Nine months after the full implementation of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Guidance 209 and 213, America?s pig farmers continue to demonstrate their awareness and commitment to doing what?s right on the farm. Since the rules went into effect on Jan. 1, the...
By now, most of us are familiar with the brown marmorated stink bug, the new invasive stink bug that feeds on soybean, corn, fruits and vegetables. As the cool weather returns over the next few weeks, we will see BMSB come into homes ? and infestations can be large....
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the dairy industry supports a two-step process to roll back the existing Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) regulation and generate a new policy that provides farmers...
If you haven?t considered hunting turkeys this time of year, you have 11 more reasons to do so this season. That?s how many counties have been added to the list of those open to the autumn opportunity this year. Hunters this month and next have their choice of 67...
As U.S. House and Senate agriculture committee leadership readies a framework for the 2018 Farm Bill, the conservation community has come to a consensus on a fundamental set of provisions to strengthen the conservation title of the bill. National Farmers Union (NFU)...
There are four opportunities scheduled around the state to learn more about how the USDA Rural Development Value Added Producer Grant can be used to help develop and market a product that will bring additional income back to a farm operation. Attendees should bring...
Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation recently awarded scholarships to recipients pursuing further education in an agriculture-related industry. Scholarships were awarded in amounts between $1,000-$2,200. Recipients receive the award after their first academic term at their...
Across Ohio, combines are busy collecting more than just grain. Yield monitors are also busy collecting data with the hope that this information will lead to more profit in the future.The yield monitor does not directly measure the number of bushels per acre of grain...
Like the core of an apple is at the center of the fruit, family is the core of Springhill Fruit Farm owned by Jeff and Laura Burrer of Shiloh. Named for the fresh water river that feeds the 24-acre Richland County orchard, Springhill Fruit Farm was originally acquired...
This week for the DuPont Pioneer Field Report, the Ohio Ag Net?s Ty Higgins visits with Account Manager Lisa Worl. In the part of Ohio that she covers, Mercer and Auglaize Counties, harvest is underway and early yield numbers are very respectable.
