After long hours of work and extensive investment in time and money to get to the show ring, emotions can run high, especially when things do not go as planned. That was certainly the case when, unfortunately, swine influenza was lab confirmed at the Clinton County...
Continued wet weather with heavy downpour events caused many fields to be lost to standing water and has stalled harvest, according to Cheryl Turner, Ohio State Statistician with the USDA?s National Agricultural Statistics Service. There were 1.9 days suitable for...
Episode 18 of the Ohio Ag Net Podcast one of mixed emotions as we bring news of great gains at the Clinton County Fair through a unique program that allowed troubled youth to learn responsibility by raising and caring for a swine project. Ty Higgins is joined by Chad...
Lora Howell from Danville, Ohio is entered to win $25,000 worth of precision equipment for her farming operation from Ag Leader Technology. Currently she is in third place and needs to maintain being in the top three spots to make it to the finals where Ag Leader will...
The Ohio State Fair is a little more than a week away from kicking off its 2017 run. Concluding this year?s fair is the 50th Sale of Champions, held August 6 at 2 p.m. at the Celeste Center.Together with the Ohio Expo Center, we dug through our archives and found...
Some parts of Ohio have been hit hard by large amounts of rainfall over the growing season, with some corn and soybean fields receiving inches of rain in the double-digits in July along. When might growers notice the effects that these recent rains have had on crops...
Ohio?s fair season is underway across the state and leaders at the Ohio Departments of Agriculture (ODA) and Health (ODH) are reminding Ohioans to practice good hygiene when visiting livestock exhibits this summer.?Ohio?s fairs are great places to enjoy some summer...
For some kids, summer means the end of math homework and history lessons, which are quickly replaced by downtime in the sun, sitting by the pool or on a beach somewhere. But for other kids, lessons of a different kind are learned over the hottest months of the year as...
As American family farmers and ranchers navigate the most severe economic downturn since the 1980s farm crisis, the National Farmers Union (NFU) Board of Directors is urging the U.S. Congress to allocate more money to the farm safety net to make it work for family...
On Thursday, after another round of heavy rainfall in parts of Ohio, farmers from all over the state sent us their most current rain gauge figures for the month of July.
