Jim Percival, of Xenia, begins his last appointed term on the American Lamb Board and has been elected the serve as the 2017 ALB Chair. He represents small sheep producers on this national checkoff program.Percival has been involved in the sheep and lamb industry for...
Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) Director David T. Daniels has appointed former State Representative Tim Derickson as the department?s assistant director. Derickson most recently served as executive director of the Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors....
Declining farm income and farmland values likely will lead to an increase in the number of farmers who are delinquent on their loans and eventually a rise in farm bankruptcies, predicted a pair of Ohio State University agricultural economists.While the current farm...
Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department announced that it is formally initiating antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia. This decision follows a petition that was filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce...
AgCredit ? one of northern Ohio?s largest lenders for farmers, rural homeowners and agribusiness ? recently declared a patronage refund of 24.57 percent for 2016 that results in $18.4 million being refunded to its member borrowers.The patronage payment will provide a...
Playing sports with family seems to be an undervalued commodity in the marketplace of life these days. Athletics themselves ? their competitiveness, sweat equity, failure, success ? create a bond among contenders found few other places.Today, we look at a fun backyard...
Warm Weather Drying Out Fields There were 2.7 days suitable for fieldwork in Ohio during the week ending April 16, according to Cheryl Turner, Ohio State Statistician with the USDA?s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Warmer temperatures this week helped to dry...
This week on the Ohio Ag Net Podcast, a plastic cow, a baseball and a bag of Cheez-Its take center stage. You?ll meet the new Chairman of the Soy Aquaculture Alliance, Bill Bayliss from West Mansfield, Ohio, hear from the Ohio Department of Agriculture?s Kevin Elder...
OSU Greek Week Variety Show 2017 ATZ Farmhouse performance
The University of Kentucky recently reported high true armyworm moth counts (see: https://kentuckypestnews.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/beware-of-true-armyworms-mild-winter-provides-conditions-for-potential-injuries-in-small-grains/). The mild winter likely contributed to...
