Helping Cory The Upper Sandusky High School FFA program recently sold T-shirts to benefit the Cory Hardymon family. Cory is a USHS student who is undergoing treatments for leukemia. Members of Anna Creswell’s fifth period agriculture class are pictured displaying the shirts that were sold. Read More
Carey FFA members earn American degrees CAREY — Three members of the Carey FFA chapter recently received American FFA degrees. Degree recipients were Laine Wentling, Anthony Blair and Russell Phillips. Read More
FSA: Enrollment for safety net coverage continues through Aug. Producers who chose coverage from the Agriculture Risk Coverage or the Price Loss Coverage programs were able to visit FSA county offices beginning Dec. 7 to sign contracts to enroll for coverage for 2016. The enrollment period will continue until Aug. 1. Read More
Hunters have more days for deer-gun season FINDLAY — Ohio’s 2015 deer-gun season continues Dec. 28-29, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. During the Dec. 28-29 firearm season, all hunters (except waterfowl hunters) must wear a vest, coat, jacket or coveralls that either are solid hunter orange or camouflage hunter orange. Read More
Local FSA announces results of county committee election Richard Huston has been elected to represent farmers from Local Administrative Area No. 1, which consists of Crawford, Ridge, Sycamore and Tymochtee townships, on the Farm Service Agency county committee. Huston was elected to his first term. Read More
Ohio hunters bag more deer COLUMBUS — Hunters checked 73,399 white-tailed deer during Ohio’s 2015 deer-gun hunting season, Nov. 30 to Dec. 6, according to a release from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. This represents a significant increase over last year’s harvest of 65,484 deer. Read More
Job interview CDE participants Members of the Carey FFA chapter recently participated in the job interview career development event. For the competition, participants created a resume and cover letter, filled out a job application, interviewed for a job of their choice and wrote a follow-up letter. Read More
FSA reporting of fall seeded crops for 2016 All producers are reminded that the acreage reporting date for fall seeded crops has changed and the acreage reporting date is Dec. 15. This applies to all fall seeded crops, including fall barley, fall wheat and all other fall-seeded small grains. Read More
Area farmers eligible for USDA loans WASHINGTON — Wyandot County is one of 68 Ohio counties designated as a primary natural disaster area from losses due to inclement weather conditions that occurred during the period of March 1 through Aug. 25, according to a press release issued Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Read More
USHS sophmore wins spot at state FFA job interview CDE competition A member of the Upper Sandusky FFA will represent her school and district Saturday at the state job interviewing career development event. Hannah Ziegler, an Upper Sandusky High School sophomore, placed first and will head to the state contest this weekend for the job interviewing CDE. Read More