By Mark Badertscher
OSU Extension Educator, Hardin County
Fourteen Ohio sheep producers, industry representatives, and an OSU Extension Educator visited five different Michigan Lamb Marketing and Dry Lot/Confinement Sheep Operations the weekend of Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October 1, 2023. This year’s tour was jointly sponsored by the Ohio Sheep Improvement Association and Hardin County OSU Extension. In addition to enjoying the fall color of the trees, producers were able to ask questions of the operators and see these farms as part of this tour in the state of Michigan. Topics included facilities, production, management, and marketing of lamb.
Hi, Bluffton Community. Travis Music here. If you don’t know who I am, I am co-chair of the Bluffton Ride to Remember and I’m on the Bluffton Pathway Board. Where am I at? I’m at (State Route) 103. Look at it, it’s beautiful. We’ve got blacktop.
Guests at the October 13 breakfast meeting of the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce found their parking spaces off Main Street (paving in progress) and then found breakfast made for them, courtesy of Greenhorn and event sponsor GROB Systems.
BACC Director Jim Enneking introduced three new chamber members:
Ohio corn and soybean producers expect record high corn and soybean yields this year, according to Ben Torrance, State Statistician, USDA NASS, Ohio Field Office. The October Crop Production Report is based on conditions as of October 1, 2023. Some highlights of the report follow:
• Ohio expected corn yield is up 8 bushels from last year to 195 bushels per acre. Total production is forecast at 657 million bushels, up 11 percent from last year.
• Ohio soybean production is expected to total 270 million bushels, down 4 percent from last year. The yield is forecast at 57 bushels per acre, up 1.5 bushels from last year.
Beginning Friday, October 20, Citizens National Bank will host a series of free seminars featuring economist Robert J. Morgan.
Local business owners are invited to hear Morgan present his economic forecast for 2024. He will discuss current market conditions and what he expects to see in regards to unemployment, housing and the challenges facing business owners in the upcoming year.
