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How states are testing for COVID-19
Since the COVID-19 virus was found in Ohio and Pennsylvania in early March, the situation has evolved rapidly. Many states are testing for the virus.
USDA research area: More than fuel in ethanol process
The cost of fuel ethanol has become a “crop” problem for USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, which has a Corn-Ethanol Process Cost Reduction project that has been going on since 1997 at the research service’s Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, Pa.
Looking like a near-record harvest
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio – Based on a USDA Nov. 1 yield survey, Ohio’s average corn yield for 2005 is forecast at 143 bushels per acre, up 2 bushels from previous forecast but 15 bushels below the record 2004 state yield of 158.
Grain and oilseed prices continue to rise in June
Ohio’s June corn price of $6.67 per bushel is up $1.13 from May, and the state’s June soybean price of $13.90 per bushel is up $1.80 from May, and $6.18 above what was received at the same time last year.
Dairy Channel: Even rain won’t dispel worries over quality of this year’s dairy feed
Even though this year’s feed nutrient values may be unique and yields will be down, corn silage is still likely to be the best forage value for the dollar. When should you chop? Answers to this and other forage questions by OSU Extension District Dairy Specialist Dianne Shoemaker.
Strap in, if you’re riding the e-wave
I can’t open the mail, or another farm publication, or my e-mail without reading the word “ethanol.” We’re riding the e-wave right now, bobbing along on high corn prices and floating on renewable energy currents from Washington.
What triggered high milk prices? Exports
As a percentage of total U.S. production, we are now exporting more dairy products than corn. (We exported the equivalent of 31.2 billion pounds of milk, or more than the total annual milk production from New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania combined.)
Neither cheap nor poor, just genius
Every August, about silage chopping time, my mind flits back to a burning question of my youth: Given the old fashioned way we made corn silage on that southern Illinois dairy farm, were we just poor or were we just cheap?
Kudzu presents problems, not yet running rampant in the North
COLUMBUS — An invasive species synonymous with the South has taken root in the Eastern Corn Belt, but according to Ohio State University Extension field crop pathologist Anne Dorrance, kudzu doesn’t yet present quite the headaches for farmers above the Mason-Dixon Line as it has below.
Using plants to clean polluted soils
PIKETON, Ohio – With gardens and fields of sweet corn, berries and other horticulture-related plots dotting the grounds of Ohio State University’s South Centers at Piketon, it would be easy to dismiss the dozen scraggly-looking potted plants sitting alone in one of the facility’s greenhouses.
