A new Ohio law affects farmers that plan to use certain utility vehicles this planting season, including Gators, Mules and other utility vehicles with a bed designed to transport cargo. The new law is part of the 2018-2019 transportation budget, formally known as...
Get ready for this year?s I-75/I-71 Ohio Crop Tour, presented by AgroLiquid, by checking out this crop tour parody song written by Matt Reese and Ty Higgins!Lyrics:Every year we hit the roadto look at lots of cropsHusking ears and counting podsAt every single stopIf...
f you pasture livestock or want to know more about pasture management, then please do not miss this upcoming opportunity on Sept. 16 to learn from the region?s ?Who?s Who? among forages and pasture management. Ohio State University Extension, West Virginia University...
Western bean cutworm (WBCW) populations decreased for all monitoring counties in Ohio for week ending August 4. A total of 72 traps were monitored in 23 counties. Overall, 653 WBCW adults were captured. The state average per trap decreased from 21 WBCW (week ending...
We could use some rain. The northern part of the county got a pretty good soaking but you can seeScott Metzger, Pickaway Co.some beans getting dry down here on some of the gravel ground. You can see it in the double-crop beans here too. We?ve had three or four tenths...
Aside from sporadic rainfall, most of the state received little to no rainfall, according to Cheryl Turner, Ohio State Statistician with the USDA?s National Agricultural Statistics Service. There were 5.9 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending August 13th....
To get a preview of what to expect this harvest season, the Ohio Ag Net and Ohio?s Country Journal team will once again go on the I-75/I-71 Ohio Crop Tour presented by Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizers. On the tour, two teams of farmers, agronomists and OCJ/OAN staff...
The 8/10 USDA report caught many off guard last week. Even I thought the USDA would trim back corn yield estimates more than they did. As always happens after these reports, the bulls and bears debated the accuracy of these reports. Bulls say the vegetative health...
We have not been receiving rains in northwest Ohio. In the last two weeks we have been deficient of rainfall and are in great need of rains and hopefully this week we will get some. When you look at crop development, most of the corn is in the R3 to R4 from blister to...
We aren?t dry but we are drier. We?re back to getting a couple of tenths of rain instead of getting a couple of inches of rain. That makes things more manageable.We got a quarter inch of rain on Friday and that perked up the double-crop beans especially. We are very...
