Farming

Ohio’s inaugural “Soil Health Week” highlighted ways that farmers can implement climate-resilient practices using common language. .

The Ohio Agricultural Mental Health Alliance recently released the results of its farm stress survey. Its findings hope to improve mental health care for farmers.

The latest update from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows the most severe drought levels have extended to over a dozen Ohio counties. Forecasters say the weather isn't expected to improve anytime soon.

The federal government hasn't declared a drought in several decades for any county in Ohio. Farmers in Ohio are seeing its impacts, as they're forced to adapt to dryer weather.

Over the past two decades, the state has seen exponential growth in agritourism income.

Ohio State is working with Central State, Lincoln University and the University of Missouri on accelerating climate-smart farm solutions.

Soybeans are a massive Ohio industry with a $5.3 billion annual impact. To keep thriving, farmers must figure out how to adapt to climate change.

Nearly one in five people in Morgan County in eastern Ohio is food insecure, even though the area is surrounded by farmland. New money from the state hopes to address that problem.

The way existing livestock disease testing works, farmers can wait days or even weeks on outside labs. The Kalix PCR testing system, licensed under University of Dayton, provides on-site testing to quickly prevent disease from spreading among cows, chickens or other farm animals.

In a five-year span, Ohio lost hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland, according to the latest census of agriculture. The loss is part of a nationwide trend.