Agroecosystems Management Program (AMP)

08/25/2026

Have your registered yet for the 20th Annual Stinner Summit? We'll be back at Malabar Farm State Park with a great local foods lunch to fuel your ideas on this years' theme. Learn more or register at https://amp.osu.edu/news/20th-annual-stinner-summit-september-18-2026

08/17/2026

08/17/2026

Join Ohio State University Extension's Erika Lyon for a Lunch & Learn on culinary mushrooms Tuesday, August 25 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.!

Learn how to grow culinary mushrooms on hardwood logs in this hands-on workshop. Participants will drill, inoculate, and take home their own shiitake logs while learning the basics of outdoor cultivation.

Register to attend by Thursday, August 20 at https://cfaes.osu.edu/event/lunch-and-learn-growing-culinary-mushrooms-logs.

School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University

08/14/2026

Resources for orchard and vineyard managers dealing with flooding.

By Melanie L. Lewis Ivey Flooding can cause more than short-term crop losses. When water remains in an orchard or vineyard for an extended period, trees and grapevines may decline or die, creating …

08/14/2026

See what our From The Ground Up Project interns did this summer to help farmers with their on-farm research projects!

08/12/2026

Did you know Ohio State has been running a long-term no-tillage research plot for more than 6 decades? It's one of the longest running ag experiments in the U.S. Come over to Wooster and see what we've learned. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decades-of-no-till-history-and-the-future-of-soil-health-aug-18-2026-tickets-1992930001282?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true

You're invited to walk through the historic Triplett-Vann Doren no-till research plots and experience the results of 64 years of continuous no-till and crop diversification research on August 18 at the CFAES Wooster Campus. Register today at https://ohionotillcouncil.com/2026/06/18/aug-18-2026-historic-no-till-research/. Program cost is $20.

08/11/2026

Check out this short video overview of our From The Ground Up Project event at the Trotwood Community Center Farm. We love partnering with this vibrant group of urban growers and the Central State University 1890 Land-Grant Programs educators who support them. Lots of good things are happening here, including farmer-led research on cover crops!

08/11/2026

We're continuing to celebrate farmer leadership in the From the Ground Up project. Each FTGUp farmer is leading agricultural research to improve the performance of conservation practices on real, working farms.

Meet Shane Hartzler! Shane is a dairy farmer at Cross Roads Dairy in Rittman, Ohio.



Ohio State - College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, Lincoln University College of Agriculture, Environmental and Human Sciences, Central State University, Mizzou College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Solutions from the Land

08/10/2026

Over the next month, we're highlighting the voices that help bridge the gap between university science and on-farm conservation practices and why farmer leadership in research is so important to that goal.

Meet From The Ground Up's Project Director, Dr. Douglas Jackson-Smith!

Doug is a Professor and the Kellogg Chair of Agroecosystem Management at the Ohio State University and he farms sheep in Northeast Ohio.



Ohio State - College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University, Agroecosystems Management Program (AMP)

08/05/2026

Join us Thursday, August 6, 2026, 12-1 p.m. Eastern Time. Drop in and talk about ideas, trial designs, or ask questions about our upcoming farm events. Zoom link: go.osu.edu/organic_research