Why are spotted lanternflies a problem? What to know about the …
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Northeast states are being invaded by spotted lanternflies. In Pennsylvania, 51 of the state's 67 counties are in a quarantine zone. That designation requires many transportation-based businesses to obtain a special permit that requires their employees train to spot the insects so they don't inadvertently transport them elsewhere. Vehicles carrying materials or products contaminated with egg ...
Farmers' Advance
WEBFarm tour: Learning things like cows drink 20 gallons of water a day. USDA and USTR amplify efforts to protect export opportunities for common food and beverage names Knapsack: Drought should lead to talks about environmental impacts Take survey: Wayne team wants input on safeguarding agriculture assets …
Wally's World: Inside Michigan's largest cranberry harvest
WEBOct 21, 2015 · Huggett and his wife Sharon operate Michigan Cranberry Company on an 800-acre parcel of land they struggled to locate June 11, 1985—the couple's 25th wedding anniversary. It took a flyover by Wally, who's also a pilot, to find the abandoned peat-mining operation that summer. "We didn't find it that first day," Sharon said with a laugh about ...
Ohio Farm Bureau leaders named to policy development committee
WEBSep 10, 2024 · 1:29. Area farmers are among 20 Ohio Farm Bureau leaders named to the 2024 Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Policy Development Committee. The committee collects and organizes public policy recommendations from county Farm Bureaus and presents the final policy suggestions to be voted on by Ohio Farm Bureau’s delegates during the state annual ...
It's rare to feel an earthquake in MI, but state does have fault lines
WEBJan 3, 2024 · In Michigan, most fault lines that were potentially visible long ago are now buried deep under sedimentary deposits, so we often don't know they exist until an earthquake happens along them. For example, a fault outside of Kalamazoo was revealed after a 4.2-magnitude earthquake in 2015 — the state's largest since a …
Ohio Farm Bureau urges U.S. Congress to pass new farm bill this …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Ohio farmers worry how bad things might get for themselves and their neighbors if the U.S. Congress fails to pass a farm bill this month. A sudden lack of farm bill protections could force some to sell farmland that has been in their family for generations, said Ty Higgins, director of communications for the Ohio Farm Bureau. "I have heard time and time again from farmers across Ohio that, if ...
The young ones are watching so be a farmer of excellence!
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Enjoy your last days of summer. Autumn is truly knocking at the door. Gail loves the Lord most of all. She delights in her calling to be a wife to Ed Malick and a mother to seven children ages 24 to 41 and grandmother of seventeen. Ed is sixth generation on the homestead family farm in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan.
Drought prompts Columbus to dip into reserve water supply
WEBSep 10, 2024 · Columbus dipping into reserve water supply amid drought drying out Ohio. Some places in Ohio are contending with exceptional drought — 22 counties have been designated as natural disaster areas. The Columbus area has also received substantially less rainfall than seasonal averages, which has turned some grass brown in …
Pataskala factory hires 1,000 employees, makes 1 million solar panels
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Once reaching full capacity by the end of the year, Illuminate USA's 1.1-million-square-foot factory in the Pataskala Corporate Park will employ more than 1,000 Ohioans and produce more than 9.2 million solar panels annually, equal to 5 gigawatts of electricity production — enough to power 1 million American homes, The Advocate reported ...
Guernsey County drought means farmers need to change some …
WEBSep 10, 2024 · Clif Little: Guernsey County drought means farmers need to change some practices. Each farm is different in terms of what practices can best help during a drought. Currently, the only program I am aware the Farm Service Agency is offering related to this drought is the Livestock Disaster Program. Each summer brings slowed forage growth.