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Northmor Students Test Backyard Soil to Understand Agricultural Science

Kaitlyn Wasilewski, an agriculture education teacher at Northmor Local Schools in Galion, …

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Water quality

6 lessons

How does the production of corn affect water quality? How is water quality tested?

Soil and sustainability

12 lessons

How is farming a system? What are the inputs (fertilizer, pesticide, seed) and outputs (crop yield, emissions, runoff)? What impact does soil as a storage have on the consequences of these inputs and outputs?

Did you know?

Ohio is the seventh leading producer of corn in the United States.

In 2021, Ohio’s farmers harvested over 1,437 hectares of corn. That’s about 154,677,393 square feet of corn!

There are seven operational ethanol plants in Ohio.

33% of Ohio’s corn crop is used to make ethanol. Over 95% of all U.S. fuel contains 10% ethanol.

Edge-of-field testing is vital for environmental stewardship.

More than $1 million is being invested by Ohio’s agricultural organizations to conduct on-farm, edge-of-field testing to determine exactly how nutrients are getting into Ohio’s waterways.

The components of corn

A kernel of corn contains many nutrients, from water to carbohydrates. Investigate what makes up a kernel of corn.