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How to build a bat house
Before removing a colony of bats from your home, make sure you take the time to provide an alternate roost and help maintain the local bat population.
Improve on last year’s shortcomings
As it applies to no-till and soil conservation, frost seeding can be an effective, economical and environmentally sound method of improving forage in pastures and hay fields.
Ask FSA Andy by FSA Andy about NAP assistance and crop acreage
Hello Again! I was asked the other day why farmers talk about the weather. Guessing it goes back to that it is the one variable that everything else aside, can either make or break us for the year. Even if we do everything right, without the weather, our crop will still fail! So yes, especially
Long-term, sustainable funding for county conservation districts to come from local impact fee
HARRISBURG, Pa. — After years of discussion and scrutiny, and months of lively debate and negotiation, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has signed a Local Impact Fee from the extraction of natural gas from underneath much of Pennsylvania. “This is monumental for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, its citizens, businesses and communities,” said Robert B. Maiden, Executive
It’s a weather grain market (again)
The crops are ahead of normal in development, well on the way to an early harvest. Here’s veteran grain merchandiser Marlin Clark on the current grain market.
Grain prices are consistent, but cheap
All three major grains traded on the Chicago Board of Trade have traded to new lows. This happened on the overnight trading, but we have had no rebound.
October brings bittersweet memories
“If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop your story.” — Orson Welles By JUDITH SUTHERLAND Farm and Dairy Columnist The steel gray skies of autumn have most definitely arrived with the turn of the October calendar. The once-green fields of endless soybeans of early September slowly turned golden, and now
Market Monitor: The big crop keeps getting bigger
One axiom in the grade trade is that big crops keep getting bigger. This does not necessarily mean that the crop improves, but that the reporting of the estimates of ultimate crop size changes. That is, each successive crop estimate gets bigger until we get to the January Inventory Report and the final reality puts
Huge crop or early frost: Race is on
Crunch time in the grain markets: If we confirm a huge crop with early harvest, the lows are not yet in.
Bump in grain prices becoming a rally
All three major commodities on the Chicago Board of Trade have shown signs of an uptrend for a few weeks.
