{"id":28583,"date":"2012-09-07T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=28583"},"modified":"2012-09-07T06:04:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:04:12","slug":"ohio-ag-dept-plans-drought-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/09\/07\/ohio-ag-dept-plans-drought-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Ag Dept. plans drought meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>REYNOLDSBURG &#8212; The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA), Ohio State University Extension and USDA\u2019s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will host a series of meetings throughout the state in September to provide crop and livestock farmers with information on farming in a drought and on accessing available relief resources.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Governor John R. Kasich signed Executive Order 2012-11K, instructing state agencies to work with Ohio\u2019s farmers to minimize the potential environmental and economic impact of an agricultural drought. As part of the order, ODA was instructed to hold a series of educational meetings to discuss forage management, water availability, heat stress on livestock, mitigation strategies and other drought-related topics.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings will include officials from ODA, Ohio State University Extension and FSA. The public will have the opportunity to talk with experts and ask questions at the following meetings:<\/p>\n<p><strong>September\u00a010, 5:30-8 p.m<\/strong>., Ohio Department of Agriculture, Bromfield Administration Building (Auditorium), 8995 E. Main St. in Reynoldsburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>September\u00a012, 5:30-8 p.m<\/strong>., Heidelberg University, Campus Center Building (Room 120 and \u201cThe Great Hall\u201d), 310 E. Market St. in Tiffin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>September\u00a017, 5:30-8 p.m<\/strong>., OARDC Wooster Campus, Fisher Auditorium, 1680 Madison Ave.,\u00a0Wooster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>September\u00a0 20, 5:30-8 p.m., <\/strong>Greenville High school, Cafeteria (Room106), 100 Green Wave Way in Greenville<\/p>\n<p><strong>September\u00a0 25, 5:30-8 p.m<\/strong>., Ohio University Zanesville &amp; Zane State College,<\/p>\n<p>Campus Center Building (Rooms T430 and 431), 1425 Newark Road in Zanesville<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 27, 5:30-8 p.m<\/strong>., Hocking College, John Light Hall (Room 195), 3301 Hocking Parkway in Nelsonville<\/p>\n<p>Additional meetings will be announced as they are scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on other drought related resources, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agri.ohio.gov\/TopNews\/DroughtInformationAndResources\/\">http:\/\/www.agri.ohio.gov\/TopNews\/DroughtInformationAndResources\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information REYNOLDSBURG &#8212; The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA), Ohio State University Extension and USDA\u2019s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will host a series of meetings throughout the state in September to provide crop and livestock farmers with information on farming in a drought and on accessing available relief resources. In July, Governor John R. [&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-28583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 21:26:05","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\/28583","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=28583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}