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  1. Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Your Home, Where Giant Buffalo Once Roamed (for the Week of Sept. 2, 2007)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/smart-stuff-twig-walkingstick-your-home-where-giant-buffalo-once-roamed-week-sept-2-0

    our home, North America! All on land that you live on today — maybe even your own backyard! Imagine ... August 29, 2007 Q. Dear Twig: The mammoth. The mastodon. The saber-toother tiger. Where ... 'd they live? Where'd they go? A.: They lived in North America (and, in some cases, in other places, ...

  2. Family Fundamentals: Help new parents feel more confident in selves (June 2012)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/family-fundamentals-help-new-parents-feel-more-confident-selves-june-2012

    realize that your son and daughter-in-law may be gathering more information about parenting than you know. ... always direct them to free parenting resources that are readily available online through our land ... June 18, 2012 My son and daughter-in-law are expecting their first baby. They seem to be focusing ...

  3. Family Fundamentals: Do Your Homework When You Invest for Retirement (August 2005)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/family-fundamentals-do-your-homework-when-you-invest-retirement-august-2005

    but where can I find trustworthy information? Lots of places have good, sound family finance and ... investment advice, but here are a few guidelines to help you get started. First, ask around at your ... services offer information you can read and review at home. For example, one in-depth course, ...

  4. Estimate: A New Amish Community is Founded Every 3.5 Weeks in U.S.

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/estimate-new-amish-community-founded-every-35-weeks-us

    1990. This pattern suggests the Amish are growing more rapidly than most other religions in the United ... will buy up land vacated by farmers in rural areas close to community services, but the availability of ... jobs such as woodworking and construction trades, which could affect land prices and potentially ...

  5. Ohio State Announces New Network for Environmental Professionals: 'Most Issues Today Need Multidisciplinary Solutions'

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-state-announces-new-network-environmental-professionals-most-issues-today-need

    Environmental Professionals Network, which launched on Aug. 7, “is for a broad range of people who are ... really should be connected but often are not, and sometimes are even at odds,” said Hanselmann, who is ... network is free. Students, too, are welcome. Participants can register by going to the network’s website ...

  6. Ohio Pasture Management Project Gives Livestock Farmers Guidance on Grazing

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-pasture-management-project-gives-livestock-farmers-guidance-grazing

    Extension offers livestock producers detailed information on how fast pasture fields are growing statewide, ... stand in terms of forage, they are better able to decide where to go from there. Having the database ... providing detailed, up-to-date information on pasture growth to help producers make better management ...

  7. 300-Bushel Corn? Learn More at the Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/300-bushel-corn-learn-more-conservation-tillage-and-technology-conference-0

    advances in genetics farmers have available to them for clues as to where we will be headed with corn ... production and where we can achieve high corn yields," said Peter Thomison, an Ohio State University ... which includes information on fertility, weed control, fungicides, geography, soil types and water ...

  8. Miscanthus Being Evaluated as Potential Ohio Biomass Crop

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/miscanthus-being-evaluated-potential-ohio-biomass-crop

    said Brown. "There are plenty of opportunities to grow the crop on marginal land, land enrolled in ... conservation programs, and land not suited for corn or soybean production." For more information, contact ... biomass crop. Ohio State University Extension researchers at OSU South Centers at Piketon are studying the ...

  9. OSU Sustainable Ag Tour offers up-close look at alternative production systems

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/osu-sustainable-ag-tour-offers-close-look-alternative-production-systems

    economy, the environment and social structure when farming, he said. “In production agriculture, if you are ... people to experience what alternative production systems are all about from farmers themselves, said Alan ... Agriculture Team. Organic and ecological farms are the focus of the tour, he said, noting that the main goal ...

  10. 'Operation: Military Kids' Brings Kids, Parents to Campus

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/operation-military-kids-brings-kids-parents-campus

    instructors are really enjoying themselves," Wilson said. "When you're a student-athlete at ... event, where about 65 children ages 5-12 spent the day doing athletic activities with 12 Ohio State ... Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, where they attended a STRONG Family Workshop conducted by the ...

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