BRUNSWICK, Ohio — Farm Credit Mid-America, an agricultural lending cooperative serving farmers, rural residents and agribusinesses throughout Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, hosted a northeastern Ohio regional advisory meeting March 26 at Mapleside Farms in Brunswick, Ohio. The meeting brought together Farm Credit’s 65 advisers from the area, who are customers and community influencers whose [...]
Editor: Gov. Kasich just signed house bill (HB) 51, the transportation budget, into state law. Many Ohioans are unaware of a provision the Ohio House of Representatives had inserted as an amendment to the bill, which would have raised truck weight limits up to 90,000 pounds. County Engineers Association of Ohio led the fight to [...]
Top bull in Pa. Livestock Evaluation Center offering brings $13,000.
COLUMBUS — The Spring Dairy Expo featured five breed sales that kept the sale ring busy March 28-30. Ayrshire The 2013 edition of the Buckeye Classic Ayrshire sale, co-hosted by the Buckeye Dairy Club and the Ohio Ayrshire Breeders, featured 35 lots that sold for an average of $1,283. The top seller at $2,300 was [...]
COLUMBUS — The 27th Ohio Spring Dairy Expo was held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, Ohio, on March 28-30. A total of 758 animals, representing all seven breeds of dairy cattle, were on the grounds for the shows and sales, an increase of more than 100 head over last year. Exhibitors traveled from [...]
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two sustainable agriculture grants have been awarded within Ohio. Stephanie Jolliff at Ridgemont FFA in Ridgeway, Ohio, received a $2,000 grant from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program for the project “Advocating for Sustainable Agriculture in Grades k-12.” Through the project , 70 Ridgemont FFA members will [...]
COLUMBUS — “Planting seeds” will be the focus of an upcoming school garden conference at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center. It’s organizer, Susan Hogan, said school gardens are great growing tools — for food and for minds. “Using the environment as a context for learning is an incredible tool,” said Hogan, program [...]
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The William R. Henning Meat Science Enrichment Fund has been established at Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences in honor of William R. Henning, professor emeritus, Department of Animal Science, to provide funds for teaching, research and extension programs in meat science. The fund was created in lieu of gifts at [...]
COLUMBUS — Recently the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles instructed the state’s deputy registrars to begin issuing temporary driver licenses to qualified Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals grantees, but only after first confirming applicants’ immigration documents via the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services database. Verification The extra security steps are designed to combat fraud or [...]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Dairy nutritionists, veterinarians, producers and others interested in the industry are invited to attend the Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference, hosted by Ohio State, Purdue and Michigan State universities. The 22nd annual conference is April 23-24 at the Grand Wayne Center, 120 West Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne, Ind. “One of the major [...]