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Ohio wraps up “normal” planting season

Published Jun. 6, 2013

The statewide planting progress reports from USDA also show a normal planting season for Ohio. While planting progress started out slow, corn and soybean planting was right on pace with the five-year average by the May 12 progress report and then moved ahead of the planting pace later in May.

OSU President E. Gordon Gee to retire

Published Jun. 5, 2013

Gee served as OSU president for two terms, from 1990-1997 and 2007 to present. During his tenure as president, Gee has been an acclaimed leader at OSU. He has enhanced the university’s academic profile as Ohio State has become a highly selective, top-tier public research institution.

Program may help stem tide of toxic algae (Dispatch editorial)

Published Jun. 6, 2013

Now the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has targeted six major streams — the Maumee, Sandusky, Cuyahoga, Wabash, Scioto and Great Miami rivers —to begin monitoring and reducing pollution that exacerbates the algae.

Rep. Bob Gibbs gets reacquainted with Northeast Ohio roots as area congressman

Published Jun. 17, 2013

The red tape and glacial pace of the legislative process in Washington irritate the two-term Republican congressman, a Bay Village native who spent three decades as a Holmes County hog farmer before becoming an Ohio legislator and a U.S. House of Representatives member.

Senate farm bill stall will be felt across Capitol

Published Jun. 6, 2013

The Senate’s farm bill cloture vote Thursday morning poses a critical test for the Agriculture Committee leadership, which needs a strong showing to clear the way for passage Monday and begin to heal the breach sparked by revisions in the commodity title.