Latest Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center Stories

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Axiom Marketing, Inc., was recently awarded a contract to help promote open access science for the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, OH. The Center is a research extension of The Ohio State University. The Libertyville, IL, based company's role in the project is led by Jeffrey D. Clausing, Senior Vice President, Strategic Solutions. The opportunity to work with the prestigious university research center...

Festive cookies, served at year-end holiday gatherings, may in the future be made with a larger proportion of whole-grain flour instead of familiar, highly refined white flour. That's a goal of ongoing studies by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Wooster, Ohio. A study by scientists with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Soft Wheat Quality Research Unit in Wooster was published earlier this year in Crop Science. The research may help plant breeders zero in on...

By CHRIS KICK By CHRIS KICK Staff Writer WOOSTER -- Our agricultural scene is in revolution. The past year, fuel prices, compounded with fuel production from crops and a growing world population have changed nearly all aspects of crop and livestock production in ways never before seen. The sale price for cereal crops, including wheat, corn and oats has doubled and in some cases tripled, setting off a domino effect across the agricultural scene and into the consumer market. A bushel of...