The U.S. Senate has passed a bill sponsored by Ohio senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman that intends to improve the federal response to water pollution by amending the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998. Senate Bill 1057 will now move...
Rain brought much needed relief to dry areas but brought harvest to a standstill, according to Cheryl Turner, Ohio State Statistician for the USDA?s National Agricultural Statistics Service. There were 4.9 days available for fieldwork for the week ending October 8,...
Ryan Martin 10-11-17Good rains are moving across the state today. We are keeping rain totals this morning at .25?-1? over about 70% of the state, and we are going to miss the really heavy action. Rains of 2? or more are likely in Michigan?but those storms look to pull...
When it comes to weeds, staying ahead of the game is a key to clean fields. In this week?s DuPont Pioneer Field Report, Territory Manager Matt Stroud tells the Ohio Ag Net?s Ty Higgins that putting together a fall herbicide plan will lay the groundwork to a clean...
Saturday Sept. 30 Rick VanFleet and his family graciously hosted a Hereford field day at their family farm in Pleasant City, Ohio. This was the start of the Hereford weekend co-sponsored by the Buckeye Hereford Association and the Switzerland of Ohio Polled Hereford...
October became known as National Pork Month because it was the time of year when hogs were traditionally marketed. Today, it serves as a celebration of pork.?If you eat, you have a connection to a farmer,? said Rich Deaton, President, Ohio Pork Council. ?October Pork...
Fiber is increasingly being added to pig diets, but digestion of fiber in pigs is inefficient and poorly understood. In a new study from the University of Illinois, scientists pinpoint the locations within the digestive tract where fiber is fermented.?We?re trying to...
Ryan Martin 10-10-17Not a lot of change in the overall forecast pattern this morning, but we do have a few tweaks to our forecast?mostly finessing the timing of our next two rain events. Today we should start with decent sun, but clouds will building this afternoon as...
We started harvesting a couple of weeks ago and since then we have been working on soybeans. We have a third of our soybeans cut so far. We have not shelled any corn yet, but we are getting ready to switch over to that now that we are having some rain delays.We have...
Ben Klick, Stark CountyWe are finally getting some long overdue rain. We got two inches yesterday. We got just shy of 300 acres of beans off. We parked the combine at the end of last week and switched over to spread fertilizer, work ground and we got all of the wheat...
