While growing up my brothers and I had a running joke that, when asked how much bacon we wanted, we would answer, ?Yes.? The idea was that whatever amount of bacon that was available is the amount that we wanted. The Reese brothers (and our father) REALLY enjoyed...
Warmer and drier weather contributed to the most significant planting progress this season. There were 4.2 days suitable for fieldwork in Ohio during the week ending April 16, according to Cheryl Turner, Ohio State Statistician with the USDA?s National Agricultural...
We are off to a very slow start here in Northwest Ohio. I can only think of a handful of operators who have put any corn in the ground. I can only think of one operator who has put any soybeans in the ground. We had a good run last week. We completed a lot of...
Brandon Monebrake, Preble Co.We are cleaning out beans from grain bins today. We still have a lot of corn left in storage waiting for higher prices. We?re holding quite a bit to see what we can do.We got a bunch of rain Thursday night? 1.6 inches. We got the most rain...
We have some pretty nice weather today here. I am getting a little ground work done, dad is getting the planter ready and we?re going to start planting corn today. A neighbor started planting yesterday on their sand and gravel ground. That is where we are starting...
We just started on corn yesterday. We?re loading the bean planter up now. We are slowly but surely drying out. We have been so wet and we still have some fields with wheat stubble that are too wet for the planter.We just planted one field of corn. It usually takes a...
We are cleaning out beans from grain bins today. We still have a lot of corn left in storage waiting for higher prices. We?re holding quite a bit to see what we can do.We got a bunch of rain Thursday night? 1.6 inches. We got the most rain around here right at the...
The crew of Ohio Ag Net takes a look at all corners of agriculture in Podcast Episode 8. Matt Reese recaps the recent Ohio Poultry Association Annual Banquet with Lisa Tillerman of Cooper Farms. Ty Higgins talks the work of Certified Angus Beef at their Culinary...
A semiautonomous robot may soon be roaming agricultural fields gathering and transmitting real-time data about the growth and development of crops, information that crop breeders ? and eventually farmers ? can use to identify the genetic traits in plants likely to...
Starting this week after former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is confirmed as Secretary of Agriculture, the National Pork Producers Council will begin a concerted effort to get the Trump administration to withdraw the Obama-era Farmer Fair Practices Rules related to the...
