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Teen moves Harrison County into spotlight with Ohio State Fair win
At this year’s Ohio State Fair, Kaci Carter, Cadiz, Ohio, put Harrison County on the map, and the county’s residents rallied to support her in return.
Ohio crops are late, but improving
The casual view from the windshield is of good crops. The reality is that we are very late, however, and that exposes us to less yield and fears of maturity. A frost scare the end of September would change things a lot.
Ask FSA Andy by FSA Andy
Hello Again! Happy belated Fourth of July to all. Here are some neat tidbits about the Fourth. The actual resolution declaring our independence from England was passed July 2, 1776, with Congress finally approving it July 4. Fourth Did you know Thomas Jefferson the principle author? We didn’t start calling the Fourth Independence Day until
FSA loans assist farmers in financial distress
Hello friends, The Farm Service Agency has a guaranteed loan program available to assist farmers and agricultural lenders. The guaranteed loans are made by a commercial lender such as a bank or Farm Credit. The Farm Service Agency provides the guarantee to the lender, not the borrower. The lender makes and services the loan. Purpose
USDA awards $2 million grant to improve greenhouse tomato industry
WOOSTER, Ohio — The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center has received a $2 million grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to improve disease control and food safety in the country’s multi-million dollar greenhouse tomato industry — which now accounts for nearly 40 percent of all fresh tomatoes sold in American
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Nov. 4, 2010:
INDIANAPOLIS — A group of Miami Trace FFA members went to Indianapolis Oct. 20 for the 83rd National FFA Convention. The group took an overnight trip and attended two days of the convention. The chapter also toured The Ohio State University’s agriculture campus and veterinary hospital. They arrived midafternoon at Conseco Field House for the
Does fish farming make sense for you?
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — With so much excitement in aquaculture, some farmers might wonder whether raising fish really is practical. After all, raising a herd of beef or milk cows, a barn full of poultry or swine is decidedly different than fish. Or is it? Not so different Actually, many similarities exist, at least conceptually.
Grain harvest struggles to its conclusion
When prices go up and down, sometimes without reason, we call it “volatile.” When we can explain it, we describe cycles and retracements and corrections. We have a basket full of adjectives to describe the chicken-entrail sketching on our charts. This market we just describe as erratic.
Dairy Excel: Return to grazing for dairies of future?
Jim Skeeles discusses a presentation given by Tom Kriegl of the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability at the American Forage and Grassland Council Annual Meeting last month.
Dairy Excel: Ohio’s dairy industry unified in support of U.S. animal identification program
Tim Demland writes on the Ohio Dairy Industry Forum’s decision to support a national animal identification program.
