Land in farms in Ohio has decreased from 21.5 million acres in 1930 to about 18.5 million now.

Robert Thompson, Hereford cattle breeder east of Lynn, had a five-week-old calf survive a 19-day entrapment in a broken tile ditch on his farm. The calf came up missing, but they could not locate it in the large, tall-grass pasture and they thought it had been stolen. But later, when Thompson was mowing the field for hay, he discovered the 6-foot-deep tile ditch with the live calf in it. After pulling the calf from the ditch, it walked on its own, ate and was accepted by its mother.

Moyerview Magic Inka 4470261, a 6-year-old registered Holstein cow owned by Moyer & Setser, Greens Fork, has produced a noteworthy record of 19,560 pounds of milk and 572 pounds of butterfat in 324 days.

 

Winners of District Eight and the Indiana State Farm Bureau Young Farmer Award, David and Jean Leising of Franklin County, went on to win a special citation in the national Young Farmer and Rancher Program, sponsored by the American Farmer in New Orleans.

They reside with their 2-year-old daughter, Jill Suzanne, in a 125-year-old brick home overlooking the Salt Creek Valley near Oldenburg.

A 1968 New Holland hay baler, No. 269, like new, was stolen from the farm of Jerry Hamilton, who lives south of Centerville, Ind. From evidence at the scene it appeared the baler was pulled away with a pickup truck. Reward is offered for the return or information on theft of baler.

Henry County law enforcement were called to the Steve Hernly farm located on Indiana 109 north of New Castle, where it was found that several hogs had been shot and stolen, and one was found dead and an old .22-caliber rifle was left.

 

Seventy Suffolk Columbia ewes, 2-4 years old, $75; 30 Suffolk Columbia ewes, 5-6 years old, $45; 4 Commercial rams, $50. All farm-raised, Greensburg, Ind.

USDA has approved a field test of genetically altered corn in the United States for the first time. The corn contains gene markers that allow researchers to identify which chromosomes control plant height, yield, disease resistance and the protein makeup of corn grains. BioTechnica Agriculture, Inc. was awarded the test permit.

Ohio farm real estate values have dipped following two years of successive increases. The average value per acre was $1,258, a 1 percent decline from last year’s value of $1,271.

 

Sixty-one pedal tractors were recently sold at Hudson, Ind., with the average bid being $490.

The top pedal tractors sold were: Oliver 88, $5,000; VAC Case with wagon, $1,850; 1850 Oliver, $1,400; 60 JD, $900; D-14 AC, $900; 450 Farmall, $800; 400 Farmall, $800; 130 JD, $750; and 30 Case, $700.

Cattle for sale: 130 Angus and Angus X, fall calving, first calf heifers, bred to Stonegate calving ease bulls, due Aug. 15-Sept. 25, pelvic measured, health work completed including multi-strain pinkeye, spring treated for parasites, $1,350 per head – Abney Meyner Farms, Kentucky.

Stoller International broke ground on its new location on Route 23 north in Ottawa, Ill. This is Stoller’s fifth store, its first store opened in Gridley, Ill., in 1935 and it has four other Illinois locations in Pontiac, Herscher, Streator and Minonk, said Clark Stoller, president.