Tuesday, December 23, 2025
natural gas rig

Farm royalty owners face many legal and financial risks associated with oil and natural gas leasing.

Hastings Dairy and Rowdy Cow Creamery are open for tours and milk tasting for the 2017 May to October season with several open house events.

The West Branch FFA chapter held its annual banquet April 26.

The American Soybean Association and Valent USA are offering a Soy Leaders of the Future program.

The Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame will induct the 2017 honorees; Dwight Beougher, James Buchy, Opal Holfinger and Virgil Strickler Aug. 4.
Lunatic asylum

University class visits Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. Once the site of Weston State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital.
DFA DMS no longer takign independent producer milk

Approximately 225 independent dairymen in the Mideast marketing order have until Nov. 30 to find a new home for their milk. Dairy Farmers of America announced it will no longer market the independent producers’ milk.
oil and gas drilling horizontal leg record

Eclipse Resources Corporation successfully drilled its newest record-setting “super-lateral” well, the Great Scott 3H in less than 17 days. The Ohio well had a total measured depth of 27,400 feet and lateral extension of 19,300 feet.
Strip tillage tool

The demonstration farms in northwest Ohio continue to test and demonstrate practices that can improve water quality.
Hagie AirScout sprayer

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a 12-month extension for implementation of the revised final Certification and Training of Pesticide Applicators rule.