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Rising fertilizer costs to be topic of Farm Focus

July 14, 2008

VAN WERT — Dealing with the rising cost of fertilizer is one of the main topics at this year’s Farm Focus July 29 at the Marsh Foundation Home Farm in Van Wert. “We picked three of our hot topics,” said Gary Prill, Farm Focus program manager. “One of them definitely is input prices — fertilizer, seed and the rest.” Fertilizer is of particular interest. With the growth of the livestock industry in northwest Ohio and the drastic increase in commercial fertilizer prices, there is a great deal of interest in manure and how it can be applied to crops to reduce the need for buying fertilizers. “One of our other new things this year is manure application, which really ties right in to fertilizer application,” Prill said. “Manure isn’t a waste product, a byproduct anymore. It’s a commodity. “It used to be fairly stable, and you could pre-buy a little bit,” he said. “Now there’s uncertainty. It’s as volatile as the grain market anymore.

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Farmers hear about new wheat varieties

June 23, 2008

CUSTAR — Northwest Ohio farmers learned three new wheat varieties are being released by the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center during a wheat field day Thursday at OARDC’s Northwest Agricultural Research Station.

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Wyandot 4-H gives out 11 scholarships to students

June 2, 2008

The Wyandot County 4-H Endowment is providing 11 post-high school educational scholarships for county 4-H members.

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Nitrogen application dissected

February 26, 2008

GIBSONBURG — Optimal nitrogen application rates, pest and disease control were the main topics during Northern Ohio Crops Day recently at Ole Zim’s Wagon Shed.

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Market prices, farm bill the topics of policy and outlook meeting

December 10, 2007

ATTICA — The need for corn acres versus soybean acres have traded places since this time last year, said ag economist Matt Robert Tuesday during the annual Ag Policy and Outlook meeting.

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‘Fast tractor’ speeds into effect this week

October 15, 2007

Ohio’s new “fast tractor” law goes into effect Thursday. The law allows farm machinery to be driven at speeds faster than 25 mph as long as they display a speed identification symbol.

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