As the 2017 field season winds down farmers are reflecting on how things went this summer and are looking ahead to next season.Many Ohio farmers experienced significant slug damage this spring and are thinking about future practices to mitigate slug damage including...
Under the microscope, the bacteria are oblong with built-in magnets that appear as dark blocks that line up like a spine.Magnets in bacteria?Brian Lower stumps a lot of people when he first mentions magnetic bacteria. So he?ll take out a pen and draw them. Or he might...
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, introduced the Local Food and Regional Market Supply (FARMS) Act (HR 3941) in early October. This legislation directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture to continue positive investments in...
Avoid costly problems in the spring by proper winterizing of your sprayer nowIt is very likely that you will not be using your sprayer again until next spring. If you want to avoid potential problems and save yourself from frustration and major headaches, you will be...
Nov. 1, 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of Ohio?s Country Journal with Issue 1 Vol. 25. The very first OCJ was a trial issue that came out in September of 1992 featuring Mark Thomas and his ethanol-powered hot rod on the front cover. The first official issue, however,...
A very interesting set up to finish the week here in Ohio (side note: if you hear a meteorologist describe the weather as ?interesting? 9 times out of 10, it?s not an exceptionally good thing!). Rain coverage geographically was fairly close to expectations yesterday,...
Several livestock producers have inquired about applying liquid dairy or swine manure to newly planted wheat fields using a drag hose. The thought process is that the fields are firm (dry), there is very little rain in the nearby forecast, and the moisture in the...
Like many farmers, Fayette County?s Wes Montgomery wasn?t expecting much as he started the combine up and headed for the corn rows. But as he tells the Ohio Ag Net?s Ty Higgins in this Cab Cam brought to you by Fennig Equipment, things are quite a bit better than...
Lessons of life are sometimes found in the strangest of places. That was the case for a group of Idaho ranchers in the 1950s that found a mysterious case of cyclops lambs among their sheep. That?s right ? one-eyed mutant lambs were being born.An interesting video on...
Recently, members from the Miami East-MVCTC FFA Chapter were challenged to participate in the annual Chapter Corn Contest. The rules of the contest were to bring in one ear of corn and earn a corn-related prize. All participants got a can of soda pop because corn...
