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.
County Agriculture and Natural Resources News
Dealing With Bed Bugs
Dealing With Bed Bugs
An Ottawa resident recently brought a live bed bug at the extension office for us to identify. It was discovered in a bedroom within hours of relatives arriving from a distant city to stay for the weekend.
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Safety Tips for Motorists During Spring Planting
Safety Tips for Motorists During Spring Planting
Farmers are getting increasing uneasy as wet weather has delay the spring planting season. Temperatures are expected to be considerably warmer this week and if we can miss the showers, farmers may have an opportunity to get some spring planting started very late this week.
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State Agriculture and Natural Resources News
Find recent "Grazing School" presentations on-line here!
Find recent "Grazing School" presentations on-line here!
The "Pastures for Profit" grazing school is a comprehensive course in Management Intensive Grazing
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