News

  1. Low Milk Prices Sending Some Dairy Farmers Out of Business

    Apr 18, 2018

    Nervous about the dramatic drop in milk prices, Ohio’s dairy farmers are leaving the business at a higher than usual rate. Every year, some farmers retire and give up their dairy licenses, but there’s been an uptick recently. In March 2018, there were 2,253 licensed dairy farms in Ohio – a drop of 59 farms in five months.

  2. Bugged by Bugs in Your Home This Winter? Take Steps in Spring and Summer

    Apr 11, 2018

    If you spent the winter finding multicolored Asian lady beetles on your lampshades, brown marmorated stink bugs on your toaster, there’s bad news and good news.

  3. Breeding for Faster-Growing Bluegills and Yellow Perch

    Apr 11, 2018

    Inside cool water-filled tanks in southern Ohio, the laws of nature are being defied: Male yellow perch mate with other male yellow perch; female bluegills with other female bluegills.

  4. April 25 Forum to Focus on Increasing Ohio Farm to School Opportunities

    Apr 6, 2018

    The goal is simple: to get more local foods to more Ohio students in more Ohio schools. The question of how to do so is slightly more complicated.

  5. Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels Prompt More Plant Growth, But Fewer Nutrients

    Apr 6, 2018

     It might seem there’s an upside to the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Plants are growing faster.
  6. Field of soybeans

    Soybean Tariffs Expected to Hit Ohio Farmers Hard

    Apr 5, 2018

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — Soybeans have now been added to the list of American products slated for tariffs in China, a move expected to hurt Ohio farmers in a state whose main crop and agricultural export is soybeans.

  7. Prescription pills next to filled syringes

    Overdose Rate Tied to Jobless Rate

    Mar 22, 2018

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — The decline in Ohio’s manufacturing jobs, especially since 2000, occurred about the same time overdose deaths began to rise so sharply in the state.

    Researchers at The Ohio State University have connected unemployment and underemployment to the opioid epidemic in Ohio, where drug overdose deaths were the second highest per capita nationwide in 2016.

  8. Ohio State CFAES recognizes 13 at its Alumni Awards Banquet

    Mar 19, 2018

    Congratulations to the recipients of 2018 Alumni Awards from the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) at The Ohio State University.

  9. Soybean Acres Increasing, Corn Declining

    Mar 19, 2018

    With soybeans being an easier crop to grow than corn and typically offering a higher return, an increasing number of acres are being used to grow soybeans in Ohio, following a national trend.
  10. Woman milking dairy cows in a parlor

    OSU Extension to Host 5th Annual East Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference

    Mar 15, 2018

    Ohio State University (OSU) Extension will host the 5th Annual East Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference.  The conference is planned for Friday, April 6 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. at the RG Drage Career Technical Center, 2800 Richville Drive SE in Massillon.  All women and young women (high school age) who are interested, involved in, or want to become involved with food, agricultural, or natural resources production or small business are encouraged to attend.

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