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PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID COLUMBUS, OH PERMIT NO. 1070 40788318 Rural Life Today Serving the Agricultural Community in 66 Ohio Counties • RuralLifeToday.com VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 SEPTEMBER 2015 West Central Ohio Onion McNelly Ring Party a big hit excited By Darla Cabe about 4-H For Rural Life Today ANNA — Every By Linda Moody year, around the end [email protected] of August, friends of Jim and Elaine GREENVILLE — Joy McNelly was McCracken find their one of the familiar faces in the Youth thoughts turning to Building at the Great Darke County onions. Their mouths Fair this year during the revues of begin to water as they 4-Hers. think of the crispy, The rural Pitsburg woman also deep fried goodness judged foods at the county judging for that will soon be a state fair competition last month. reality when they She herself was a 4-H member. feast on fresh onion “I was in 4-H for nine or 10 years rings, right from Jim’s with the Monroe Banners 4-H Club, garden, fried hot and now non-existent,” she said. “When ready to eat right at I got older, I became an adviser for his house. Monroe Banners which became the For the past several Joyful Jets 4-H Club.” years, the group of The former Joy Miller, she said her Gary Brock photo projects in 4-H involved clothing friends, who all live Clinton County farmer Hugh Vance surveys his GMO soybean field. Vance is a strong proponent of GMO technology, saying in the Anna area, “I do food more than clothing this the production method saves farmers labor, money and is good for the environment because they use considerably less time in my life,” said the daughter have gathered at the insecticides on their fields. McCracken home for of the late Arlene Westfall. ” I mend what has become an more than I sew.” annual event – The A 1959 graduate of Franklin Onion Ring Party. Monroe High School, she studied “The party got home economics at The Ohio State started when I began University and taught a couple of The great GMO debate years after that.” See PartY | 11 Later on in life, she helped her Science, emotions, fears and facts MORE INSIDE, ONLINE husband, Dale, on the farm. He retired More “GMO or non-GMO” articles inside: from farming two or three years ago. all collide with farmers in the middle • Should GMOs be labeled on foods? — Page 4 “We had a hog farm until 20 years • Farmers tell why GMO seeds are good for ago,” she said. EDITOR’S NOTE: To see them, or bad — Page 7 • FARM It was her husband who helped expanded version of this • Ohio farm expanding non-GMO processing introduce ridge till farming in Darke • COMMERCIAL FARM article, go to our website at — Page 6 EXPOSURES County. That involves compaction, is www.rurallifetoday.com • The “GMO versus non-GMO” marketing war. good for fertility, costs less to do and • AUTO Who’s winning? — Page 5 By Gary Brock has to be kept manageable. • HOME [email protected] • Are you ready for the GMO ‘super soybean?’ • BUSINESS — Page 5 “Eric Brown,who farms for us, still • LONG TERM CARE COLUMBUS — The • GMOs: The facts are hard to find — Page 8 does ridge tilling,” she said. • MEDICARE SUPPLEMENTS European corn borer PLUS info on GMOs by the numbers, The couple has two children, Steve, • SPECIAL EVENT crawls up the young regulations and more. who has lived in South Carolina INSURANCE stalk of corn and takes a since 1988 and works at Georgetown EXCLUSIVE Online Only Content: • LIFE tasty chomp out of one Paper Mill, and Kathy (wife of Pastor Go to www.myownrurallife.com to read • ESTATE PRESERVATION of the tender leaves. farmers that, in Donnie Hale), now living in Morrow essence, scientific facts additional and expanded articles on the GMO County. She is the mother of the Less than eight hours versus non-GMO debate: later the insect is dead. are trumped by the McNellys’ three grandchildren. • The science and impact of GMO technology; McNelly enjoys gardening and So are all its friends. safety concerns of his • What would happen if there were no GMOs A Japanese consumers, who simply for Ohio farmers?; canning and is treasurer at their 920 North Main Street, agriculture official want … what they want. • Putting a target on “Big Ag” and Monsanto; church, Calvary Bible Church, Bellefontaine, OH 43311 in Washington, D.C. • GMO lawsuit filed against Chipotle. (937) 593-4444 See DEBATE | 10 See mcnellY | 11 http://myacagency.com/ tells a group of Ohio 40708807 via MasterCard® Reward Card after submission* when you buy a set GET of four new select BFGoodrich® passenger or light truck tires, $ including the BFGoodrich® All-Terrain T/A® KO2. 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Visa/MasterCard/Discovery/AMEX 40789277 2 Rural Life Today – West Central Ohio – September 2015 GMO debate not likely to be resolved soon WILMINGTON — To the “GMO” debate has getting into! strains of these seeds are Just this year, com- ploy? Are these new tech- some degree, we all fear just sprung up in the last GMOs are genetically developed. panies like Chipo- nologies needed today the unknown. For most four or five years. modified organisms. What this means is that tle announced they were and into the future to feed of us, the fear of what But it has sprung This means a DNA corn and soybean seeds going “GMO free” in their an ever-hungry world? we don’t know is greater up with a ven- “trait” in a plant is are genetically altered food. To me this implies Can our Ohio farmers than the known risks we geance. located, separated by companies (and you there is something nega- be sustainable without encounter in life every For the last sev- out and inserted can do it too if you own tive about what they had GMOs making their work day. eral months, I have into the tissue of a multi-million dollar lab in their food before, which more efficient? Sometimes, that fear is been researching, a plant to get that and have a staff of trained likely would have been To me, even with more reasonable (drunk driv- interviewing and DNA “trait” to be geneticists!) so they have GMO-processed corn or than a dozen articles on ers and heart attacks) or writing about the Gary “expressed” as the a certain favorable char- soybeans. In fact, odds the GMO topic, this Rural sometimes not so much issue of “GMOs Brock plant grows. This is acteristic. This might be are all of us ate something Life Today package raises (snakes and alien invad- versus non-GMOs” Rural Life all done in a labora- high drought tolerance, today that came from as many questions as it ers). and how this debate Today Editor tory, and has been less saturated fat, resis- corn or soybeans that had answers. Which holds true for applies to farmers perfected by seed tance to herbicides or be been genetically modified. One of the things that I the GMO? here in Ohio for a companies such as deadly to hungry insects. More than 80 percent was pleased to hear was Introduced almost 20 package of articles in this Dow and Monsanto over GMO supporters like of America’s corn and the view of farmers like years ago and in common month’s Rural Life Today. the last 20 years. Every Hancock County farmer soybean crops today are Motter, who says that in use for about the last 17, I had no idea what I was year, new and improved John Motter and Clinton GMOs. the future, there needs County farmer Hugh So, is food processed to a place for both GMO Vance, as you will read in with GMO corn and and non-GMO production the articles in this issue, soybeans safe? Because on the farm. He says it swear by these new GMO GMOs have been in use should not be one or the corn and soybean plants. less than 20 years, all of other. I agree. They make the case that the research is what I’d Please read the “GMO Rural Life Today all these advances in the call “short term.” There or non-GMO” package of plants make it easier for have been studies such as articles in this print edi- September 2015 West Central Zone the farmers to do their one cited in this month’s tion and on our website. jobs. These GMOs are Rural Life Today from the Then decide for yourself. Rural Life Today is published monthly by Civitas Media, LLC and “tools in the arsenal,” as University of California Few things are as impor- it were. last year that basically tant as the safety of the is distributed in over 60 counties throughout Ohio.