BUCYRUS — On Sept. 18, Wynford FFA chapter traveled to Galion to Kocher Family Farms for the county soils contest. The urban team won the contest with Jodie Jennings placing first in the county. Thomas Weithman placed second

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CAREY — The Wyandot County Soil Judging Contest took place Friday, Sept. 20 on the farm of Jim and Vivian Gery north of Carey. Agriculture students from the four county schools competed in two different soil judging contests, the agriculture (rural) contest and the urban contest.

Both the agricultural soils team and the urban soils team from the Upper Sandusky FFA competed at the district contest Sept. 26 in Seneca County at took first place to earn a spot in the state event. There were over 200 students in attendance with 27 agricultural teams and 23 urban teams.

NELSONVILLE — Students from the Upper Sandusky FFA took 12th place as a team in the State Forestry Career Development Event held Saturday at Hocking College in Nelsonville. The Forestry CDE involves numerous activities related to the forest and forest products industry in Ohio that vary from year to year.

Voting will open for the USDA’s Farm Service Agency’s Wyandot County Committee on Nov. 4. It is important that every eligible producer participate in these elections because FSA county committees are a link between the agricultural community and the USDA. The 2019 election in Wyandot County will be conducted for the representative for Local Administrative Area No. 3 consisting of Jackson, Mifflin, Pitt, Antrim and Marseilles townships.

COLUMBUS — Rose Hartschuh of Sycamore is serving on the 2019 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 delegates during the state annual meeting in December.

REYNOLDSBURG — The Ohio Department of Agriculture recently announced new veterinary inspection requirements for horses entering Ohio. This applies to all horses, including those intending to participate in the All American Quarter Horse Congress. The intent is to prevent the spread of vesicular stomatitis.

The district forestry contest was held recently at Camp Michael.

The Wynford FFA recently had a pork chop barbecue for the teachers, administration and the Adena construction crew. There were 80 meals sold between everyone. Wynford raised $850 with the meals and extra donations.