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Will pricing crops now reduce risk?
The bottom line is that 2011 is likely to be a profitable year for farmers. Determining just how profitable involves a complicated equation that includes number of bushels per acre, price per bushel, level of revenue protection and hedging.
Understanding bird feeders
Last week I spent two days at a wild bird products trade show in Missouri. It’s a great way to see new products, but I was reminded that truly new feeder designs are hard to find. Improvements and variations on a theme, however, are never in short supply. Any discussion of bird feeders should begin
USDA scientists, cooperators sequence soy genome
WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are part of a team that has sequenced the majority of the soybean genome, providing an unprecedented look into how this important legume crop converts four critical ingredients — sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen — into protein and oil, the basic building blocks for many consumer
Ag groups: EPA harming biofuels industry
SALEM, Ohio — The Environmental Protection Agency is touting its newly proposed renewable fuels standards as earth-saving and job-creating, but ag groups are looking at the plan with raised eyebrows, calling the agency’s goals unattainable and a harm to the domestic biofuels industry. “You are going to kill off the biofuels industry before it ever
Farming a little bit of everything
BIG PRAIRIE, Ohio – These days, niche marketing is a popular buzz word. For Joseph and Marion Yoder, it is a way of life.
Center puts ag innovation into action
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Agriculture is claiming a stronger toehold in the Third Frontier. Ohio’s ag industry gained a little more recognition in the high tech world June 29 as Ohio Gov.
Cancer left him paralyzed, AgrAbility gave him hope
Jeff Austin was left paralyzed from the waist down after having stage 4 cancer. His greatest fear was never getting to do what he loved again — farming.
Don’t take our technology: Farmers talk to legislators
TOWNVILLE, Pa. — The brisk, single-digit temperatures of the winter morning didn’t deter farmers, legislators or the media from gathering at Apple Shamrock Farm to learn about the impact of technology on modern-day agriculture. Crawford County Farm Bureau invited state and federal lawmakers and the media from Erie to Butler to a forum to show
In search of moon trees
Hundreds of trees, including one in Jefferson County, Ohio, have been to the moon. Read the curious tale of how they got there and back again.
Warm weather signals warm season grasses
Planting warm season annual grasses is a feasible way to improve summer pastures or hay fields to maintain dry matter production during the summer slump.
