Connections Newsletter : Summer 2019

Articles

  1. YuTube: Newly-minted Professor Yu ‘Gary’ Gao takes on new challenge – online video

    (Editor’s Note: The following is the latest in a series of feature stories highlighting The Ohio State University South Centers Staff)
    Bradford Sherman
    CFAES/OSU South Centers

    Dr. Yu “Gary” Gao has accomplished nearly everything professionally possible. He was the editor and co-author of a highly-cited and award-winning publication; he has established many successful programs over the years; and all the while he has been a mentor to, and helped launch the careers of, many young scientific minds.

Business

  1. South Centers’ Export Assistance Network participates in successful internship program

    Kelly O’Bryant
    Export Assistance and MEP Advisor

    Finding the time to focus on developing a new international market is a challenge for many small businesses. The Ohio State University South Centers SBDC Export Assistance Network participates in the Ohio Export Internship Program by placing export-focused interns within southeast Ohio regional companies.

Cooperatives

  1. Bauman, Gardner take on new roles with co-ops team

    Two familiar faces are filling new positions within the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Center for Cooperatives. Long-time South Centers employees Joy Bauman, now the Cooperative Development Specialist, and Charissa Gardner, the new Program Coordinator, have taken on new roles in the program.
     

Endeavor

  1. Open for Businesses: Endeavor Center has services to help start or grow a business

    Ryan Mapes
    Endeavor Center Manager

    Are you interested in starting a business, but not sure how to start?  Do you need to grow your existing business?  Do you just need office space?  
    Come visit the Endeavor Center and visit with one of our knowledgeable business development network staff to determine how we can help.  

Horticulture

  1. Produce auctions for the direct buying and selling of produce

    Brad Bergefurd
    Extension Educator Scioto County and OSU South Centers 
       
    Produce auctions are local aggregation points that facilitate small-scale fruit, flower, and vegetable farmer access to wholesale buyers from a broader geography. Buyers purchase lots from multiple farmers to fulfill wholesale demand, and then retail the product to the consumers.

  2. Dr. Jiuxing ‘Lulu’ Lu has joined Dr. Gary Gao’s Team at South Centers as a visiting scholar

    Dr. Gary Gao
    Professor and Extension Specialist

    Dr. Jiuxing “Lulu” Lu, an instructor of Horticulture from Henan Agricultural University in Zhengzhou, China, joined Dr. Gary Gao’s extension and research team in May.
     

  3. Building for Berries: New trellis systems installed at South Centers

    Ryan Slaughter
    Research Assistant

    Despite the summer heat, outdoor activities continue at the South Centers’ research plots.  Most recently, construction and installation began on trellises for our cultivar evaluation and demonstration plots for both blackberries on Rotatable Cross-arm Trellis (RCA) and our hardy kiwis.

Manufacturing

  1. Manufacturing Extension Partnership makes cybersecurity less daunting

    Cybersecurity requirements such as the DFARS 252.204-7012 clause or NIST 800-171 framework may sound daunting, but they don’t have to be.

    The Ohio MEP network has economically efficient solutions for Ohio small and medium enterprises, manufacturers, and government contractors looking to achieve cybersecurity compliance and/or increase their cyber hygiene.

    Consider these recent statistics*

Marketing

  1. Direct Marketing, partners collab to improve farmers market sustainability

    Christie Welch
    Direct Marketing Specialist

    OSU Direct Food & Agricultural Marketing Program Is collaborating with Cornell Cooperative Extension, Grow NY, and the Ohio Farmers Market Network to help farmers markets Improve their sustainability

    We see the word “sustainable” being used everywhere these days. It can be found on food packing, farm production methods, and even non-agricultural related businesses are touting that they are sustainable.  But what does that mean for you and your farmers’ market? 

SBDC

  1. Summer means SOACDF Grant season for SBDC

    Brad Bapst
    SBDC Director

    With the summer months quickly passing by, the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is busy serving the needs of clients in Southern Ohio.  
    One of the key services the center provides is assistance with applications to the Southern Ohio Agricultural and Community Development Foundation (SOACDF) for the Ag Development Grant and the Young Farmer Grant programs. 

SWBR

  1. OSU, ACIE support Academic, Research, and Extension programs abroad

    Dr. Rafiq Islam
    Soil, Water and Bioenergy Resources  
     
    A three-member delegation from The Ohio State University’s College of Food Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), including Dr. Rafiq Islam from OSU South Centers, Professor Renukaradhya Gourapura from Food Animal Health Research Program, and Beau Ingle from the International Program in Agriculture (IPA), visited Kazak National Agrarian University (KNAU) Almaty, Kazakhstan, as part of the grant from the American Councils of International Education (ACIE). 

  2. Visiting scholar Kateryna Chorna, of Ukraine, joins Soil and Water Program

    Dr. Rafiq Islam
    SWBR Program Leader

    Kateryna Chorna, of Ukraine, has recently joined the Soil, Water, and Bioenergy Resources Program as a short-term exchange scholar for a two-month period at The Ohio State University South Centers. 

  3. Islam delivers seminars, conducts grant writing workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine

    Dr. Rafiq Islam
    SWBR Program Leader

    Dr. Rafiq Islam, the Director of the Soil, Water, and Bioenergy Resources Program at OSU South Centers, recently visited Ukraine as part of the CRDF Global – Ukrainian Ministry of Education-funded US-Ukraine research project to meet and guide field researchers at the Askaniya State Agricultural Experimental Station, Institute of Irrigated Agriculture, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, Ukraine. 

  4. Ukrainian professors, scientists visit OSU for applied research and Extension collaboration

    Dr. Rafiq Islam
    Soil, Water and Bioenergy Resources   

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