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H2Ohio program funding rebounds amid budget cuts
Despite major budget cuts across state agencies, the Ohio Department of Agriculture will have $50 million available for Ohio farmers to improve conservation practices this year, through the H2Ohio initiative.
Get ahead of the weeds in 2016
Having a weed management plan can be beneficial to maximizing your crop yield this year. OSU’s weed experts, Mark Loux and Doug Doohan share a few pointers on weed management.
Trying to gauge the growth of CSAs
Community Supported Agriculture, or CSAs, have grown in Ohio in the past 10 years. But the concept may be reaching critical mass, according to Brad Bergefurd, OSU Extension state horticulture specialist.
Weather-tracking tool helps track insects
Corn earworms (also known as cotton bollworms) cost cotton producers an estimated $200 million a year in lost crops and control expenses, and they are notoriously hard to track because they migrate at night.
Butler Farm Show 2014
Several new records were set at this year’s Butler Farm Show Junior Fair Livestock Market Sale. The records were set in the steer sale, rabbits, lambs and goat divisions.
Exposure to violence has lasting effect on teens
Children who are exposed to community violence exhibit a physical stress response up to a year after the exposure, suggesting that exposure to violence may have long-term negative health consequences.
Ohio’s wine industry: The movers, shakers and growers of a blossoming trade
Ohio wines have a full-bodied history, ripe with civil war, Prohibition, countless frosts and diseases, but there’s never been a time of such growth as there’s been in the past five years.
Online tools, app help guide guests through Pa. Farm Show
HARRISBURG, Pa. — New, interactive online tools can help visitors to the 2012 Pennsylvania Farm Show navigate the show’s more than 24 acres and nearly 250 events and activities
Meijer increases purchases from Midwest farms
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Midwest grocer Meijer is digging deeper into its network of area farms by increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables it sources from Midwest farms by 5 percent this year.
Veronica reigns supreme again at the All-American Dairy Show
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Huronia Centurion Veronica repeated last year’s performance, edging out six other dairy breed grand champions to earn the supreme championship at the
