{"id":29498,"date":"2012-09-29T05:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=29498"},"modified":"2012-09-29T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T10:30:29","slug":"drought-meetings-set-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/09\/29\/drought-meetings-set-for-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought meetings set for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Information submitted<\/em><\/p>\n<p>REYNOLDSBURG &#8212; The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA), Ohio State University Extension and USDA\u2019s Farm Service Agency (FSA), continue to host a series of meetings throughout the state in September and October\u00a0to 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 27, 5:30-8 p.m<\/strong>., Hocking College &#8212; John Light Hall (Room 195), 3301 Hocking Parkway, Nelsonville<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 1, 5:30-8 p.m<\/strong>., HiTech Center &#8212; Central Conference Room, 1575 North High Street, Hillsboro<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 3, 5:30-8 p.m<\/strong>., Northwest State Community College &#8212; Community College Auditorium (Room E117), 22600 State Route 34, Archbold<\/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>Information submitted REYNOLDSBURG &#8212; The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA), Ohio State University Extension and USDA\u2019s Farm Service Agency (FSA), continue to host a series of meetings throughout the state in September and October\u00a0to provide crop and livestock farmers with information on farming in a drought and on accessing available relief resources. In July, Governor [&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-29498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 12:07:02","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\/29498","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=29498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}