News & Events

Scioto County: Bringing agriculture to area students

Published May. 9, 2013

The event brought hundreds of area elementary students to the fairgrounds to learn about various aspects of agriculture in the community.

Rain may increase algae in Lake Erie

Published May. 16, 2013

Jeffrey Reutter, director of the Ohio Sea Grant Program, shared the data during an Ohio Senate Finance Subcommittee hearing yesterday. He said it doesn’t guarantee that a record algae bloom will spread across the lake as it did during the summer of 2011.

Proposed farm bills would cut billions from current spending levels

Published May. 20, 2013

Savings from both plans would come in large part from reducing funding for the supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — which provides food credits for the poor — and phasing out the controversial automatic subsidies that go to producers of certain crops such as corn and cotton.

Peterson Hopeful For Passing Farm Bill This Summer

Published May. 9, 2013

U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, had threatened earlier this year to sit out writing a new farm bill unless he got a guarantee from House Republican leaders that they’d let the legislation get a floor vote this time.

Pesticide ‘drift’ cause of sudden tree devastation

Published May. 20, 2013

The Ohio Department of Agriculture calls the phenomenon “drift.” Agency officials investigate about 40 complaints of unintentional agricultural poisonings each year.

OSU gets new trustee

Published May. 16, 2013

Porteus, 56, replaces Brian Hicks on the OSU board.
He is a board member of Nationwide and served as president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation from 2008 to 2011.

Ohio's farm counties mystified as feds leave them off the map

Published May. 15, 2013

Ohio, for example, has 88 counties. Most methods of counting, including those used by the state, the U.S. Census Bureau and other government agencies, come up with 48 of them as rural. The CFPB, however, is only counting 20.

Ohio Ag Council announces 2013 Hall of Fame inductees

Published May. 15, 2013

The Ohio Agricultural Council (OAC) will induct Shirley Dunlap Bowser of Williamsport, Louis M. “Mick” Colvin of West Salem, Bernard J. Scott of Tontogeny, and Doug White of Manchester, into the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame during a special breakfast ceremony held in the Rhodes Youth Center at the Ohio Expo Center.

OARDC breaks ground on new ag engineering building

Published May. 13, 2013

The 40,000-plus square foot facility will replace the one destroyed by a tornado Sept. 16, 2010. It is expected to be finished in 18-20 months and will house more than 50 employees. All current employees of the facility have been forced to relocate.

Nutrient management workshop

Published May. 17, 2013

Legal issues regarding manure hauling, as well as issues surrounding equipment inspections and highway safety, will be discussed by Ohio State University experts and others during a joint workshop and meeting of the Midwest Professional Nutrient Applicators Association June 11 in Findlay.