The Ohio State University is a public land-grant university in Columbus, Ohio, established by the state legislature in 1870. Its College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) combines teaching, research and Ohio State University Extension, and reports 3,035 undergraduate and graduate students.
CFAES says its facilities team cares for 11,199 acres and about 875 sites across Ohio. These include CFAES Wooster, home to Ohio State ATI; seven agricultural research stations; the 2,100-acre Molly Caren Agricultural Center near London, Ohio, which hosts the annual Farm Science Review; and the Waterman Lab. College centres include the Center for Soybean Research, the Center for Food Animal Health, the Ohio Controlled Environment Agriculture Center and the Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration, known as the Lal Carbon Center. On 18 May 2026 CFAES reported that Ohio State and Wageningen University & Research had established a partnership on controlled environment agriculture.