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Andy Stickel welcomes students to his family farm

Andy Stickel farms with his family, his parents, and his brother’s family in Wood County, Ohio. They grow corn, soybeans, wheat, and tomatoes, as well as raising cattle on their 1500 acre property. Stickel welcomed students from Ohio and many other …
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Crops on campus

“I’ve always wondered why they had corn here.” Now it’s clear to the students in Chuck Crawford’s AP Environmental Science class: The soybean and corn patch at Dublin Jerome High School is part of their studies. Crawford has attended agriculture …
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Getting the job done at 10 mph

Pat Knouff took students on a virtual tour of his western Ohio farm, where he goes soybeans, corn, and a little wheat. Knouff is one of the 25,000 soybean farmers in Ohio who help support the GrowNextGen program through their check-off dollars. …
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Grafting peas and beans

Grafting is a common gardening technique that unites a scion (top of one plant) with a rootstock (the root of another plant). Often times people graft their plants in order to repair a broken or injured plant, to speed up the growth by giving it a …
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Ohio farmers share about spring planting with students

May means it’s planting time for Ohio soybean farmers. Students from across the country visited farms via virtual field trips and learned all about soybean planting. Nathan Eckel welcomed viewers during the elementary trip. Eckel lives in Wood …
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Paper mill sludge: a usable fertilizer?

Approximately 10 billion tons of PMS are produced annually by the paper industry and pose a major disposal problem for paper mills. One possible solution to the industry’s problem is the use of PMS as a fertilizer through land-spreading. When mixed …
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Planting soybeans with Farmer Eckel

Spring is here, and it is time for planting! The Ohio Soybean Council and GrowNextGen made it possible for everyone to be a part of spring planting with Wood County farmer Nathan Eckel. Eckel hosted a virtual field trip on his farm, talking about …
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Spring virtual field trip presents planting to all audiences

Wood County farmer and Ohio Soybean Council board member Andy Stickel invited students from all over Ohio and beyond to visit his farm this week—virtually, that is! Stickel led an elementary field trip one day and another for middle and high school …
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Students share in springtime planting

Blue skies, warmer temperatures, fluffy white clouds—it’s spring, and time for farmers to plant! The Ohio Soybean Council made it possible for students to share in the experience through a virtual field trip. Students had the opportunity to hear …
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Urban students plant soybeans

“Most people think agriculture means to put plants in the ground and drive tractors around,” said science teacher Chuck Crawford. He wants to stop this limited portrayal of agriculture by educating youth about the processes and possibilities in …
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Virtual field trips to soybean farms offered to students

Starting this spring, students who have never had a chance to investigate a soybean field will get the chance to do it — all without having to leave the comfort of their own classroom. With just an internet-connected computer, webcam and microphone, …