Greenleaf board member, Dr. Warren Dick and his colleagues, Dr. David Kost and Joe Nester, published this article in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation on reducing phosphorus runoff in the Western Lake Erie Basin with gypsum as a soil amendment. In addition to water quality benefits, gypsum provides calcium and sulfur to plants. […]
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Greenleaf Advisors and Greenleaf Communities November Newsletter
The Greenleaf team brings together people to deliver sustainable solutions for the productive use of land, water, material and energy resources that sustain us all.
Continue readingGreenleaf Team visits agricultural sites
This Monday, John Andersen and Katie DeMuro traveled to Bryan, Ohio to visit the Ohio gypsum project team including NesterAg, The Ohio State University, GYPSOIL and the USDA ARS.
Continue readingInnovation Drives Sustainable Solutions
Turn on an electronic switch, and a myriad of services flows our way – increasingly from sustainable energy sources that are being delivered to us in intelligent fashion – just ask our colleagues at Intelligent Generation or GreenCity Power who deliver clean affordable power to customers as profiled below.
Continue readingDr. Warren Dick presents on gypsum webinars
The webinar, “Building Profitability and Protecting Water Quality through Gypsum”, was hosted by the Partnership for Ag Resource Management on December 15, 2015. Dr. Warren Dick, professor of soil and environmental science at The Ohio State University, presented on the current state of the science on the effectiveness and applicability of gypsum as a soil amendment. Cory Schurman, National Sales Manager from Gypsoil, discussed the value gypsum offers to growers through improved productivity and sustainability.
Continue readingGreenleaf Summer Update
It takes a long time for an ecosystem to develop, as well as to decline. They lose vitality gradually, until after years of abuse the damage becomes impossible to ignore. Sustainable solutions can take a long time to develop as well.
Continue readingGreenleaf Advisors and Partners Present Webinar: “Gypsum as an Agricultural Soil Amendment” to The Nature Conservancy
Greenleaf partners, Dr. Warren Dick of The Ohio State University, Ron Chamberlain of GYPSOIL, and Joe Nester of NesterAg, presented to The Nature Conservancy this week on the use of gypsum as an agricultural soil amendment and its environmental benefits.
Continue readingNew Research Identifies Tool to Mitigate Phosphorus
Updated May 14, 2015 Calcium Sulfate (gypsum) soil amendment reduces SRP loading by over 50% Nutrient runoff from agricultural fields is one source of pollution that impacts the integrity of our waterways and the quality of our critical water resources. Fertilizers and animal manures are important sources of the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. These help […]
Continue readingGreenleaf client wins business innovation award
Greenleaf’s client and collaborator, Indianapolis Power & Light, won a business innovation award for the presentation Use of Synthetic Gypsum from Flue Gas Desulfurization Process as an Agricultural Soil Amendment at the World Congress of the AES Corporation.
Continue readingHealthy soil management for healthy crops and healthy water resources
Field selection is underway with farm cooperators in the Maumee basin of Lake Erie and Grand Lake St. Marys watershed in Ohio where research is being led by Dr. Warren Dick of The Ohio State University in cooperation with agronomists from Gypsoil and Nester Ag Consultants, supported by funding from the Electric Power Research Institute.
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