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Hay shortage starting to sink in; take time now to get ahead for next year
SALEM, Ohio – Nobody’s letting go, and for good reason. Any farmer with baled hay to burn is holding it tight, knowing dairymen, beef and sheep producers, and horse and llama owners will keep scrambling to find forages, and that they’ll open their wallets wider and wider to pay for it as winter sets in.
You better know your production costs for 2009
By MIKE DUFFY Estimating costs of crop production for 2009 will be extremely difficult. Some farmers have received forwarding pricing, some set a quantity only and still others will use the spot market. The price consequences of these decisions are substantial. Foreign competition for material, the current U.S. financial crises, the energy price situation and
Ethanol byproduct makes pigs porky
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Pork producers who expect to bring home the bacon by feeding their herds an ethanol byproduct could wind up producing bacon consumers don’t want to bring home.
Ethanol’s future is running out of gas
The ethanol market is in trouble. Alan Guebert digs into the markets, politics and science behind the decline of ethanol use.
I don’t get it: What am I missing?
On a near-perfect harvest day in yellowing central Illinois, a gentle breeze rattles the drying maple leaves near my back door. The whine of a distant combine adds a background vocal and white clouds in a crayon blue sky hang over all. Thirty feet from my bare feet, Maggie the Dog dozes in the shade
How to stock your pond for fishing
Learn more about what fish species to stock your pond with and how to maintain the population thereafter.
Suppressed for now: Gypsy moth count down in Ohio for 2016
Gypsy moth catches were down 14.6 percent in Ohio for 2016. A late season rain may have contributed to the population decrease, but populations can fluctuate from year to year.
Rains in the Plains and Argentina affecting markets
As we head into spring, our marketing eyes are on the rainfall.
Summer fun with August numbers
Alan Guebert digs into the aftermath of the USDA’s number-filled Crop Report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, released Aug. 12.
Seed giant flexes its muscles
In late March, Monsanto Co. sent a “Dear Valued Customer” letter to most U.S. corn and soybean farmers. The reason, wrote Jim Zimmer, Monsanto’s vice president of U.S. branded business, was “to discuss… some current marketplace dynamics that will directly affect you in terms of increased prices for Monsanto’s line of Roundup herbicides for 2008.”
