The search is on once again. Help us round up the next Ohio Lamb and Wool Queen. The queen serves as a spokesperson for the industry throughout her year of reign at numerous promotional events and activities around the state and will be selected by judges at the Ohio...
Much-needed reform of Ohio?s CAUV formula has been included in the Ohio House?s biennial budget proposal, which is good news for Ohio?s family farmers, according to the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.Farm Bureau is encouraging its members to contact their state...
To force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to protect communities and businesses from harmful algal blooms that have plagued Lake Erie for years, a coalition of businesses, conservation advocates, and sportsmen groups sued, asking a federal judge to order the...
April will end warmer and wetter than normal. A series of storms will impact Ohio and surrounding areas later this week into next week. This will mean wetter than normal conditions into the first week of May. Temperatures will remain above normal as well. The heaviest...
Planting depth recommendations for Ohio are 1.5 to 2 inches deep to ensure adequate moisture uptake and seed-soil contact. Deeper planting may be recommended as the season progresses and soils become warmer and drier, however planting shallower than 1.5 inches is...
Ohio?s senators voted to confirm the long-awaited George ?Sonny? Perdue as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).Both Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) supported Perdue, President Trump?s nominee for the second-to-last open cabinet...
For the first soybean planting Cab Cam of 2017, brought to you by Fennig Equipment, the Ohio Ag Net?s Ty Higgins found Fairfield County farmer Billy Pontius running on April 25th. In a year where farmers are thinking twice about putting additional costs into inputs...
The Ohio Department of Agriculture will soon begin aerial treatments designed to control the gypsy moth population in Ohio. Treatments on 1,308 acres in Licking County will begin in late April or early May, as larva and leaf development reaches the optimal threshold...
Scientists are not sure why some cows develop the condition known as subacute ruminal acidosis, or SARA, but producers know it causes a number of minor symptoms that add up to major problems over time.?Subacute ruminal acidosis is what happens when the pH of the rumen...
With unseasonably warm weather in late winter and early spring, 2017?s winter wheat crop is ahead of its normal development and growth for this time of year. In some areas of Kentucky wheat is estimated to be as far as three weeks ahead of ?normal? development while...
