Jerry Stanford

Jerry Stanford

6th annual Matthew 25 Health and Care benefit golf outing

Matthew 25 Health and Care of Fort Wayne, Indiana, will host their 6th Annual Matthew 25 Benefit Golf Outing on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at Chestnut Hills Golf Club, located at 11502 Illinois Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46814. All proceeds from the outing go to provide medical, dental, vision and mental health services to low-income adults in Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio without health insurance.

Why STEAM programs are important

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) programs have gained increasing interest among students. Many people don’t realize the effect STEAM programs can have on a community.

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

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.  

Rep. Klopfenstein talks budget, veto overrides

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

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.

Local students named to Youngstown State University Dean’s List

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.