Heavy rains over the weekend resulted in saturated soil conditions across much of the state. Excessive rainfall in some areas have resulted in localized ponding and flooding of corn.

Austin Heil’s family has had its roots firmly planted at a Pleasant Township farm for six generations and the Kenton High School graduate is diversifying from the traditional farming work to guarantee the future of the homestead. Heil was featured recently on the Growing Our Generation email newsletter produced by the Ohio Farm Bureau for being the sixth generation to farm the same land.

The Hardin County OSU Extension office is trapping armyworm and black cutworm in the county this year as a way of determining the level of activity in the area. This trapping is being done in the spring months in addition to the western bean cutworm traps that are set around the county in the summer.

Underwood Stock Farms (Sullinger Farm) will serve as the location for the Hardin County Pasture Walk on Wednesday, May 3. This program will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in a pasture located at 18917 County Road 155 near Ridgeway.

Six small farms were visited as part of the Auglaize and Hardin County New and Small Farm College on Saturday, April 8. The New and Small Farm College was an eight-week short course held at the Ohio State University Lima campus in February and March.

Brian Searson, 15, of Kenton and a student of Kenton City Schools, will serve as the 2017 Beef Ambassador for Hardin County. His selection was announced at last month’s Beef Banquet but he was unable to attend due to a previous engagement. Also on the team are Makenzie Jolliff and Madisen Jolliff.  

Hardin County has received its share of precipitation in the past couple of weeks. Soon the 15 Hardin County township rainfall reporters will be back at taking care of the important task of recording rainfall. This type of data has been collected for the past 24 years through the local OSU Extension office.

Brian Searson, 15, of Kenton and student of Kenton City Schools, will serve as the 2017 Beef Ambassador for Hardin County. His selection was announced at the Hardin County Beef Banquet on Saturday night. He was unable to attend due to a previous engagement. Also on the team are Makenzie Jolliff and Madisen Jolliff.    

A Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) class has been planned for Hardin County. GAPs classes are training sessions for fruit and vegetable producers taught by personnel from Ohio State University’s Fruit and Vegetable Safety Program.

MARYSVILLE — The Ohio Cattlemen’s Association (OCA) awarded Dave Russell of Dola with the Friend of the Expo Award at the Ohio Beef Expo 30th Anniversary, held March 17-19 at the Ohio Expo Center.