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The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station was founded in 1882 in Columbus and moved to Wooster ten years later. The station grew at Wooster, focusing on crops commonly raised in Ohio, such as corn, wheat, livestock husbandry and nutrition, and expanding into other departments such as entomology.
Ohio farmers, for the most part, are thrilled with the way crops are growing this year. "We seem to have gotten off to a good start," said Sam Boyce of the Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association.
And crop diversity, which is a big part of the plan at Teter Farm, helps build resiliency. Even though Rogers had to forgo planting one crop already this spring, she has dozens of others.
The program allows landowners to voluntarily sell easements on their farms to the state of Ohio.The easement requires the farm permanently remain in agriculture production. Selected farms must be ...
Ohio is the 3rd largest producer of tomatoes out of all 50 states in the United States, [79] and, in turn, the world's largest ketchup processing plant is located in Fremont. [79] Ohio's agricultural industries represent $124 billion of the state's economic output, employing one in eight Ohioans directly or indirectly.
The history of the department dates to 1846, when it was founded as the Ohio Board of Agriculture. In 1913 the General Assembly created an Agricultural Commission to assume the responsibilities of the Board of Agriculture, State Agricultural Experiment Station, Dairy and Food Commissioner, Commissioners of Fish and Game, and State Board of Veterinary Examiners, as well as some functions of the ...
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Agricultural buildings and structures in Ohio (4 C) American Viticultural Areas of Ohio (5 P) F. Farmers from Ohio (39 P) O. Ohio wine (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category ...