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Dairy Palooza

By Bonnie Ayars, OSU Dairy Program Specialist Held on April 28th at the Wayne County Fairgrounds, nearly 275 attendees representing 30 Ohio counties traveled to Ohio’s Dairy Palooza hosted by a volunteer committee working with the 4-H dairy youth specialist, Bonnie Ayars. Although Mother Nature was having a mood swing outside with a variety of ...

Ohio Farm Bureau AgriPOWER Institute accepting nominations

Never before in the history of agriculture has there been the urgency there is today for leaders and advocates for agriculture. With that in mind, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF) launched an elite program designed specifically for farmers and agribusiness professionals: AgriPOWER. This yearlong program focuses on public policy issues confronting agriculture and the food ...

Did HSUS start animal rights World War II?

By Heather Hetterick It was just starting to appear that everyone was, well, not exactly getting along, but at least cooperating with each other and finding some common ground. After all, Issue 2 was behind us and that war between Humane Society of the United States and the agriculture industry in Ohio ended somewhat peacefully with ...

Buffett and ADM launch ‘Invest an Acre’

The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Feeding America and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) established Invest An Acre, an innovative partnership that engages U.S. farmers in helping provide food to their neighbors. Through Invest An Acre, farmers are able to invest the proceeds from one acre or more of their crops in Feeding America to support ...

April a great time for planting alfalfa

April is a good month to plant and establish a new stand of alfalfa. In fact, the sooner, the better, says an Ohio State University Extension educator. Once an alfalfa plant has germinated, that new plant needs 6-8 weeks to establish a good root system that enables it to handle warmer and drier summer weather, ...

2012 Farm Bill Committee Draft

Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow and Ranking Member Pat Roberts released their co-authored mark for the 2012 Farm Bill Friday. A summary released by Stabenow’s office says the Committee Print reforms farm policy, consolidates and streamlines programs, and will reduce the deficit by 23-billion dollars. They state the bill saves taxpayers money while strengthening ...

Addressing early weed control

DuPont’s Jeff Carpenter talks with Dale Minyo about early weed development and the impact early weeds have on planting corn and soybeans in Ohio. Dupont Jeff Carpenter Early weed control

Arson suspected in Central Ohio barn fires

By Ty Higgins, Ohio Ag Net Over the past two weeks there has been a rash of barn fires, 5 in all, reported in Licking and Delaware Counties. Arson is suspected. Thursday morning accounted for 3 of them, all within miles of each other in Delaware County. The calls started coming in to the Harlem ...

National Corn Growers set membership record

The National Corn Growers Association reached a new record high number of members, 37,231, at the end of March.  The previous record of 37,160 was set in August 2011. “It is inspiring to see the level of support for our programs and activities that this new membership record suggests,” said NCGA President Garry Niemeyer, who ...