Here in the office of Ohio?s Country Journal and Ohio Ag Net, it is painfully clear that I?m the youngest employee around. From the jokes about millennials to the life stories I have yet to relate to, let?s just say the age gap is, well, noticeable.Now that my...
For many areas of the eastern Corn Belt, a great deal of corn has been planted over the past few weeks. Some corn has emerged and is in the early stages of growth. One phenomenon that commonly occurs at the early stages of the growing season is the appearance of...
As the calendar days pass by and too-wet soil conditions persist, some tough corn decisions are being forced upon farmers.Across the state, numerous growers have reported having poor stands, said Peter Thomison, Ohio State University Extension corn specialist....
After the first round of planting and heavy rains and colder weather shortly thereafter, farmers around Ohio have had to make some tough decisions about what to do with fields that didn?t do so well in the early going. Now that the calendar is getting ready to turn,...
Seed Consultants welcomes Bill McDonald as their new Director of Agronomic Services. Bill has a long track record of providing excellent agronomic advice to growers in the eastern Corn Belt. Additionally, he is a past Ohio Certified Crop Advisor of the year.?Bill...
In response to a request from beef industry stakeholders, the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is revising the live animal specification used for all Angus certified programs (Schedule GLA) to provide more objective...
Frequent rains bringing varied totals across the state kept many operators from plating and, in some cases, replanting corn and soybeans, according to Cheryl Turner, Ohio State Statistician with the USDA?s National Agricultural Statistics Service. There were 1.8 days...
When Jim Stewart mentioned that he used to plant a few patches of dwarf sorghum for the local pheasants, I filed that information away. The subject came up last September when I made my annual autumn stop to ask permission to hunt the acreage he farms. Although...
More rains pushed through Ohio over the Memorial Day weekend, keeping farmers out of unplanted fields or fields in need of a replant in the latter part of May. Terry Jones, Regional Agronomist with Brodbeck Seed says as farmers concerns are concentrated on what is not...
It may seem like it will never happen, but hotter temperatures will be part of the forecast in the near future and spraying strategies will need to change along with those temperatures. The Ohio Ag Net?s Ty Higgins finds out more with Farmers Business Network?s VP of...
