{"id":27830,"date":"2012-08-17T06:18:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=27830"},"modified":"2012-08-17T06:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:18:05","slug":"ag-director-has-drought-related-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/08\/17\/ag-director-has-drought-related-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag director has drought-related info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ODA information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>REYNOLDSBURG &#8212; Ohio Department of Agriculture Director David T. Daniels is urging Ohio farmers to take advantage of resources that will help connect farmers who may have grown more hay than they need to farmers who don\u2019t have enough to feed their herds.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio\u2019s Hay Directory, along with other drought-related information, is now available at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agri.ohio.gov\/TopNews\/DroughtInformationAndResources\/\">www.agri.ohio.gov\/TopNews\/DroughtInformationAndResources\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The directory is the result of an Executive Order signed by Governor John R. Kasich in July to help farmers through what is being called the worst agricultural drought in 50 years.\u00a0 ODA is also scheduling informational meetings around the state to provide crop and livestock farmers with information on farming in a drought and on accessing available relief resources.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s National Agricultural Statistics Service Ohio Field Office, 53 percent of the state\u2019s corn crop and 34 percent of the soybean crop is currently rated in poor or very poor condition. Most of the topsoil in the state has an inadequate amount of moisture to grow crops well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding food and fiber for a growing population is a daunting task even without taking into account uncontrollable variables, like weather. This is just one part of the governor\u2019s Executive Order to help make sure Ohio farmers are not forced to abandon their fields or their herds, so they can afford to farm again next year,\u201d said Daniels.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the necessities it provides everyone every day, Ohio\u2019s food and agriculture industry adds more than $105 billion to the state\u2019s economy and employs one in seven people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ODA information REYNOLDSBURG &#8212; Ohio Department of Agriculture Director David T. Daniels is urging Ohio farmers to take advantage of resources that will help connect farmers who may have grown more hay than they need to farmers who don\u2019t have enough to feed their herds. Ohio\u2019s Hay Directory, along with other drought-related information, is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 18:43:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}