Make sure you stop over at the Gwynne Conservation Area during the 2025 Farm Science Review they have great line up of speakers! If you need tickets you can purchase them at your local OSU Extension Office or you can purchase them HERE.
Month: August 2025
Don’t Miss the Small Farm Zone at the 2025 Farm Science Review
We hope that you will visit the Small Farm Zone at the 2025 Farm Science Review we have a great line up of speakers, demonstrations and displays for the show this year. If you need tickets you can purchase those at your local OSU Extension office or on line HERE
Women Who Hunt: Navigating Ohio’s Laws and Outdoor Safety
WOMEN IN AG WEDNESDAY WEBINARS
The 2025 Series will be on the 1st WEDNESDAY of each month.
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Via Zoom Platform
Join us on September 3, 2025, for the next session on…
Women Who Hunt: Navigating Ohio’s Laws and Outdoor Safety
It is a webinar designed to empower women with the knowledge and confidence to hunt safely and legally in Ohio. Participants will explore essential hunting regulations, safety practices, and resources tailored to support women in the outdoors.
Register for the entire series using this link once. go.osu.edu/wiawednesdaywebinars2025
Are you raising a backyard flock? This survey is for you!
Since March 2024, 70 cases of avian influenza A(H5) (H5 bird flu) have occurred in humans in the United States, mostly among workers exposed to infected dairy cows and commercial poultry farms. However, cases have also occurred among people exposed to birds kept in non-commercial, backyard flocks.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Ohio Department of Health (ODH) are interested in learning more about backyard flock owners and their flocks to improve H5 bird flu prevention messaging. The anonymous survey asks about:
- Characteristics of backyard flock owners, their families, and their flocks.
- Knowledge of H5 bird flu and signs and symptoms of H5 bird flu in birds and humans.
- Perceived risk of and concern about H5 bird flu to their backyard flock and themselves/families.
- Attitudes towards reporting sick or dead birds and protective measures like vaccination of their flock.
- Practices they use to protect their flock and themselves from H5 bird flu.
CDC will use the survey results to help make sure that backyard flock owners have the information they need to protect themselves from H5 bird flu. Questions about this survey can be sent to h5flustudy@cdc.gov.
For questions about steps backyard flock owners can take to protect themselves from H5 bird flu, please visit odh.ohio.gov/hpai or contact your local health department.
For questions about protecting your flock, please visit the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA)’s HPAI Poultry webpage or contact ODA at 614-728-6220.
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