Andrew Bowman, veterinarian with the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine at The Ohio State University, is in the midst of a seven-year study of 100 county fairs in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, checking for incidences of Influenza A Virus Infecting Swine...
Twenty-three individuals have been selected to participate in the 2017-2018 AgriPOWER Institute, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation?s intensive leadership and advocacy development program. Throughout the year, the Class IX participants will learn about public policy matters...
The OCJ and OAN staff will once again be ?Feeding you the results first? presented by Kalmbach Feeds. The online coverage at ocj.com will include results, photos and videos with the winning exhibitors on the day of the show.The 2017 Ohio State Fair Junior Market Show...
While I hoped I?d never hear this phrase roll of the lips off a farmer or rancher again, I did the other day. I heard someone say, ?I?m just a farmer.?We?ve all heard these words before. We?ve heard them said at the grain elevator, the grocery story, the local caf?,...
In a typical high school biology lab, microscopes, test tubes, beakers, and Bunsen burners are easy to find. Now thanks to Feed the World, an educational program designed to show science teachers how to use agriculture as a learning tool, an ear of corn will be part...
Population trends project the world population will grow by two billion in the next 40 years, requiring a 70% increase in food production to feed the world. To meet this demand, the future generation of farmers, scientists and other professionals will need to be Ag...
Ohio corn producers are reporting more rust on corn this year, and are concerned that it might be southern rust, the rarer but more damaging of the two major rust diseases that affect corn in state. Based on the fact that they both produce rusty looking pustules on...
With more acres of dicamba resistant cotton and soybeans growing in fields around the country, there is more potential for postemergence dicamba applications during warmer, more humid conditions and more chances for the controversial herbicide to move off-target.The...
Fill out the form below to enter to win one of ten four packs of tickets to the 2017 Ohio State Fair. Contest ends Monday, July 24, 2017. [contact-form-7]
