OARDC Report newsletter: July-August 2014

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  1. This was the polar express: ‘Worst grape damage on record in Ohio’

    There’s the cold you need to make ice wine. Then there’s the arctic, subzero, double-polar-vortex cold that deep-froze Ohio last winter. Which wasn’t good for the state’s wine grapes at all ...

  2. Recent paper: States’ renewable energy standards work — they help cut carbon emissions

    New research finds that state-level implementation of renewable portfolio standards in the U.S. reduced national carbon emissions by 4 percent in 2010, with more substantial reductions expected in the future ...

  3. Teaming up with farmers to protect Ohio’s water

    Work continues on a project to revise the Ohio Phosphorus Risk Index. The index is a planning tool that farmers use to predict phosphorus runoff from their fields ...

  4. About us

    Funding support for OARDC comes in part from an Ohio legislature line-item appropriation and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture...

  5. Deadly pig virus is now in Ohio: Key is strict biosecurity

    Experts first found porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PEDv, in the U.S. just a little more than a year ago. Since then it has caused major losses on hog farms across the country ...

  6. Tsetse team: Pitching in to crack genetic code of deadly fly

    A 10-year international project whose participants included an OARDC scientist and his labmates has made the cover of one of the world’s top scientific journals ...