Ohio Country Journal

Irma?s rains moving north

Irma?s rains moving north

AccuWeather reports a fter blasting the Florida Peninsula over the weekend, Irma will track inland across the southeastern U.S., threatening flooding, damaging winds and severe weather over a large area.Irma will put many lives at risk well inland from the coast....

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Glen Newcomer, Sept. 11

I still believe additional rain will benefit the soybean crop. The same holds true for the corn crop. We are, however, getting exceptionally dry. We had hit and miss rains last week but not enough to have an impact or make much of a yield difference. Lack of rain and...

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Brandon Monebrake, Sept. 11

We had a little rain ? about three tenths ? on Tuesday last week. If it rains later today, some of the beans will lose the last of their leaves.I think we might be one of the first in the area to run beans. Ours are the only ones in a pretty big radius that look like...

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Ben Klick, Sept. 11

As we speak, we are chopping corn silage. We are about done with the first silo and we?ll get five or six loads this morning. We are seeing pretty good yields tonnage wise. This is our second planted corn this spring, April 25. It was a pretty good stand with good...

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Scott Metzger, Sept. 11

Most everybody is about 10 or 12 days away from doing any harvesting down here. The cool weather has really slowed things down in terms of turning and drying down.We?ve gotten about two inches of rain so far this month. We had nine-tenths two different times and it...

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