NEW ORLEANS – Shalie Logan, agricultural educator at Ohio Hi-Point Career Center at Kenton High School, is a recipient of a 2015 Teachers Turn the Key professional development scholarship.

The Hardin County Agriculture Hall of Fame has announced the 2015 honorees to be inducted at the 13th annual Agriculture Hall of Fame recognition banquet. The inductees include: Clinton Archie McNutt and Family, Thomas E. Sprang, Robert L. White and Merritt and Hazel Wilson.

With the help of fifteen volunteer rainfall reporters, the Hardin County Extension office has collected unofficial township rainfall data for the past 23 consecutive years. The 2015 growing season started with a relatively warm and dry planting period. Although most corn was planted early to mid May, excessive rainfall starting later in the month greatly reduced yields.

Results of the election for directors were reported at the reorganizational meeting of the Hardin County Agricultural Society on Nov. 7 as follows:

MOUNT BLANCHARD — The Riverdale High School FFA Chapter will be showcased this weekend, Nov. 7-9, on "This Week In AgriBusiness,” a weekly, one-hour television agri-news program hosted by two of the country's most well-known farm broadcasters, Max Armstrong and Orion Samuelson.

During the month of September, Extension volunteer rainfall reporters received an average of 1.57 inches of rain. The most rain for this month, 2.80 inches, fell in Hale Township, as measured by Tim Ramsey. The least rain reported during the month, 0.79 inches, was reported in Buck Township by Heritage Cooperative (Kenton).

Sheep is a major part of the diets of residents of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and a group of local sheep producers just returned from a tour of those countries to gain a better insight of their methods. Steve and Madelyn Lowery, Nancy Wilcox, Dave Burkhart and Ohio Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator Mark Badertscher took part in the tour sponsored by the OSU Extension Office and the Ohio Sheep Improvement Association.

Five Hardin County people joined an OSU Extension and Ohio Sheep Improvement Association International Sheep Tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Local sheep producers Dave Burkhart, Nancy Wilcox, Steve Lowery, Madelyn Lowery, and OSU Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator Mark Badertscher joined a group of 23 sheep producers, sheep industry personnel, and OSU Extension Educators on a two-week trip to Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland

Due to the ban on poultry exhibits in Ohio, all 4-H and FFA poultry exhibitors across the state, including Hardin County, were unable to bring their poultry project birds to the county fairs. The Hardin County Fair Board stepped up and provided a generous poultry program at this year’s fair, including extensive poster display and contest, full showmanship show with fair board-purchased fake birds and full junior fair livestock sale participation to all with market poultry projects.