I recently had a chance to interview Bruce McPheron the new vice president for agricultural administration and dean of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University. McPheron comes to Ohio from Penn State where he was the Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences. He replaces Bobby Moser who announced his retirement last fall and agreed to stay on the job until a replacement was found. Moser served as vice president for agriculture since…

Continue Reading

For most of us in agriculture when we get to 17th Ave. in Columbus we turn west and head to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Whether it’s to attend the state fair or visit the FFA headquarters or a livestock show at the Coliseum or the Power Show at the Celeste Center, we turn west and not east. Last week the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board held its third listening session and it might seem that the fairgrounds would have been a logical place to stage it. However, the host of this the…

Continue Reading

I wrote in the December issue of Ohio Farmer that Jack Fisher was the Ag Man of the Year. And I will stand by my choice for all the reasons I mentioned, but I have to admit to you, it was NOT made after a long process that looked at all the contenders and mailed ballots out to informed farmers and agribusiness veterans. If I had done so, I might have been a little taken a back by all the contenders for the award.   There were lots of leaders in the Issue 2 battle, including farmers like Jeff…

Continue Reading