Thursday, December 25, 2025
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At the recent Pennsylvania 4-H State Leadership Conference, 29 4-H'ers received Diamond Clover Awards.
Farmland

Legal and business educators with Ohio State University Extension Service encourage landowners and farm operators to get leases in writing. 
solar panel close up

The Ohio Power Siting Board approved an application filed by AEUG Union Solar, LLC to construct a solar-powered electric generating facility.

The state is home to more than 20,000 orphan wells — oil and gas wells without a registered owner responsible for plugging it once its productive life is through. These wells can pose environmental, health and safety hazards to the people living around them. 
pastured poultry chickens

State ag officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia are urging poultry farmers to be careful, in light of the USDA confirming highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, cases in several states.
flock of black vultures

The USDA announced that approved applicants will be allowed to remove up to five black vultures in Ohio.
curved tortilla moss

The number of native plant species in Ohio grew by five in 2021.
Killdeer

Killdeer are shorebirds, but many live in farm fields with short vegetation. They are relentless in protecting their nests and use a few tactics to do so.
woman holds pine cones in her hand as a tree farm

It's always Christmastime for Jim Rockis, who breeds, grows and sells live conifers for Christmas trees.
Poultry barn

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed in a non-commercial backyard flock (nonpoultry) in Michigan and a commercial poultry flock in Delaware.