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  • USDA Forecasts Robust Corn and Soybean Crops, Despite Flooding
    Despite June's severe flooding in the Midwest, U.S. farmers are on pace to produce the second largest corn crop and fourth largest soybean crop in history, according to the Crop Production report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
  • Farm Production Expenditures Hit Record High in 2007, USDA Reports
    The rising cost of fuel and other products helped drive U.S. farm production expenditures to a record $260 billion in 2007, according to the Farm Production Expenditures 2007 summary released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Total U.S. farm production expenditures rose 9.3 percent from 2006 and nearly 30 percent from 5 years ago.
  • USDA Report Assesses 2008 Corn and Soybean Acreage
    Despite the recent flooding in the Midwest, U.S. farmers expect to harvest nearly 79 million acres of corn and more than 72 million acres of soybeans in 2008, according to the Acreage report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

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2008 Scioto River Sweep - Save the Date PDF Print E-mail

Date: Saturday 9/6/2008

Time: 8:30 a.m. to Noon

What: Delaware County residents who want to keep the Scioto River Clean!  All volunteers welcome, youth under age 16 must be accompanied by an adult, under 18 must have an adult present if canoeing.
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Delaware County Flood Insurance Rate Maps are being updated. PDF Print E-mail

The Delaware County Flood Risk Information Meeting was held May 6, 2008 at the Hayes Building.  To view scans of all the handouts at that meeting click here.  Below is a summary of the information presented at that meeting.

FEMA is in the midst of a "Map Modernization" process nationwide.  They are updating all of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) based on best, currently available data.  In Delaware this means they used the 2006 2' contour data that the County Auditor's office had created.  Preliminary data is now available.
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Current Issue: September 2008 & Fish Sale
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National Wetland Inventory for Delaware County now available ONLINE PDF Print E-mail
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has made the National Wetland Inventory (NWI) available for Delaware County, OH through its online map viewer. Please click here to access it. The Delaware County Field Office will continue to maintain a printed copy of these maps for our county but would encourage land users to take advantage of this online tool.
 
Rural Drainage Report - January 2008 PDF Print E-mail

Rural drainage systems are too often a forgotten and failing infrastructure. The situation leaves Ohio’s agricultural producers, rural residents and communities, as well as our economy and environment at risk.

A Rural Drainage Report for Ohio was published in January 2008. To view this report, please click here.
 
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