Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Photo by Nancy Allen/The Daily Standard

Jim Hoorman, OSU Extension educator for Mercer County, talks to farmers during a cover crop walk last September near Fort Recovery. Farmers are being urged to apply for recently approved federal funds to plant winter cover crops. The crops lessen sediment and nutrient runoff and give farmers a place to spread manure instead of on bare ground.

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