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Don’t skip soybean aphid scouting despite low appearance numbers
The presence of the soybean aphid marks the third year it has been found in Ohio, and each season has brought more questions rather than answers in the challenge to effectively control the insect.
Lambs, hogs, or steers, this girl can do it all
RANDOLPH, Ohio – Katy Shircliff has two more years to bring her animals to the Portage County Fair. But she’s already worrying about the end of her 4-H days.
Corn growers beware of Fusarium mold
Fluctuating weather has created conditions ideal for growing Fusarium mold, otherwise known as ‘Ear Rot’, which produces Vomitoxin and Zearalenone toxins.
Bayer and Monsanto finalize merger agreement
Bayer and Monsanto sign definitive merger agreement in which Bayer will acquire Monsanto for USD 128 per share. Closing expected by late 2017.
Dairy Channel: Still room for optimism in dairying
OSU Extension Agent Ernie Oelker reports many milk producers can produce milk for around $6.50 per hundredweight of milk or less.
Ohio cattlemen vote for checkoff
SALEM, Ohio – Ohio beef farmers will continue to pay their $1-per-head assessment regardless what happens with the national checkoff in the Supreme Court chambers.
Licking County couple makes it work with farm, off-farm jobs
Matthew and Bethany McCarty live hectic lives on their Licking County farm. They grew up in the area and purchased about 50 acres near Utica in 2020 where they operate McCarty Farmstead.
Pandemic exposes rural broadband access challenges
With the COVID-19 pandemic still in progress, schools are planning both in-person and remote options for learning this year. For those in areas with less internet access, remote learning presents particular challenges.
No arm, No problem. Farm accident survivor makes it work
It’s been 20 years since Julie Prentice, of Mercer County, lost her lower arm in a farm accident. What could’ve been a setback has been nothing of the sort.
The dreaded parlor stove makes its return again
Folks in the latter half of the 19th century went through an unpleasant ritual along about this time of year, or probably a little earlier in Northern climes, called “putting up the parlor stove.”
