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Pipelines are coming — landowners encouraged to make a ‘scorecard’
With multiple gas pipelines being planned, landowners should be prepared and develop a good lease agreement.
Don’t be the butt log of your harvest
What would you say, if I were to tell you I would give you $25,000 dollars to select cut some veneer quality white oak 20 inches and greater DBH out of your woods.
Outlook for the upcoming year’s crop input, farmland value and cash rent
Cropland values in Ohio have increased again in 2013. Data from the Ohio Ag Statistics Service shows an increase of 12 percent for bare cropland in Ohio for 2013. According to their data, bare cropland averages $5600/acre, up from $5000/acre the previous year. The Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents Survey (AEDE) conducted in January
Cold growing season has slowed crops, but not much
We’ve had a much cooler growing season, but will it matter?
What is it that’s driving farmland value?
Farmland values continue to increase by large amounts each year and have reached record levels in most states in the Midwest, measured by both non-inflation adjusted (nominal) and inflation adjusted (real) values.
Immigration bill would put workers on a path toward citizenship
SALEM, Ohio — Farmers, nursery and landscape businesses and anyone else who relies on immigrant labor saw a hopeful measure last week, as eight bipartisan senators introduced legislation designed to legalize existing immigrants. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Act of 2013 was formally introduced April 17 by four Republican and four Democratic senators
Encore presentation shares fond farm memories
(Author’s note: This is an “encore” presentation of this column, which was first published in 2002.) Christmas on the western Pennsylvania farm where I grew up was a big time for my sister B.G. and me. We’d pore over the Sears Christmas catalog as soon as it arrived and show Mom everything we wanted. She’d
New tomato packs extra cancer-fighting punch
A team of scientists has developed a tomato that contains as much as three times more of the cancer-fighting antioxidant lycopene.
Intensive grazing, composting make Millers unique
Knox County farmers Greg and Beverly Miller of Lone Pine Ranch, Howard, received the statewide Environmental Stewardship Award sponsored by the Ohio Sheep Improvement Association.
Mobile slaughter units are rarely more than a pipe dream
Wouldn’t it be great if the slaughterhouse could just come to the farm? The possibilities of a mobile slaughter unit are often talked about as a solution for farmers grappling with processing issues. Many local butcher shops are working at capacity. Farmers truck their animals great distances just to find the nearest open federal or
