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Business Profile: Deerfield Farms
DEERFIELD, Ohio — Looking back, it may seem surprising to some that the history of Deerfield Farms Service, Inc. dates back to 1959, when it began as a 93-acre corn and hog operation owned by Boyd Wallbrown Jr., and his wife, Joan, at the present site in Deerfield, Ohio. As Boyd increased his acres, he
CoBank: Rural economy will be ‘squeezed, hobbled, slowed’
Alan Guebert weighs in on factors affecting farm and ranch finances in 2025.
Farm incomes could take a dive in 2024: USDA report
A drop of nearly $40 billion, or 25.5%, in net farm income was predicted in the 2024 Farm Sector Income Forecast, driven largely by climbing production costs and declining crop prices.
At what level of ‘do something’ should agriculture begin to clean up nitrates?
Alan Guebert digs into the recent efforts of lawmakers to address nitrate pollution in waterways that is causing cancer.
Assess your hay fields after first cutting
When we finish first-cutting hay, it seems to me to be a great time to assess our pasture condition and hay supplies.
Enjoying our eternal spring season
This spring season has given us a lot to enjoy.
Climate change: Doing nothing does nothing
The recent U.N. climate change report was big news for everyone everywhere except, it seems, U.S. farm and ranch groups and their members.
Will all tomorrow’s farms be organic?
Families, careers, whole lives take turns that are completely unpredictable. I mean, one minute you’re looking out the window of your third-floor college dorm room in sleepy boredom and the next minute you can’t breathe because, on the sidewalk below, is the lovely, curly-haired creature you absolutely must meet and marry. Hey, it happens. Then,
Valuable online resources for farmers
The spring of 2010 has been exceptional. It has been great to see the progress our farmers are making across northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania. This spring has just been tremendous! Today, I would like to remind producers about four great OSU Extension resources which are helping farmers keep their management skills on the cutting
Tinkering with CRP could be costly
When Farm Journal’s late staff economist John Marten explained the-then new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the mid-1980s, he did so with a clever memory tool. “CRP isn’t complicated,” Marten once told a large crowd (which included me) back then, “if you remember the ‘Four Ws’: West, Wheat, Wet and Windy.” CRP will be called
