About Agriculture and Natural Resources
Crop & Livestock Production in Putnam County Putnam County has 304,000 acres are involved in farming. The importance of individual crops to total crop receipts are corn (25th), soybeans (3rd), wheat (5th), and (1st) in tomato production respectively with the number in parenthesis representing state ranking of the 88 counties. Greenhouse, processing vegetable crops and nurseries make up a thriving speciality crop industry. The importance of individual livestock enterprises are hogs (3rd), dairy (16th) and beef (39th) respectively. Putnam County has 1,310 farms with the average size farm of 232 acres. Total cash receipts from marketing farm commodities is $153,148,000.00.
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Agricultural Outlook Meeting Schedules
Agricultural Outlook Meeting Schedules
Farmers, agribusinesses and others in the agricultural industry in northwest Ohio have the opportunity to learn more about ag policy and economics at an upcoming Ohio State University Agricultural Outlook and Policy Program meeting.
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Ear Rots in Field Corn
Ear Rots in Field Corn
Farmers will be back in their fields this week attempting to finish soybean harvest and plant some late wheat. Wet and abnormally cold weather has slowed fall harvest and frustrated farmers. After soybean harvest concludes, farmers will turn their attention to a very wet corn crop.
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