Richard Huston has been elected to represent farmers from Local Administrative Area No. 1, which consists of Crawford, Ridge, Sycamore and Tymochtee townships, on the Farm Service Agency county committee. Huston was elected to his first term.

COLUMBUS — Hunters checked 73,399 white-tailed deer during Ohio’s 2015 deer-gun hunting season, Nov. 30 to Dec. 6, according to a release from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. This represents a significant increase over last year’s harvest of 65,484 deer.

Members of the Carey FFA chapter recently participated in the job interview career development event. For the competition, participants created a resume and cover letter, filled out a job application, interviewed for a job of their choice and wrote a follow-up letter.

All producers are reminded that the acreage reporting date for fall seeded crops has changed and the acreage reporting date is Dec. 15. This applies to all fall seeded crops, including fall barley, fall wheat and all other fall-seeded small grains.

WASHINGTON — Wyandot County is one of 68 Ohio counties designated as a primary natural disaster area from losses due to inclement weather conditions that occurred during the period of March 1 through Aug. 25, according to a press release issued Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A member of the Upper Sandusky FFA will represent her school and district Saturday at the state job interviewing career development event. Hannah Ziegler, an Upper Sandusky High School sophomore, placed first and will head to the state contest this weekend for the job interviewing CDE.

Four candidates are running for a single seat on the county committee of the Wyandot County Farm Service Agency. Nearly 7,700 FSA county committee members serve FSA offices nationwide.

Pictured before a recent improvement project is the Bushong ditch, which was petitioned due to trees blocking drainage. Drainage ditches are vital to dealing with rainfall in Wyandot County, according to the Wyandot Soil and Water Conservation District, which currently inspects and maintains 111 ditch and tile projects to help drain house lots and farm ground and prevent erosion during rain events.

DELAWARE — Eleven Ohio FFA chapters, including one with Wyandot County students, were chosen to receive $500 grants to participate in the Ohio Small Grains Marketing Program’s nutritional-awareness campaign, the Food for Thought challenge.

The Wyandot Soil and Water Conservation District has collected rainfall information during the growing season every year since 1978, when Heidelberg University requested participation in its rainfall monitoring network. This year from April through October, 23 volunteers in different areas of the county reported rainfall to the Wyandot SWCD.