Ohio farmers still have a little more than a year before they’ll be legally required to be certified in order to apply fertilizer to more than 50 acres.

 

But nearly 12,000 have already taken the training, and more than 11,000 have been issued their certificates.

 

The progress is encouraging to Matt Beal, chief of the Ohio Department of Agriculture’s Division of Plant Health. He said it’s hard to say how many people need to be certified, because farm operations are constantly changing and not all farmers apply their own fertilizer.

 

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