Farmers bracing for another hay shortage season in Ohio
The abundance of wet weather in 2018 has created a shortage of a hay for farmers to feed their livestock through spring. Shortages have been felt on farms in southwestern Ohio to those along the Ohio-West Virginia border.
USDA scales back projections for 2019 farm income increase
Farm income in 2019 is still projected to increase, but not as much as originally predicted. The latest forecast comes after USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue recently described the economic situation in farm country as similar to the Farm Crisis of the 1980s.