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Oh, the challenges of dairy farming in the winter (ever see manure boil?)
Dairy farming is never easy, but even the simple tasks get more complicated in the frigid weather of winter.
Big shake up in eastern corn markets
The shutdown of Bionol, the ethanol plant in Clearfield, Pa., has thrown a monkey wrench into grain marketing in the East currently. A plant that uses 100,000 bushels of corn a day is certainly the 600-pound gorilla in local markets. Producers, elevators and traders are scrambling to work out the problems the shutdown creates. The
Ohio small farmers learn big-farm marketing success
Small farmer conference offers useful insight for landowners of smaller acreages.
A lot to like about Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas
It’s just a guess but I’d bet Blanche Lincoln, chair of the Senate’s Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, would be a tough poker player. The reason is simple: Despite a Congressional record as clean as a hound’s tooth, Lincoln has never lost an election, never been within a country mile of scandal and rarely loses
Dairy price stabilization introduced to Congress
WOOSTER, Ohio — A bill designed to stabilize dairy prices and control the growth of dairy farms that want to expand has officially been introduced to Congress. Known as the Dairy Price Stabilization Act — the legislation is a hybridization of plans by Holstein Association USA, Milk Producers Council of California, and many others concerned
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
Farmers should be honest, open about what they do
Talk is cheap but words have meaning. In a mid-January speech to the 400 or so farmers, vendors and state officials at the 10th annual Minnesota Organic Conference in St. Cloud, I spent most of my hour talking about words like “elitist,” “educate,” “farmer,” “producer,” “customer” and even “mule.” Attack I thought the talk went
Stubborn, yes; ‘un-teachable,’ no
In the five months and three weeks since readers last took over this space, my snail mail and e-mail has taken on a decidedly red hot-ice cold nature. Those who enjoy the column smother me in roses. Those who can’t stand my views — and, often, the fact that I exist — cannot believe someone
Credit crunch crunching markets
If recent conversations with elevator managers and farmers are even slightly predictive, it’s gonna be a long, cold winter in corn and soybean country because the majority of 2008 grain, they say, is — gulp — unpriced. Wow. In my flat, black and beautiful neighborhood, that’s a killer on land that giggled up 200 bushel
School starts: Cort stays home again
Columnist Judith Sutherland continues fighting for her son’s health.
