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Why is ethanol so important today? Participants at the Ohio Corn & Wheat sponsored Focus on energy and ethanol workshop heard about ethanol’s benefits from industry experts. John Settlemyre, Ohio corn farmer, Ohio Corn & Wheat President, and National Corn Growers Association Ethanol Action Team member, spoke about his role as an ethanol …

DNA extraction—how can we make this activity even better? Challenge students to develop their own protocol for the procedure! Feed the World educator Heather Bryan led a group of 14 science teachers through this lesson at the Science Education Council of Ohio’s 2023 Science Symposium. Participants were tasked with creating a protocol for …

(from Bayer.com news ) How do we grow enough to feed and fuel the world around us? Could we create a more sustainable, healthy and resilient food system while helping farmers create better harvests with less land, water and energy? We believe we can. And we believe that work starts before the seed even reaches the soil. On a farm, the challenges …

Feed the World was part of this workshop, sharing about ethanol as a renewable fuel with area teachers. Lead educator Heather led a discussion on the importance of agriculture in the creation of biofuels such as ethanol and renewable diesel. “The teachers had a lot of great questions about ethanol blends and their use in modern vehicles. We also …

What does soil need to be healthy and produce abundant crops? This week’s virtual field trip to Sunrise Cooperative tackled those topics and more! “We’re figuring out more about what is happening under our feet—anything we can do to help that microbiome produce more corn,” Sunrise’s Jonah Johnson, Soils Agronomist and Progressive Crop Technology …

Twenty teachers from rural Ohio districts dug deep into agriculture-related learning recently, thanks to support from a grant from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and support from Educationprojects.org and Battelle. The cohort spent a day at the Waterman Farm Agricultural and Natural Resources Lab on the OSU campus, then …

Fort Jennings educator and FTW alumni educator Jeff Jostpille shared the Race to Reach Net Zero ethanol virtual field trip with his students. 68 8th grade science and 10th grade biology students gathered for the VFT. “We will be getting into cellular respiration and fermentation in biology in a month or so,” Jostpille said. “I used this as a …

23 Ohio teachers spent the day at the park, thanks to Ohio Corn & Wheat and the Ohio Soybean Council. The day began with a mixer, then focused on soil health. Soil structure and biodiversity are important to maintain soil health. The slake test indicates soil stability, structure, and biodiversity. A mesofauna biodiversity investigation …