Thursday, April 25, 2024

The Ohio Department of Taxation released Current Agricultural Use Values reflecting a 17 percent decrease in the tax year 2014. But 2014 reductions not likely to offset three-year increases.
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Brandon White is accused of using fraudulent checks to purchase cattle from farmers who had advertised on Craigslist that they had cattle to sell.
Pasture Walk Kenney

Harry Kenney, of Kenney Farms: "We are trying to maintain high quality forage as close to year around and winter feeding with hay. If a cow can’t live on hay and grass I don’t want it here.”
U.S. Capitol

A bipartisan effort to give U.S. more negotiating power could boost U.S. trade deals for agriculture.

The Ohio High School Rodeo Association has provided the Jarvis family, and many others, with opportunity.
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The Bradford pear is not native to the United States.

Old barns tell a lot about our history, and one Ohio man is dedicated to preserving not only the barns, but the trades that first built them.

FFA news for the week of May 28.

The tool's update now allows growers to include more personalized information to get a closer look at the risk of Fusarium head blight in their area.

Southwest Ohio wheat growers with early flowering fields planted with highly scab-susceptible varieties are at moderate risk for Fusarium head blight development this week.