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  • USDA Asks Farmers to Show Their Stewardship, Nationwide Survey to Focus on Irrigation
    Water is the source of life and the U.S. agricultural industry depends upon this precious resource to meet the world's growing need for food, feed, fiber and fuel. U.S. agricultural producers will soon have the opportunity to speak out about their water use when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducts the Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey.
  • NASS Gives Thanks to Those Farmers Counted in the 2007 Census of Agriculture This Holiday Season
    This Thanksgiving the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has more than 2 million reasons to be thankful. Having received a record number of responses to the 2007 Census of Agriculture, NASS is giving thanks to all of those farmers and ranchers who fulfilled their responsibility by completing and returning their census forms.
  • USDA Corrects October Crop Acreage Estimates
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture today adjusted its official October acreage and production estimates for six field crops. USDA revised the numbers after discovering discrepancies in a Farm Service Agency (FSA) database of producer-reported crop acreage used by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). NASS published the changes this morning in a corrected version of the Oct. 10 Crop Production.
Natural Resources Area at the Delaware County Fair Grounds PDF Print E-mail

The Natural Resources Area is a place in the out-of-doors to encounter some land stewardship opportunities while taking a break from fun at the fair and during other times of the year. The focus is on conservation practices that are practical and can be implemented outside where you live, work, go to school or worship.

 


 

A visit to our yard will help you install similar practices in your yard:

  • Tree planting
  • Wildlife habitat
  • Pond
  • Wetland
  • Composting
  • Mulching
  • Nutrient Management
  • Terracing
  • Water Conservation
  • Pest Management

The Delaware County Fair Board, Delaware Soil and Water Conservation District and MSI hope that this park-type area is used by diverse groups and people of all ages to assemble and also encounter environmental enhancement ideas.

To donate support for the Natural Resources Area please contact:

Delaware County Fair Board
236 Pennsylvania Ave.
Delaware, Ohio 43015
(740) 362-3821
www.delawarecountyfair.com

OR

The Delaware Soil and Water Conservation District

 
 
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