VegNet Vol. 14,
No. 23.
On the WEB at: http://vegnet.osu.edu
In This Issue
1. 56 OH counties – Primary Natural Disaster areas
2. Crop Reports
3. Horticultural Field Night
USDA DESIGNATES 56 COUNTIES IN OHIO AS PRIMARY NATURAL DISASTER
AREAS
Decision Allows Farmers and Ranchers to Apply for USDA Assistance
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2007 The U.S. Department of Agriculture designated 56
counties in Ohio as primary natural disaster areas because of losses caused by
frost and freeze conditions that occurred from April 1, 2007, through April 20,
2007. Those counties are:
Athens, Auglaize, Belmont, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton,
Coshocton, Darke, Fairfield, Franklin, Fulton, Gallia,
Geauga, Greene, Guernsey, Hamilton, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson,
Knox, Lawrence, Licking, Logan, Lorain, Lucas, Madison, Marion, Medina, Meigs, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble,
Ottawa, Paulding, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Portage Preble, Ross, Sandusky.
Also eligible in Ohio because they are
contiguous are the following counties:
Allen Cuyahoga Hardin Mercer Stark Williams
Ashland Defiance Harrison Miami Summit Wood
Ashtabula Delaware Henry Putnam Trumbull
Carroll Erie Huron Richland Tuscarawas
Columbiana Fayette Lake Seneca Van
Wert
Crawford Hancock Mahoning Shelby Wayne
In addition, the counties listed below in the adjacent states of Indiana,
Kentucky, Michigan and West Virginia are also eligible because they are
contiguous:
Indiana: Allen, Dearborn,
Franklin, Jay, Randolph, Union and Wayne counties
Kentucky: Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Greenup,
Kenton, Lewis, Mason and Pendleton counties
All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas
on July 20, 2007, making all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible
for low interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA),
provided eligibility requirements are met. Farmers in eligible counties have
eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans to help cover
part of their actual losses. FSA will consider each loan application on its own
merits, taking into account the extent of losses, security available and
repayment ability. FSA has a variety of programs, in addition to the EM loan
program, to help eligible farmers recover from adversity.
USDA has made other programs available to assist farmers and ranchers,
including the Emergency Conservation Program, Federal Crop Insurance and the
Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program.
Interested farmers may contact their local USDA Service Centers
for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for
these and other programs. Additional information is also available online
at:
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=diap&topic=landing.
FSA news releases are available on FSA’s Web site at:
http://www.fsa.usda.gov.
Release No. 1487.07, Latawnya
Dia (202) 720-7962
Crop Reports by Ron Becker and Matt Hofelich
Northern,
Dry
Weather: Precipitation
continues to remain very spotty. Last
week scattered areas in North Central and
Walking
the Fields Tour: All are again reminded of the August
8, OSU Extension and the North Central Ag Research Station sponsored “Walking
the Field Tour”. The tour will
originate for the North Central Research Station at 1165 CR. 43 in
Melon,
Squash, Pumpkins & Gourds: Cucumber
beetles can be found at varying levels throughout fields with some bacterial
wilted plants in almost all fields if you look hard enough. Fresh Market growers who had been irrigating
started to harvest cantaloupe mid week and yield and quality look
promising.
Peppers: Processing pepper harvest
started this week for early plantings of banana types. Irrigated fields are producing near normal
yields. Insect and disease pressure are
minimal.
Pickles: Foliar diseases have started and
been noted since last weeks light showers. There are reports of Gummy Stem starting to
show up in some pickle fields. Downy
Mildew is still a big concern with a few new cases reported this week. Growers
have tightened up spray schedules from
Tomatoes
– processing: Bacterial
Canker can be found in most varieties around the area. Infections range from severe foliar damage
& fruit spotting - to light foliar damage & no fruit spotting so far. Fields are as well a showing lot's of Blossom
End Rot in the fruit. Ethrel was applied this week to early planting and tomato harvest
could start by August 8th.
Fresh
Market & Processing Cabbage: Increases
in Diamond Back pressure have been reported this week. It seems to have been a
new hatch. Imported Worms have been
around all year long but there are very few reports of Cabbage Looper at this point.
Thrips are as well prevalent in cabbage fields
this year. Growers are on a 7-10 day
spray schedule and Thrip damage to heads has been
minimal. Fresh Market yields have been
way off unless the cabbage was irrigated.
Some fields of early fresh market cabbage yielded 25% of the norm. Processing cabbage yields are as well all
over the board. Yields have been reported
in the 25-30 ton range for some fields why other are nearly a complete loss due
to dry conditions.
Welcome rains came to
Horticulture Field Night to be
held at the OSU South Centers at Piketon on Thursday August 9th from 5 till
We will be showcasing the Fruit,
Vegetable and Green Industry field trials that are going on at Piketon this
year and providing update on other OSU research and programs going on
throughout the state.
Sponsored by OARDC and OSU Extension, the program is open to the
public with no need to pre-register. Cost is $5 per person.
Field research trial tours will be held from
Research trials to be highlighted include high tunnel tomato, pumpkin, seedless
watermelon, fresh-market tomato, fresh-market bell pepper, summer squash, primocane-bearing brambles and strawberry plug plant
production.
Other information to be discussed includes edible landscaping, ornamental corn,
annual bedding plant and ornamental grass evaluations.
Source: Shawn Wright,