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New economics in commodity market favor better forage management
Higher corn prices raise the value of forage; it is cheaper to put cattle gains on grass rather than in the feedlot.
MLK weekend, USDA reports help grain markets
U.S. corn prices, which have been trading somewhat independently of the beans, have not seen the gains of the soybeans, following the recent USDA report.
Ohio farmers, itching to plant, watch markets continue lower
Except for four days of respite, grain markets have been lower almost every day since the March 31 USDA Planting Intentions Report. Ohio farmers, itching to get in wet/cold fields, can only watch prices fall.
USDA is trying to rid market of StarLink
The USDA, through its Commodity Credit Corporation, will purchase $15 to $20 million of hybrid corn seed from small corn seed companies to ensure corn seed with the protein Cry9C is not planted this spring.
Farm Science Review 2016 in photos
Stay tuned as Farm and Dairy continues to capture images from the 2016 Farm Science Review in London, Ohio, Sept. 20-22.
Some reasons to be optimistic
Ohio crop harvest ahead of usual, corn yields looking better than expected.
Dairy Excel: Practical things to do about rising feed costs and today’s milk prices
Since September 2006, U.S. corn has not traded under $3/bushel — not one single time — and chances are good that we will never see corn under $3 per bushel ever again. Meanwhile, milk prices have played yo-yo like never before.
Crops are getting ugly out there
Ohio’s corn condition declined 19 percent for the second week in a row. Our fearless grain commentator, Marlin Clark, can’t remember ever seeing that before.
Do fall nitrogen applications break down corn stover, or just waste money?
A University of Illinois Extension soil and plant fertility specialist says corn stover has become more of a management concern as new hybrids produce stronger stalks, more corn-on-corn acres are planted, and less tillage is done.
From stalk to shock to fodder, harvesting the corn crop required a myriad of unusual tools
Paul Locher explains how early settlers of Ohio country would have harvested corn, detailing the tools they would have used.
