With corn needing nitrogen, and pigs and cattle producing a lot of it, anything that offers a better way to use their waste to fortify crops should intrigue farmers. Two agriculture experts at The Ohio State University have redesigned a…
water quality
Farm community taking aggressive action to protect Ohio’s lakes, waterways
Today’s report and summary from Ohio Sea Grant states the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its research partners predict western Lake Erie will experience a significant harmful algal bloom this summer, though not as large as the record…
Cost-share program for cover crops available
Hamilton County Soil & Water Conservation District received a grant from the Ohio Farm Bureau’s Water Quality Initiative Program to fund a three-year study on the effectiveness of cover crops. They evaluated soil fertility as well as the impact on water…
Lynn Snyder - July 11Precision Ag Field Day
Farmers are invited to the farm of Bill and Shane Kellogg who are using a number of methods to improve crop input efficiency, lower cost of production and protect water quality, such as subsurface placement of nutrients using strip tillage techniques,…
Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Tour
Update: Tour offered Sept. 8 only. Learn the existing and new conservation practices implemented on all three farms in the Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network. As well as information packets with more detail being provided on each farm, organizers of the…
Farm Tour Saturday, July 29
Our Land, Our Water 2017 Farm Tour SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2017 Dave & Gina Schmitmeyer Dairy Farm 5757 Siegrist-Jutte Road, Celina AGENDA 10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Introductions & Housekeeping 10:10 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Rotating Tours and Demonstrations Dairy Farm Tour:…
Sharp: Farmers are working to address nutrient runoff issues
Ohio Farm Bureau Executive Vice President Adam Sharp was invited to testify today before a United States Senate committee on the conservation partnerships and programs Ohio farmers have voluntarily participated in for the benefit of water quality and environmental sustainability….
Across the Table: Water quality
Farmers of Grandpa’s generation didn’t think much about public opinion and didn’t need to. People mostly still had ties to family farms and understood how things worked. Dad’s generation had it more challenging; adapting to a public less connected but…
Amy Graves - June 28
Ohio Farm Bureau’s work on the state budget
One of the state’s bills that is most important to agriculture is House Bill 49, Ohio’s two-year operating budget. When the bill was first released, Ohio Farm Bureau’s policy department went through it, line by line, making note of items…
WOTUS is on the way out
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made a proposal June 27 to rescind the Clean Water Rule and revert to the water rule language that existed before 2015, giving the agency time to redefine what ‘waters of the United States’ or…