Wade Vaughn and Gary Walter have been nominated in Local Administrative Area 2 in Wyandot County to serve as a committee member. LAA 2 consists of Crane, Eden, Richland and Salem townships. Ballots were mailed Monday and must be returned to the Wyandot County FSA Office by Dec. 4.

The United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency announced that over $9.6 billion in payments will be made to producers through the Agriculture Risk Coverage, Price Loss Coverage and Conservation Reserve programs.

The Upper Sandusky High School agricultural team placed third in the state and the urban team took sixth in soil judging competition held recently. Competition was held at the county level, district level and state level.

The Wyandot Soil and Water Conservation District is sponsoring a forestry clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the county woodlot next to Angeline School. This clinic will include presentations on timber stand improvements, best management practices for woodlots, invasive species control and harvest contract do’s and don’ts.

The Wyandot County 4-H Endowment Committee will host Ensure the Legacy Auction and Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds, 10171 Ohio 53, Upper Sandusky. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Wyandot County producers are reminded that the acreage reporting deadline for perennial forage crop (examples are grass hay, alfalfa, clover or pasture) is Nov. 15 for crop year 2018 and subsequent years. Also, producers are reminded that the acreage reporting date for fall seeded crops is Dec. 15.

Wyandot County is sending not one, but two representatives to compete at the national FFA convention this week in Indianapolis. Carley Coppler of Carey won the state in prepared public speaking while Hannah Ziegler of Upper Sandusky won the Ohio job interview. Both are leaving today after school to Indianapolis.

Earlier this month the Upper Sandusky FFA took 12th place as a team in the State Forestry Career Development Event (CDE) held at Hocking College in Nelsonville.

Carey Boys 4-H club member Trent Hucke won fourth place at the 94th American Rabbit Breeders Association Convention in Indianapolis with his award-winning junior tort buck. Hucke is a seventh-grade student at Our Lady of Consolation. Submitted photo

The Wyandot County Soil Judging Contest took place recently on the farm of John and Chris Lininger on TH 36 south of Sycamore. Agriculture students from the four county schools competed in two different soil judging contests: the agriculture (rural) contest and the urban contest.