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The Farm Bureau has heard from hundreds of Ohio farmers who don't know what they're going to do this coming winter when they don't have anything left to feed their animals. A few can't even keep ...
Nancy Crow and her husband, John Stitzlein, live on a 218-acre farm in Liberty Township in northern Fairfield County, one that grows thick with hay and corn and soybeans and memories.. A 1,000 ...
This planting season, Ohio crop farmers are worried about the weather as always, but also low commodity prices. New ethanol markets offer some hope. With 'record droughts' in income predicted ...
Limited Resource Farmers are most likely of all targeted farmers to face liquidity constraints [1] Limited Resource Farmers are less likely to adopt conservation strategies related to water quality, perhaps due to financial constraints, benefits of adopting alternative conservation practices, or the smaller nature of their farms.
The percentage of Americans who live on a farm diminished from nearly 25% during the Great Depression to about 2% now, [8] and only 0.1% of the United States population works full-time on a farm. As the agribusiness lobby grows to near $60 million per year, [ 9 ] the interests of agricultural corporations remain highly represented.
Throughout the 1920s and down to 1934 low prices and high debt were major problems for farmers in all regions. [ 64 ] Beginning with the 1917 US National War Garden Commission, the government encouraged Victory gardens , agricultural plantings in private yards and public parks for personal use and for the war effort.
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Rural areas of Ohio have some of the highest rates of suicide state-wide, according to the Ohio Department of Health. [28] Three farmers from the close-knit community of Georgetown committed suicide between mid-2015 and 2017. [3] Several initiatives have been launched to combat the problem, including the "Ohio's Got Your Back" campaign. [28]