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There is always a lot to take in at the Ohio Farm Bureau Young Agricultural Professionals Winter Leadership Experience. Plenty of educational seminars, resources for new and beginning farmers and an abundance of networking opportunities. At the event last weekend in Cincinnati, attendees also got some education and advice from a panel of more seasoned farmers, including Steve Hirsch, a fifth-generation owner of Hirsch Fruit Farm in Ross County, as well as a board member for Nationwide Insurance and Rose Hartschuh, an Ohio Farm Bureau board member who operates a dairy and raises grain crops, alfalfa and cover crops in Northwest Ohio. On this Our Ohio Weekly, hear some of their advice to younger farmers. 00:00 - Hirsch and Hartschuh talk about their current farming operations and the road from when they started their careers to where they are now. 16:50 - Hirsch and Hartschuh discuss some of the new ideas they brought to the farm when they first started and what a plan for the future looks like. 23:50 - On this edition of “To the Beat of Agriculture”, hear from the recipient of the Charles Boyles Master Shepherd of the Year Award. Learn how Roger Cox comes from a long line of sheep herders and how his children are already picking up the mantle from him. 32:20 - Hirsch and Hartschuh share some of the challenges they have seen throughout their career and how important networking is to their success. 42:20 - Hirsch and Hartschuh cover some of the barriers that young and beginning farmers may experience and who influenced them the most in their careers.
COVID-19 has impacted almost every sector of Ohio’s food production system and the range of that impact is far reaching. This week we’ll hear from the state’s commodity groups about how their farmers are being affected directly from the global coronavirus pandemic and the steps they are taking to keep our food supply readily available. 00:00 - Dr. John Newton, Chief Economist, American Farm Bureau Federation / Tadd Nicholson, Executive Director, Ohio Corn and Wheat / Kirk Merritt, Executive Director, Ohio Soybean Association 16:50 - Dave Shoup, President, Ohio Pork Council 23:50 - Dairy farmer Rose Hartschuh talks about her farm's first time ever being told to dump milk "To the Beat of Agriculture" 32:20 - Elizabeth Harsh, Executive Director, Ohio Cattlemen's Association 42:20 - Scott Higgins, President and CEO, American Dairy Association Mideast
Rose Hartschuh and I talk about planning and serving through relief effort trips to areas affected by natural disasters, such as her recent trip to help in eastern Nebraska.
Rose Hartschuh joins Matt and Joel for the Ohio Ag Net Podcast, brought to you by AgriGold. They’re talking the relief efforts by Ohio farmers to Nebraska though Ohio's Rural America Relief. Other guests include Muskingum Co. Pork Producer Matt Bell, Grain Merchandiser Jon Scheve, Laura Lindsey from OSU Extension on Barley, and Chris Baker of the Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation. Tune in!
Featured in this 91st episode of the Ohio Ag Net Podcast, brought to you by AgriGold, is Meghann Winters with the Ohio Pork Council joins Matt Reese, Dale Minyo, and Joel Penhorwood to talk the registration deadline for the upcoming Ohio Pork Congress. More details at www.OhioPork.org. We hear more audio from a roundtable at the 2019 Young Ag Professionals Winter Leadership Experience with farmers Rose Hartschuh of Crawford Co., Ron Grayson Burns of Union Co., and Luke Dull of Montgomery Co. Several leaders were at the Ohio Agri Business Association Industry Meeting, including Scott Higgins of the Ohio Dairy Producers Association, and Arlan Suderman of INTL FC Stone.
The crew of Ty Higgins, Dale Minyo, Matt Reese, and Joel Penhorwood braved the snowy roads. Joel talks with Kent McGuire of Ohio State CFAES on cold weather safety. Matt speaks with John and Connie Surber, recipients of the Ohio Pork Industry Excellence Award. Ty hears from Michelle Specht on what her area Farm Bureau his doing to fight the opioid crisis. To wrap it all up, the group listens to Rose Hartschuh on she and her husband Greg recently winning the AFBF Excellence in Agriculture Award.
In this week's Ohio Ag Net Podcast, Joel Penhorwood checks in from his first trip on the Ohio Farm Bureau County Presidents journey to Washington D.C. He and his round-table of guests, including Rob Leeds, Tyler Duncan, Rose Hartschuh and Michelle Abfall talk about the issues covered this week with Ohio representatives inside the beltway and some highlights from the trek. Dale Minyo caught up with Ohio Department of Agriculture Director David Daniels, which was hard to do this week with the Director zig zagging around the state touting Ohio's #1 industry during Ag Week. And Ty Higgins calls up Latham Farley. Farley farms in Englewood, Ohio and he, along with a big group of farmers from all across Ohio will be taking supplies like hay, fencing and milk replacer to farmers and ranchers in need after wildfires ravaged parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado. Find out about efforts being made this weekend at Ohio Beef Expo. If you would like to help out, there are a number of different ways. Find out about those opportunities at the following link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbviKPR3b5KM5z5qMhKH4YXXitqkk8_hJHFLRaW_tRCO7Uew/viewform?c=0&w=1