agriculture

Over the past two decades, the state has seen exponential growth in agritourism income.

Nearly one in five people in Morgan County in eastern Ohio is food insecure, even though the area is surrounded by farmland. New money from the state hopes to address that problem.

The Grocery Box in Steubenville offers local fresh food to the downtown area. The USDA hopes to fund similar operations through the state.

In a five-year span, Ohio lost hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland, according to the latest census of agriculture. The loss is part of a nationwide trend.

The university hopes it grows interest in making maple syrup in the state.

Ohio’s farmers are aging, but aspiring farmers sometimes struggle to break into the field, unable to afford the steep cost of land and equipment. A new program could help.

"Solar grazing," where sheep mow utility-scale solar farms, is one of the best researched forms of so-called "agrivoltaics."

The Ohio Agricultural Mental Health Alliance aims to plug gaps in rural mental health resources. A recently launched survey is the first step to understanding how rural residents cope with stress.

Once they’re on the market, autonomous technologies like self-driving tractors could change the way Ohio farmers manage their crops and, hopefully, help with a widespread farm labor shortage.

A grant from the United States Department of Agriculture aims to increase seafood production in the Midwest by helping farmers grow fish on land.