This report was prepared by Keith
Dix as part of the Ohio Pesticide
Use Reduction Project, a joint
effort by Citizens Policy Center,
Rivers Unlimited, and Innovative
Farmers of Ohio. The Ohio Pesticide
Use Reduction Project has received
the generous financial support
of the Joyce Foundation, the
W. Alton Jones Foundation, and
the George Gund Foundation. Citizens
Policy Center is
the non-profit research and
education affiliate of Ohio
Citizen Action. The Center
examines economic and environmental
changes from the perspective
of daily life in Ohio, and
proposes practical policy solutions
to citizens groups, businesses,
and governmental leaders.
Rivers
Unlimited, founded
in 1972, is the nation's oldest
statewide river protection
organization. It exists to
restore, maintain, and improve
Ohio's rivers and streams,
their water quality and scenic
beauty, their multiple economic
and environmental uses and
their effect upon Ohio's quality
of life.
The Innovative
Farmers of Ohio is dedicated to promoting,
through research, education
and community-building activities,
an agriculture that preserves
and strengthens the economic,
social and environmental well-being
of Ohio's farms, farm families
and rural communities and protects
and improves the health and
productivity of Ohio's lands
and waterways.
Keith
Dix, Ph.D., owns and
operates a certified organic
farm in Ashland County on which
he grows vegetables and grazes
registered Jersey replacement
heifers. He is a retired Associate
Professor for the West Virginia
University Extension, Center
for Sustainable Agriculture,
and serves as Program Coordinator
for the Innovative Farmers
of Ohio.
The author thanks the farmers
who shared their knowledge
and time to produce this report. |
