We?d really like to have some rain. We?ve been dry for about three weeks. We had a tenth of an inch the last week of July and that?s it. The beans need rain badly right now. The corn is starting to fire up in some places. One of our corn varieties has some southern...
We could use some rain. The northern part of the county got a pretty good soaking but you can see 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 so far this month. They...
Fun and reflection in the 22nd episode of the Ohio Ag Net Podcast, courtesy of AgriGold. Host Joel Penhorwood alongside Ty Higgins, Matt Reese, and Bart Johnson prepare for the Ohio Crop Tour coming up. They talk possible outcome for the fields in the next week. We...
Dicamba, a weed killer notorious in some states for spreading well beyond where it?s sprayed, harming other plants along the way, is affecting growers in Ohio.The state has received only 19 official complaints of dicamba damage to fields this year. However, there are...
We began this season with the best-laid plans for our corn crop. April weather provided us with the optimism we were all looking for, but since then, it?s been difficult to keep our head above water ? literally. As you know, 2017 has proven to be one of the wettest...
Lora Howell from Danville won $25,000 worth of precision equipment for her farming operation from Ag Leader Technology.With the help of Evan Watson with Precision Agri Services, Inc., Howell created a video to share her story and participate in the national contest....
The Ohio State Precision Ag team continues to tally up megabytes as the effort to gather a world record setting amount of data for a single corn plant (named Terra Byte). The project is also seeking out which data is most valuable for making agronomic decisions.The...
Considerations for planting cover crops after wheat in grain crop rotations are common this point in the season. With any cover crop, it is advisable to select a species with a given target in mind (surface erosion prevention, nutrient scavenging, N fixation, soil...
Support for agriculture and rural communities not only comes from within these communities, but from outside communities as well.Farm Credit Mid-America is working to make agriculture visible outside rural and farming communities in an effort to bolster support for...
Some of you may remember back to the fun days when taking a pig to the fair was the highlight of summer. Early on I wrote about my sons exercising their pigs in the roadside ditch when the pigs started chasing cars. Of course, the more the pigs chased the car, the...
