in which two applicants will be ... selected to attend a workshop at Cornell to be trained on a suite of laboratory kits and workbooks and ...

  5. $5 Million Third Frontier Grant to Advance Granule Technology

    agricultural industries.   The Andersons, Inc. will be leading an Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center project to ... Agricultural Research and Development Center and Ohio State University Extension will provide scientists to ... are proud to be a leader in this project." Other collaborators of the project include: Syngenta ...

  6. $6M Announced for Reconstruction of Tornado-stricken Building on Ohio State's Wooster Campus

    August 31, 2012 WOOSTER, Ohio-- The state of Ohio's Office of Budget and Management has ... allocated $6 million in emergency funds to assist with the reconstruction of a building at ... legislature.   The State Controlling Board is expected to approve the $6 million appropriation at its Sept. 10 ...

  7. 'An Ohio State Story': Lab Idea Yields 60 Local Jobs, New Green Industry

    being turned into polyurethane foam. But he was more fascinated by the story of how this factory came to ... glycerin produced annually by the U.S. biodiesel industry. And in addition to being renewable and biodegradable, ... October 5, 2012 MANSFIELD, Ohio-- Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee liked what he saw ...

  8. 'Corn University' to Examine Possibility of 300 Bushel Corn

    session will be followed by a panel discussion to wrap up the day. The Conservation Tillage and Technology ... Thomison said. That bodes well for the future, particularly if yields continue to increase at three or more ... presentation, "300 bushels/acre by 2030: A certainty? A possibility? Or science fiction?" at Corn ...

  9. 'Environmental Stewardship and You': OSU Professor, Author to Speak This Friday (1/28)

    people’s relationship to the land, including the role of politics, will speak on the subject this Friday ... Ohio State’s Department of Horticulture and Crop Science. Call 614-292-2011 for more information. ... Hetchy and Yosemite National Park (Pantheon Books, 2005); Yearning for the Land: A Search for Homeland in ...

  10. 'Food, Faith and a Sustainable Future': Talk This Wednesday (3/30) at OSU

    at 6:30 p.m. plus free tomato and lettuce plants for participating. The program is the first in the ... information, contact Ohio State’s Greg Hitzhusen at 614-292-7739 or  hitzhusen.3@osu.edu  or go to ... philosophy professor Tamar Rudavsky will moderate.  There will be free organic tapas and local food samples ...

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