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Northmor Students Test Backyard Soil to Understand Agricultural Science

Kaitlyn Wasilewski, an agriculture education teacher at Northmor Local Schools in Galion, …

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Growing Ohio

10 lessons

Why is corn a valuable crop? How does corn grow, pollinate, and produce kernels? What farming techniques are important to increase corn yield?

Soil and sustainability

12 lessons

How is farming a system? What are the inputs (fertilizer, pesticide, seed) and outputs (crop yield, emissions, runoff)? What impact does soil as a storage have on the consequences of these inputs and outputs?

Did you know?

A bushel of corn can provide several products.

A single bushel of corn could provide one of four essential product categories.

Ohio is the seventh leading producer of corn in the United States.

In 2021, Ohio’s farmers harvested over 1,437 hectares of corn. That’s about 154,677,393 square feet of corn!

Food and agriculture is Ohio’s top industry.

Agriculture is Ohio’s largest industry, earning over $124 billion annually on 76,900 farms in the state.

There are seven major types of corn.

Most Ohioans are familiar with the delicious sweet corn we enjoy each year. However, there are actually seven different types of corn, each with a unique appearance and purpose.