OARDC Report newsletter: July-August 2015

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  1. Food security? ‘We have to have water security first or there is no food’

    OARDC’s 2015 Annual Research Conference, which took place in April, featured 11 speakers on a theme of “Water Quality: Sustaining a Vital Resource” [w/video] ...

  2. Summer or winter, ice wine from Ohio is hot (there’s science behind it)

    For two straight years now, ice wines from northeast Ohio’s Grand River Valley wine region have won the top award for dessert wine in the largest American wine competition in the world ...

  3. Spent foundry sand’s second life: OK to use in some soils

    A study by two OARDC scientists played a key role in a recent health and environmental risk assessment of reusing spent foundry sands, or SFS, in certain soil-related uses ...

  4. How climate change has cost U.S. soybean growers $11 billion, and what can be done about it

    Precipitation and temperature variations over the past 20 years have suppressed the U.S. average soybean yield gain by nearly a third, representing a loss to the industry of $11 billion nationally ...

  5. Martin to lead Field to Faucet water program, has ‘ability to bring people together’

    The new Field to Faucet effort, with OARDC scientist Jay Martin at its helm, aims to ensure safe water for all Ohioans while keeping farming productive and profitable [w/video] ...

  6. 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...