We 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 and barley planted just...
We are probably down to 250 or 300 acres of first crop beans left. We have been rolling along pretty well. I am little disappointed in bean yields. I thought we?d be in the mid-60s but it looks like 56 or 58 will catch our average. With how the beans looked and the...
We got anywhere from 2 to 2.5 inches and they got 4 inches just south of us.We ran about 400 acres of beans. We ran all of the beans that were ready. Then we switched over and ran corn on Saturday for a day and then it rained.The lows in the corn were around 170 and...
This week on the Ohio Ag Net Podcast, brought to you by AgriGold, Joel has a cat-astrophe that causes a wardrobe malfunction. Matt Reese visits with freshwater prawn farmer Don Maloney of Fairfield County and Ty Higgins visits with Preble County farmer Keith Kemp...
Corn and soybean yields continue to exceed farmers? expectations across the Midwest, suggesting USDA estimates may have been closer than many had thought. Prices continue to do nothing. Spreads between futures contracts have widened to levels unseen in several years...
Women landowners and tenants can learn the art of negotiation, drawing up lease contracts and other facets of land-lease agreements during a workshop offered by the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University.The Ladies on...
Chris Penrose really had no interest in going to college when he graduated from high school. He was born and raised in Dayton and finished in the bottom third of his class, but spent the summers of his youth (and pretty much every minute he could) on the Morgan County...
The Ohio Beef Council (OBC) will be visiting with beef producers at auction markets across the state of Ohio during the month of October. Beef producers are encouraged to attend to learn how checkoff dollars are invested to increase beef demand through programs of...
The remains of Nate came into the state yesterday, which was earlier than expected in our discussion last Friday. However, Nate made landfall along the Gulf Coast about 12-15 hours sooner than anticipated too, so that makes sense he would get here sooner. In any case,...
The first week of the 2017 fall edition of Feeding Farmers in the Field took the crew of Ohio Ag Net to Auglaize County where father and son duo Virgil and Darrin Wilt run their corn and soybean operation together. Dale Minyo visited with Virgil on the year as harvest...
