For ACRES Droughts, floods and damaging weather wreaked havoc last year for farmers across the country, causing billions in insurance losses. For many farmers, crop insurance can offer some relief and protection from rough years such as 2012. To better understand how crop insurance can provide an economic backstop to agricultural losses, Ohio Lieutenant Governor and […]
by GARY BROCK gbrock@civitasmedia.com There isn’t one thing Ohio farmers need to know about China’s affect on Ohio agriculture. There are two. And while Ohio State University’s retired international agriculture economist Dr. Allan Lines says Ohio farmers are all too familiar with the affect China has on the price of corn and soybeans they receive — most […]
By Randa Wagner The songbirds are drifting back into Ohio, the days are gradually warming, and the planting season is fast approaching. Farming, in itself, has unique issues, and each year brings new challenges. One of the issues affecting Morrow County growers this Spring is the increase in cash rent rates with property owners. Many […]
WILLOUGHBY (AP) — Ohio’s maple syrup experts are concerned that above-average temperatures and the delay in seasonal weather could result in statewide production that would be lower than the 100,000 gallons or more reported each of the past two years. The Willoughby News-Herald reports that experts in the field are concerned that this year’s total could mirror the […]
By ZACHARY GRIMM Knox County Citizen The story of the Rickard Family’s farm, Fox Hollow Farm, begins not in Knox County, but in New Jersey. There, Bruce and Lisa Rickard met. Having always wanted to be a farmer, Bruce relocated with Lisa to Columbus 26 years ago with only eight lambs, but plenty of ideas. It […]
By SALLY BOYD sboyd@civitasmedia.com WAKEMAN — It’s often difficult to keep secrets in the small communities which dot Ohio’s rural areas, but for Ken Green, of Wakeman, his family has maintained “the best-kept secret” of that north central Ohio region for nearly 200 years. “We are the best-kept secret in Wakeman. We have really good neighbors,” Green […]
By Randa Wagner rwagner@civitasmedia.com Do you know where the meat on your dinner table comes from? From beef, pork and poultry producers, you might answer, and you’d be correct. But between the farm and the grocery store, animals have to be slaughtered, butchered and sometimes packaged for sale in meat-processing plants. That is where there can […]
By DAVID J. COEHRS Civitas News Service It can become an annoying game for motorists during planting season: inching perilously forward in their vehicles at rural intersections because cornfields obstruct their view of approaching traffic. Local officials say the problem is preventable, and in cases of uncooperative property owners they have the authority to enforce a […]