Recent Posts in Advance Wayne County Agriculture

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Casey W. Hoy Jan 21, 11:11am

We'd encourage you to nework through localfoodsystems.org to develop proposals for this important opportunity in the agricultural biosciences.

Sent on behalf of USDA Ohio Rural Development State Director J. Anthony Logan
Contact: Heather Hartley, Public Affairs Office 614-255-2394

 

USDA Invites Applications for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects

 

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Brian Gwin Jan 17, 8:45pm

Announced this past week is a CIG opportunity focused on nutrient trading programs. http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/home

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Brian Gwin Nov 16, 10:59am

The Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center is featuring an "Economics of Using and Transporting Manure" Webinar this Friday, November 18th.

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Brian Gwin Sep 23, 8:52am

Ag Success Team Members,

 

On October 5th, WEDC will be hosting its Agricultural Tour for Business and Industry. This year's route, while within a compact geography, is filled with cutting edge R&D, entrepreneurial activities and value added agricultural processing. Please encourage key clients, organizational leaders and business partners to attend with you.

Brian, John and Tom.

 

WEDC Ag Tour

October 5, 2011

Starts at  7:30 am meet in the OARDC Fisher Parking Lot

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Brian Gwin Aug 11, 1:26pm

Follow this link to a recent video which includes OARDC's BioEnergy Lab and Touchstone Research Lab. The content starts at about 3:30 in the video. You will also catch a glimpse of some of quasar's pilot scale digesters.

 

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgPpOHO5I5Q

OARDC BioEnergy Lab http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/bioenergy/pageview.asp?id=1170 

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Steve Bosserman Jan 25, 6:07pm

Pinakin Desai of Memes Associates is producing a series of process flow maps with support from the USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative, the Fund for Our Economic Future of NE Ohio, and John Deere.

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Casey W. Hoy Dec 22, 4:32pm

In a recent press release from the Ohio Department of Development, awards were announced for farm and food waste to energy, several connected with the Agricultural Bioscience Industry Cluster in NE Ohio.  These are excellent examples of our region's growth potential from within, connecting many locally owned enterprises into business ecosystems that minimize waste, provide for our most basic needs like food and energy, and build wealth that stays in NE Ohio.  Congratulations to the awardees, especially those most directly connected to food and agriculture...

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Casey W. Hoy Oct 21, 4:19pm

Many of you have been interested in the maps that are being generated as a result of our project for the Fund for Our Economic Future, "Catalyzing and Agricultural and Bioscience Industry Cluster in Northeast Ohio".  The maps are currently being posted on the Agroecosystems Management Program website at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster.