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News for: 05/01/2004 - 6/01/2004
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5/28/2004 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: City Pigeons (for the Week of June 6, 2004) Dear Twig: Why do pigeons sit on statues? And why do they hang around cities in the first place? It seems like they make a mess.
5/28/2004 New Farm Science Review Manager Named LONDON, Ohio - With a straw hat and a handshake, the next manager of Ohio State University's Farm Science Review was announced.
5/26/2004 Chow Line: Weigh fish advisories against fish benefits (for 6/6/04) We usually eat a lot of fish in summer. Some of it we catch ourselves. Should we cut back?
5/24/2004 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: June Beetles (for the Week of May 23, 2004) Dear Twig: Last night, a big, flying bug bonked me right in the head. Ow! It fell to the ground, landed on its back and wiggled its legs in the air. Tell me I wasnt dreaming.
5/23/2004 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Goat Meat (for the Week of May 16, 2004) Dear Twig: Whats chevon? I saw it for sale at a market. It was some sort of meat from an animal, but thats really all I could tell.
5/21/2004 Chow Line: No lovage lost with home-grown herb (for 5/30/04) I was at a nursery a while back and came across a package of seeds for an herb called "lovage." I had never heard of it before. What is it?
5/20/2004 Secrest Arboretum is Place for Friends to Grow WOOSTER, OhioWith spring in full swing, Secrest Arboretum is blooming with plants, programs and support from Friends of Secrest Arboretum. From gardening activities to special arboretum events, theres a lot to do and gain from the 115-acre research arboretum located on the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Centers Wooster campus.
5/14/2004 Chow Line: Don't be sorry; keep picnic foods safe (for 5/23/04) It's picnic season. What do we need to do to make sure we don't make ourselves sick?
5/13/2004 Rotten Tomatoes? Organic Disease Management Talk is May 19 at Mustard Seed in Akron AKRON, Ohio -- Rotten tomatoes -- from the speaker, not the audience -- will be on stage at the next organic-farming lecture at the Mustard Seed Market & Caf Montrose, Wednesday, May 19, 6:30 p.m.
5/7/2004 Manure Management: Many Options, 'No Silver Bullet' COLUMBUS, Ohio -- They say manure flows downhill. But Jon Rausch and colleagues are working to make sure that doesn't happen on Ohio's livestock farms.
5/7/2004 Chow Line: Take guidelines with just one grain of salt (for 5/16/04) My family says I put too much salt on my food, but my blood pressure is fine. Do I really need to cut back?
5/7/2004 Make Hay to the Southeastern Ohio Hay Day June 19 BELLE VALLEY, Ohio -- If you are foraging for the latest information on baling equipment and hay production methods, visit the seventh annual Southeastern Ohio Hay Day June 19 at the Eastern Agricultural Research Station in Belle Valley.
5/7/2004 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Birds' Nest Soup (for the Week of May 9, 2004) Dear Twig: Why do they call it birds nest soup? Is it really made out of birds nests?
5/4/2004 Grad Students Honored at OARDC Annual Conference WOOSTER, Ohio -- Exemplary graduate-student research was honored at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Centers (OARDC) 2004 annual conference April 29 in Wooster. Winners of an annual poster competition were announced -- the posters summarizing projects and findings -- as were the recipients of three associateships.
5/4/2004 OARDC Names Junior, Senior, Krauss Research Winners WOOSTER, Ohio -- Animal scientist Wayne Bacon, plant pathologist Sophien Kamoun and doctoral graduate Gitta Laurel Coaker were honored for their achievements during the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Centers (OARDC) 2004 annual conference April 29 in Wooster.
5/4/2004 New Soybeans Earn $100 Million, OARDC Innovation Award WOOSTER, Ohio -- New food-type soybean varieties earn Ohio farmers an estimated $100 million a year. Now those beans have earned something else for the forward-thinking scientists who developed them: the 2004 OARDC Directors Innovator of the Year Award.
5/3/2004 Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Chicago Parrots (for the Week of May 2, 2004) Dear Twig: My parents and I went to Chicago. We saw a flock of wild parrots there. Weird! What were they? And dont they freeze their beaks off in winter?
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