LivestockAfter more than 10 inches of August rain flooded parts of Ohio, OSU Extension is telling livestock farmers to check stored bales, baleage and silage for mould, contamination and heating, and not to feed anything that was under water.
EnvironmentBill and Shane Kellogg of Hardin County, honoured with an Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award, credit grid sampling since 1999, banded nutrients through strip-till and the 2014 Toledo water crisis for turning their farm into a demonstration site.
EnvironmentDon Hammersmith of Defiance County went from no-till for lack of time to diverse cover-crop mixes, poultry litter and precise nutrient rates, and now finds a worm in almost every spadeful, earning the new small-farm category of the Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award.
The Braddock, Kellogg, Hammersmith, McKown, Wolfe families and Turpin Farms will be honoured on 24 September at Farm Science Review in a programme founded by Ohio Farmer magazine and now run by the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
