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Ohio Spring Severe Weather Awareness Week - March 20-26, 2022
The Ohio Committee For Severe Weather Awareness along with the National Weather Service and Ohio Emergency Management Agency are promoting severe weather awareness and…
Conference Will Focus on Using Manure, Protecting Environment
Manure happens. And when it does, there are ways you can use it that help crops grow and yet also protect the environment. That’s the premise of Waste to Worth 2022, set for April 18–22 near Toledo,…
NIFA-Climate Hubs and Extension Award
Byrd Polar Researcher and OSU Extension Climate Specialist Aaron Wilson, in collaboration with Central State, University of Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Purdue, have teamed up with the Midwest…
15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice
Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses,…
Ohio Dealing with Cleanup from Several Storms Last Weekend
Though not in the heart of Tornado Alley, Ohio certainly deals with its fair share of severe weather. The season typically ramps up during May and June, but severe weather so far in 2021 has been…
Brood X cicadas singing, buzzing and circling trees in older wooded areas
The warm sunshine coaxed Brood X cicadas into fully emerging in the past week in parts of Ohio. The 17-year periodical cicadas, with orange wing veins and reddish-brown eyes, are chorusing, which is…
Head Scab Risk Low for Wheat
According to the FHB forecasting system (http://www.wheatscab.psu.edu/), the risk for head scab is low across the state of Ohio for wheat flowering (anthesis) today, May 24, and over the next three…
You need weather records to go along with those fertilizer application records
Ohio's Country Ag Journal advertises the Byrd Center's FARM (Field Application Resource Monitor). With planting under way, a couple of reminders. Keep fertilizer application records to…
Open Letter to Emergency Preparedness Planners and Public Health Practitioners in Ohio
May 8, 2020 An Open Letter to Emergency Preparedness Planners and Public Health Practitioners in Ohio Extreme heat is the #1 weather-related killer, particularly in urban areas throughout the…