Thursday, July 16, 2026

The USDA, through its Commodity Credit Corporation, will purchase $15 to $20 million of hybrid corn seed from small corn seed companies to ensure corn seed with the protein Cry9C is not planted this spring.

The Buckeye State Button Society will hold its annual show April 6-8 in Median.

The Ashland County Dairy Service Unit held its annual meeting, and recognized Ayers Farm and GEM Hill Farm as top herds for 2000.

Long-time Farmers Union supporter Charlie Nash of Ottawa, Ohio, has received the National Farmers Union Meritorious Service Award.

A University of Michigan study shows that the cleanliness of the home children grow up in predicts their educational attainment and earnings more than 25 years later.

Ohio State University greenhouse studies recently confirmed the resistance of one shattercane population to herbicides.

Celebrate Women's History Month in March by finding your female ancestors.

In this week's commentary, Editor Susan Crowell discusses how the dark cloud that continues to hang over Buckeye Egg Farms casts a shadow over every farm in the state, regardless of size.

The 39th annual show and sale sponsored by the church will be March 23-24.

The Portage County Dairy Committee bestowed its Sherman Brockett Honorary Dairyman Award March 6 to Alan Tomlinson and his wife, Tommie in recognition of the couple's devotion to ag education and dairy promotion. Tomlinson died March 8 of cancer.