Kasich signs $71.2 billion, two-year state budget
Ohio Gov. John Kasich recently signed a $71.2 billion two-year state budget that includes an income tax cut. A key part of the 2,876-page budget is a 6.3% state income-tax cut for 2015 as a part of a...
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2015 Between the Rows wraps up harvest
Andy Rodefer, Preble Co. Harvest is all done. We finished up with our custom work last week. Now we are working on disk ripping ground, spreading fertilizer and getting ready for next year. In the corn...
View ArticleEven the biggest football game depends on agriculture
For those of us in agriculture, it is easy to see all of the ways that farmers, and what they produce, make our lives a bit easier to live. From the jeans we wear to the food we eat, there are an...
View ArticleSunday morning mutton bustin’ makes for unique “elevator speech”
We have a new pastor at church and he was walking through the congregation prior to the service last Sunday morning and he stopped to say, “Hello.” He looked down at my six-year-old son and said,...
View ArticleWhat if agriculture communicated like “The Donald”?
I am one to rarely talk about politics. In fact, I won’t let anyone even put a sign in my front yard before election day. I just feel that my opinions are mine and your opinions are yours. We will be...
View ArticleSo, what’s better, organic or traditional farming?
As I was cogitating on what to cover in this month’s column, I came across a commentary in “Forbes” by Dr. Henry Miller and Drew Kershen, titled The Colossal Hoax of Organic Agriculture....
View ArticleThe First Cab Cam of 2016 – Pence Farms
One of the first to get the 2016 planting season started in Ohio was Pence Farms in Clark County. The Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins rode along for a round or two of corn planting and visited with Brent...
View ArticleAgTube: The #Plant16 Song
The 2016 planting season has been Deja Vu all over again for many farmers in the Midwest. The Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins wrote this tune to help share their agony with the rest of the country. It this...
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Skinner Century Farm built on leadership and community involvement
Francis Marion (F.M.) Hatton walked across the rich, agricultural fields of Delaware County and stopped to talk with an elderly man about his interest in purchasing the land from the neighboring...
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Research yielding some clear answers to murky water quality questions
Farmers want answers on water quality. The general public wants answers. The residents on and around Ohio’s lakes and streams want answers. But first, what exactly is the problem? Laura Johnson works...
View ArticleWho gets water quality?
First, let me say that I get it. I understand that the farmers in the Lake Erie Watershed were listening to the science and doing what everyone told them. It was once common knowledge that phosphorus...
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Former football pro using sports as a platform for agriculture
When a sports fan heads to the stadium to cheer on their favorite team, it is safe to say that one of the last things on their minds is agriculture. But, thanks to some help from an Ohio farm boy...
View ArticleWe’ll always have Paris…oh wait, never mind
President Donald Trump again sent the left wing aflutter when he fulfilled another campaign promise by announcing a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement that laid out a framework for countries to...
View ArticleWe’re converting Agri Country to digital
I take great pride in being a farm broadcaster, an opportunity in no small part thanks to the rich history of agricultural communication in Ohio. A huge figure in this industry was the remarkable Ed...
View ArticleOhio agriculture accused of “poisoning our lake”
There was quite a stir this week in Toledo with news regarding the Lucas County commissioners’ sponsorship of a website identifying “hotspots” in the Western Lake Erie Basin watershed for nutrient...
View ArticleOhio agriculture has stern message for Gov. Kasich and water quality
Gov. John Kasich appears ready to abandon his common sense approach to governance while ignoring the voluntary conservation efforts, scientific research and mandatory compliance efforts Ohio farm...
View ArticleFarmers watching Lake Erie algal bloom forecast for 2018
By Matt Reese Even if they have never hooked a walleye or basked in the sun on a Lake Erie beach, many farmers took a keen interest in today’s algal bloom forecast — especially after yesterday’s Kasich...
View ArticleAg law news and highlights
By Peggy Hall, Asst. Professor, Agricultural & Resource Law, Ohio State University Here’s our gathering of recent agricultural law news you may want to know. Case highlights value of Ohio’s Grain...
View ArticleA small state with big farmland preservation efforts
By Leisa Boley Hellwarth, a dairy farmer and an attorney near Celina Care to guess where the most expensive farmland in the country is located? Hint — it’s the smallest state in the union at 48 miles...
View ArticleTrump Administration announces relief for farmers hurt by trade war
Since late May, soybean prices have dropped more than $2 per bushel as the trade war has escalated and tariffs have been implemented. Farm commodities across the board have been targeted and the...
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