By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Ohio Field Leader: a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and soybean checkoffAdjusting management practices and optimizing soybean yields based on the planting date was the topic of a presentation by Manni Singh, Assistant Professor of...
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U.S. halts visa application processing in Mexico
U.S. agriculture is working diligently to maintain the stability of our food supply as concerns over COVID-19 lead to increased consumer purchases of groceries and other items. At the same time, the United States is suspending routine immigrant and nonimmigrant...
Sunrise Cooperative hosted FFA Career Day
Sunrise Cooperative, Inc. hosted a Sunrise FFA Career Day on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at its Uniopolis facility in Uniopolis, Ohio. The event was attended by 72 junior and senior FFA students from the following local high schools: Anna, Botkins, Indian Lake, Minster,...
Ohio Ag Weather and Forecast ? March 18, 2020
March 18, 2020 -- There is no change in our thoughts this morning that we are moving into a wetter pattern and will see precipitation above normal for this time of year. Cold air this weekend will not allow for much drying, but temps next week at least sneak back...
Keeping Food Supply Stable
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy EditorOMAHA (DTN) — While most of corporate America is practicing social distancing and working from home, the cattle industry and other food industries are focusing on keeping thousands of people at meatpacking plants continuing to...
Crop Invaders ? 2
By Jim Ruen Progressive Farmer ContributorMarlin Fay has a simple descriptor for white mold. ?It’s ugly!?The Grand Meadow, Minnesota, farmer has been fighting the fungi for the past six years. Disease pressure has been significantly worse the past four years,...
As the world panics about coronavirus, Brazil sells soybeans
The coronavirus hysteria was, at least for a while, just a distant freak show that we were watching on TV and, for those who work with financial and commodity markets, on price charts too.Since last week, however, COVID-19 is already part of our daily life here in...
Check with auction protocol/status before hauling or unloading livestock
Measures are being taken in Ohio and throughout the country to combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), and these measures will impact the state’s livestock auctions.Effective immediately and until further notice, livestock auction facilities are limiting...
U.S. Small Business Administration’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program
The Ohio Development Services Agency is working to submit necessary information to qualify the state for the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. This program will enable small businesses impacted by COVID-19 to apply for...
Ohio Ag Weather and Forecast ? March 17, 2020
March 17, 2020 -- Generally speaking, we have no significant changes to the forecast this morning in terms of events and timing. However, the nearby system this week is ramping up in moisture content, and if thunderstorms come together right, we are going to end up...