BUCYRUS — The Wynford FFA Chapter traveled to the 91st annual Ohio FFA Convention on May 2-3, with 13 members in attendance. Seniors Zoltan Feldman and Caleb Rausch spoke about Nebraska in the Nebraska Strong workshop.

BUCYRUS — The Wynford FFA Chapter held its annual FFA banquet April 11. The banquet began with a potluck meal in the high school gymnasium. Students handed out door prizes to guests given by our local businesses.

The Ohio Department of Agriculture, in partnership with Crawford Soil and Water Conservation District, is providing funding for farmers to establish forages for hay production to protect water quality in the western basin of Lake Erie. The Ohio Working Lands program provides incentive payments to producers to establish, maintain and harvest forage and hay lands on eligible cropland acres. This one-time sign up ends this May.

The Upper Sandusky FFA ag and urban soils teams will compete in a national competition in Oklahoma City on Thursday, pitting their soil judging skills against teams from across the United States. Participating teams qualify for the national event by placing among the top five teams at contests held in their home states. The teams match skills in judging the adaptability of land for various purposes including farming, range management and homesite construction.

WILBERFORCE — The Environmental and Natural Resources Career Development Event allows the top natural resource teams in the state to compete as a team against each other for the opportunity to represent Ohio at the national level.

The Upper Sandusky FFA recently hosted its 82nd annual Parent-Member Banquet to celebrate the achievements of the FFA and its members over the past year. More than 400 members, community figures and parents came to support the program.

Each year, the area’s agricultural community and area businesses celebrate National Agriculture Week during the month of March. This year National Ag Week was held March 10–16. The Wyandot County Ag Week Steering Committee sponsored a poster contest for the fourth graders in Wyandot County with the theme “Farmers Lead the Way.”

The Upper Sandusky FFA is sponsoring its 32nd Annual Farm Toy Show from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Upper Sandusky High School gymnasium and cafeteria. There are more than 80 tables set up by over 25 different vendors dealing in farm and construction toys, NASCAR, and related memorabilia.

Gina Lewis and Kayla Weaver were recipients of honorary degrees at the 82nd Annual Upper Sandusky FFA Banquet April 4 in the Upper Sandusky High School gymnasium.

COLUMBUS — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service encourages people and groups wanting to restore and protect critical wetlands, agricultural lands and grasslands to consider enrolling their property into conservation easements.