Ohio farmers tour northwest farms to study labor
More than 200 Ohio farmers toured northwestern farms Friday to study labor conditions as part of Project Help. The Ohio Farms Bureau Federation sponsored the tour with FLAG formed to counter FLOC. They visited Scott McDonnall and Herb McQuillin farms near Delta and Liberty Center migrant center.
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Joe Ratliff
Ohio
Northwestern
Ohio Farms Bureau Federation
Scott McDonnall
Herb McQuillin
Lucas County
Farm Labor Advisory Group
FLAG
Farm Labor Organizing Committee
FLOC
Delta
McDonnall
Migrant Center
Liberty Center
William Swank
Farm Bureau
Afl-Cio
Teamsters
California
Swank
National Labor Relations Board
George Murphy
Old Fort
Baldemar Velasquez
Bluffton College
Rudy Lera
Velasquez
Youth Award Nominees Named by Milk Producers Federation
Eleven youths from Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, including Norman Hanko of Wakeman, are nominated for the Milk Producers Federation Youth Award. Judges Charles Spreng and Merritt Corbin will visit and interview all nominees before the Aug. 24 Young Cooperators picnic in Orrville where the winner and runner up will be announced.
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Norman Hanko
Wakeman
Clevland Based
Milk Producers Federation
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Charles Spreng
Merritt Corbin
Federation Credit Association of Wooster
Young Cooperators
Orrville
Nature Teaches A Lesson On Water Pollution And Nitrogen
A Sandusky meeting on water pollution sparked the claim that agriculture mainly brings phosphates to streams and Lake Erie. The piece argues phosphates do not leach from soil and notes nitrogen leaching, flooded crops, and the limited effectiveness of late nitrogen application. It concludes phosphates come from organic waste and detergents, not farming.
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John K. Wells
Nature
Sandusky
Lake Erie
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Paul Slade
The
Ohio Agriculture Marketing Association
McQuillin Farm
McQuillin
Ohio Farm Bureau
wAi
Norwalk
House of Service
Co. Norwalk
Sliverbrook
A&p