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USDA report may affect baby trends
Grain market traders got evened up ahead of today’s USDA report.
Today’s ag progress and farm science
We can’t continue to make ag progress — scientific or technological progress — unless we confront the role of public opinion in today’s agriculture.
Sluggish exports, sequestration are threatening pork price recovery
The current U.S. pork industry outlook suggests it will be late summer before hog producers see break-even conditions.
Ag Progress Days: Vegetable oil looks like tractor fuel
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. — The future looks rosy for a blue tractor that’s pulled away from the diesel fuel pump in favor of a new and experimental fuel: vegetable oil. New Holland and Penn State researchers proudly displayed their brainchild, a NH T7060 that runs on straight vegetable oil — the same kind you use
Enjoy the gifts of an early fall
“I spent the afternoon astraddle the ridge of the new barn-loft roof laying down a ridgecap, a course of overlapping shingles that covers the seam where the shingles meet from each slanting roof face. It would have been difficult not to have been happy up there. The fall migration of monarch butterflies, stunning creatures of
Corn rot woe could persist this spring
WOOSTER, Ohio — With corn still in the bins and spring bringing warmer temperatures, growers may not be out of the woods just yet when it comes to moldy grain and mycotoxin problems. Wet conditions in the fall followed by a late corn harvest resulted in the development of ear rots and the presence of
Weekly outlook: Storage decisions
Producers must make pricing and storage decisions for that portion of their crop not already priced.
Don’t let an amusing roundup get your goat
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt writes about how easy it is to have subjects to write about – especially when that includes the great goat roundup.
Mixing it up in the pasture
Having a mixed stand, whether for hay or pasture, has several benefits. Including legumes can reduce nitrogen needs for the field.
Profitability: What are we asking cows to do?
Debt. A four-letter word, but not necessarily a “bad” word. The majority of Ohio’s dairy farms have debt, and it makes good business sense for them to have debt and manage it wisely. Our farms grow when additional returns generated by a carefully planned investment made using borrowed dollars exceed the interest owed on the
