Alternative farming now or never in the breadbasket
A Midwest travelogue records grim grain prices and flooded fields across North Dakota to Kentucky. Silo capacity sits at seventy percent as farmers debate sustainable, long term shifts to exotic mushrooms, cramube, lesquerella, and prairie grasses. Wes Jackson argues for a 50 to 100 year horizon, while farmers face immediate losses and a global grain squeeze.
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North Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Corn Belt
West
Midwest
Wes Jackson
His Land Institute
Salinas
Kan
Wes
4-H Week events planned by Lorain County clubs
Lorain County 4-H members around 1,600 will take part in National 4-H Week October 5 to 11 with club displays and a volunteer leaders recognition dinner. The program, run through the Cooperative Extension Service with Ohio State University, involves 400 adult leaders and 1,600 youths in over 100 clubs.
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Lorain County
Eva Weber
America
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Ohio State University
The
Cooperative Extension Service
Lowell Street
Elyria
Grassies Wayside Inn
Brett Schneider
Tom Schneider
Eric Schultz
Don Schultz
Grafton
Robin Staron
Ron Staron
Rain slows Ohio harvest as fieldwork stalls across regions
Heavy weekend rains dampen soil and delay field tasks in Ohio with 2.4 days suitable for fieldwork in the northwest district. Corn moisture runs in the low 20s while corn harvest nears 12 percent complete and soybeans 15 percent. Rains slow bean harvest, pastures stay fair, and dairy land needs water hauling less. Later, Lorain County 4‑H groups plan a beef cross class meeting at Keystone High School with Dr. Charles Martin, and a free seedling program offers 200 trees for 4‑H members with a $2 shipping fee.
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Northwest
Lorain County
Lorain County Cooperative Extension Service
Ohio Cooperative Extension Service
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American Congress
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Pat Leimbach
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Division of Forestry
Federal Land Bank and Production Credit Association
Western Reserve Farm Credit Services Annual Meeting
Firelands High School
Norwalk
Oberlin
C.A.R
C. Wooster
Medina & Millersburg
Ashland College
Ashland
Mansfield
Scheafer
Beldes
Sigaflelt Diesel
Shell Starr Leer
Conk & Carn
Tukae
Lerten
Cleve
Linden
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