Jeff Duling News Today

Jeff Duling has learned a lot over the years as he’s worked with finding cover crops that work best for his farm.

A look at the conservation practices intended to keep harmful nutrients out of Ohios watersheds.

Ohio Farmer will honor Jeff Duling and Bret Margraf at the Ohio Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference.

By Matt Reese It has been a wet harvest season in northwest Ohio.  Bob Short farms in Williams County in the northwest corner of the state where, in

By Randall Reeder, P.E., Extension Agricultural Engineer (retired) Our leading no-till farmers can easily explain to other farmers the advantages of con

Does Ohio have a poop problem? Debate over fertilizer continues two years into H2Ohio initiative Grace Deng, The Columbus Dispatch © File Gov. Mike DeWines H2Ohio initiative is supposed to clean up Lake Erie and other Ohio waterways through several avenues, including a program incentivizing farmers to improve how manure is spread and reduce phosphorus runoff that contributes to algae blooms. When Terry and Ernest Bateson hear rumbling, they know the trucks are coming.  Every...

When Terry and Ernest Bateson hear rumbling, they know the trucks are coming.  Every year, semi-trucks filled to the brim with liquid manure drive by the retired farmers home in Wood Countys Portage Township. The semi-trucks are carrying waste from the CAFOs, or "concentrated animal feeding operations" – in laymans terms, factory farms.  "The road turns brown from the spillage," Ernest Bateson said.  The number of animals in the Maumee watershed has doubled from 9 to 20 million from 2...

By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Ohio Field Leader, a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and soybean check-off. Working together, collecting data, and setting measurable goals were common themes in testimony given by the Ohio Agriculture Conservation Initiative (OACI) before the Ohio House Agriculture and Conservation Committee on Tuesday. Several representatives from the various organizations that make up OACI shared details of the individual aspects of the OACI and explained specific research being...