Soil and Water Stewardship Week in Ohio Declared
Ohio Gov. Celeste declares May 4-11 as Soil and Water Stewardship Week with the theme Conservation's New Frontiers. The note highlights agriculture as a $1.9 billion crop industry and timber sales, plus ODNR efforts to curb erosion and expand urban conservation, with 68 soil and water conservation districts statewide.
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Ohio
Washington, D.C
ODNR
Division of Soil and Water Conservation
Ohio Federation of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Vance
Lunch Bunch Picnic Amid Orchard Breezes And Firelit Tales
The Monday Lunch Bunch held an apple blossom picnic at Dodds Orchard on a balmy 85 degree afternoon. Neighbors shared beans and burgers, toasted a graduation, and reflected on peach crop frost while recounting a late night firework-like blaze with charcoal blocks near their trees. The piece celebrates simple fellowship among farming families and urges sharing meals with neighbors as a relief from hard times.
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Dodds
Marcella
Erodible land program reopens for CRP sign up
Farmers can sign up through May 23 for the Conservation Reserve Program to place erodible land in a 10 year set aside. First annual payment due Oct 1, 1987 if the 1986 crop is destroyed or harvest the 1986 crop and start payments Oct 1 1987. Eligibility follows previous guidelines including ownership as of Jan 1 1985 and erosion three times the tolerable rate.
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ASCS
CRP
Ohio State University
Lorain County Cooperative Extension Service
Lowell St
Elyria
Demonstration Day Set by Litchfield Equipment in May
Litchfield Equipment at 7966 Norwalk Rd will host its fifth annual Demonstration Day and Open House on May 17 starting at 10 a.m. The event features tractor and attachment demonstrations, refreshments, a door prize, and a candy jar guessing contest with a scale tractor replica prize for the best guess.
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Litchfield
Norwalk Rd
Ohio crop report notes soybeans scarce in south and oats near 80 percent
The Ohio weekly crop summary reports corn 35 percent complete versus 15 percent in the 1981 85 average, with most progress in the southwest. Soybeans were scarcely planted in extreme south areas. Oats seeding reached 80 percent, winter wheat rated fair to mostly good, with some stands unfertilized and leaves drooping from cold. Hay and pastures were fair to good with freeze damage and alfalfa wilt after low temperatures.
Fish for ponds sold by Lorain Soil and Water District
Lorain County residents may order fingerling largemouth bass bluegills or channel catfish for pond stocking from the Lorain Soil and Water Conservation District office through 5 p.m. May 12. Prices: largemouth bass 2-4 inch 45 cents each bluegills 1-3 inch 25 cents each channel catfish 3-5 inch 49 cents and 5-7 inch 60 cents. Delivery May 15 at 10:30 a.m. at Pittsfield Park.
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Elyria
Lorain Soil
Pittsfield Park
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Midview High School
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Susan Crass
Ohio Weekly Crop Report
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