WASHINGTON — The National Farmers Union last week recognized 44 outstanding senators and representatives who have demonstrated leadership and support for family farmers and ranchers and their rural communities.

WASHINGTON — Bolstered by the National Farmers Union and Farm Aid, 275 family farmers last week united at the U.S. Capitol to ask for emergency assistance and increased funding to address the harsh economic realities brought on by historically low prices and too high production costs.

FREMONT — The Wood-Sandusky-Ottawa-Seneca Community Action Commission Inc. again will offer a water treatment course and a wastewater treatment and collection course this fall. Both courses take place in 16-week, two-night-per-week sessions and will prepare students for state certification exams in either water treatment or wastewater treatment and collection, according to a press release from the CAC.

Wyandot Soil and Water Conservation District education specialist Angie Ford helps set up the district’s booth Monday in the Merchants Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds.

COLUMBUS — Chris Baker of Hilliard has been promoted to executive director of Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation, a 501(c) nonprofit, public charitable organization. Established in 1985, the foundation strives for measurable agricultural community improvement in Ohio by supporting projects that focus on agricultural education, the environment and economic growth in rural, suburban and urban areas.

The latest meeting of the Pipetown 4-H Club recently took place at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds with 11 members and three guests present. Old business discussed included a report on how well livestock interviews went and how many of the members participated in the Skillathon this year.

FINDLAY — Dr. Deborah Fitzgerald, a technology history professor in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Science, Technology, and Society Program, will speak about the industrialization of agriculture at 7 p.m. Thursday in the University of Findlay’s Martin Lecture Hall, located in the Brewer Frost Science Center.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Applications from soybean farmers are being accepted through Thursday for Conservation Legacy Awards, a program of the American Soybean Association. Winners will get a trip to the 2017 Commodity Classic in San Antonio, Texas.

The Ohio Department of Transportation is asking for the public’s help in creating new habitats for monarch butterflies by collecting milkweed seed pods from plants established between Sept. 1 and Oct. 30 and dropping them off at collection sites across the state.

Two current supervisors for the Wyandot Soil and Water Conservation District have been re-elected to another three-year term. Larry Passet and Jeff Fox were re-elected Thursday night at the annual meeting of the SWCD. They were two of three candidates seeking election.