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In response to the challenges faced by farmers and the epidemic proportion of suicides. [96] As a result of farmer suicide, research on farmers’ mental health increased sharply with a focus on financial difficulties farms faced during the 1980s and depression. [97]
This golden age was cut off shortly afterwards, though, as the OARDC suffered from the state's need to cut expenditures and merged with the Ohio State University in 1982 due to funding problems. After a decade of continued financial woes, the OARDC experienced a resurgence in the 1990s with the help of new director, Thomas Payne, and new funding.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
University Hall was the first building on campus, built in 1873 and reconstructed in 1976. The proposal of a manufacturing and agriculture university in central Ohio was initially met in the 1870s with hostility from the state's agricultural interests and competition for resources from Ohio University, which was chartered by the Northwest Ordinance and Miami University. [8]
Ohio's corn and soybean harvest is ahead of schedule and much smaller than farmers would have liked. 'Off by quite a bit': Ohio farmers nearly done with meager harvest weeks ahead of schedule Skip ...