July 2025

Producers and landowners can now enroll in USDA’s Grassland Conservation Reserve Program

July 23, 2025

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that agricultural producers and private landowners can now enroll in the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (Grassland CRP). The sign-up runs from today, July 14, to Aug. 8, 2025. Grassland CRP, offered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), is a voluntary working lands conservation program that enables participants to conserve grasslands while also continuing most grazing and haying practices.

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline marks third anniversary of providing lifesaving support to Ohioans

July 23, 2025

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Today, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline commemorates three years of service. Since launching in 2022, the Lifeline’s trained specialists have responded to nearly 600,000 calls, texts, and chats from Ohioans experiencing emotional distress or a behavioral health crisis.

July 23, 2025

China rolls out some new world-changing, headline-grabbing technological marvel every month, it seems.

Church service was held at Tim and Elizabeth

July 23, 2025

Today is son Benjamin’s 26th birthday. He is going out to eat with his friends, so I didn’t make a cake for him for supper. I am trying to decide what to make for supper with only Joe and I being here. Kevin went along too.

Rep. Klopfenstein talks budget, veto overrides

July 23, 2025

On July 1, Ohio began implementation of its new biennial budget, a 6,000 page document that was approved by the Ohio House April 9 and Ohio Senate June 26 then sent to Governor Mike DeWine to sign on June 27. He signed the budget into law, but not before vetoing 67 lines within it.

Share rental agreements

July 23, 2025

Last week, cash rental agreements were discussed and now crop share rental agreements. For crop share rental agreements, both landowner and tenant share crop expenses and also the crop. This involves much more involvement of landowners in the farming operation. The landowner has the land while the tenant supplies the labor and the equipment for farming the crop. Since the landowner has more risk, usually the return is expected to be higher, but they also have to have more cash outlay. For newer farmers or for cash strapped tenant farmers, this can be helpful, lowering the tenant cash outlay and risk, but the tenant should expect lower total returns.

July 23, 2025

YOUNGSTOWN, OH - The following students from Paulding County were named to the Youngstown State University Dean’s List for Spring Semester 2025. Dean’s List recognition is awarded to full-time undergraduate students who have earned at least a 3.4 grade point average for not less than 12 semester hours of credit in the Fall semester.

Big, beautiful American poor

July 23, 2025

I grew up poor, that is, American poor. I fantasized about food at night–mashed potatoes, buttery dinner rolls, raspberry cheesecake. I would wake up and imagine a breakfast–strawberry waffles with whipped cream, cold orange juice–then, talk myself toward accepting what I knew was there–toast with peanut butter and usually, milk. My dad did not tolerate ungratefulness.

Haviland Village Council donates $1000 to the Kitty Hope Foundation

July 23, 2025

Ever notice the overabundance of cats in Paulding County and wondered, “What can be done about this issue?” Local non-profit cat rescue, The Kitty Hope Foundation, is tackling this population crisis one feline at a time.