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Manuka oil shows promise as natural weed control agent
WASHINGTON — Weeds have a greater impact on crop yields than any other pests. Over the past several decades, farmers have continually turned to synthetic herbicides because they are the most effective deterrent against weeds.
AEP to partner in Noble County solar facility
AEP Ohio has entered into a participation agreement with Turning Point Solar LLC, a joint venture of Agile Energy Inc. and New Harvest Ventures, to develop one of the largest solar generating facility east of the Mississippi River.
Purple corn: No, you’re not crazy
Growers who have reported finding corn seedlings in their fields that have turned purple or yellow probably don’t need to panic — the color change is likely just a cosmetic problem that will go away on its own.
Really, you can’t make this stuff up
As fast as time usually passes, it seems to pick up even greater speed in the fall. Corn and soybeans, like maples’ leaves, appear to turn golden one day, brown the next and, at least so to me, are gone the next.
Staying engaged: Zippy Duvall shares powerful message to Ohio farmers
One of the highlights for Ohio Farm Bureau leaders was a surprise visit from American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall, during the annual presidents’ trip, March 14, in Washington, D.C.
Is there anything corn can’t do?
BOSTON – Scientists are reporting an advance toward turning corn plants into natural factories for producing gelatin to replace animal-sourced gelatin widely used by the pharmaceutical industry for manufacturing capsules and tablets.
Wrinkles: Shedding light on woes
I didn’t set out to become high-maintenance, really I didn’t. I was tripping along, clam-happy, unmanicured, and completely wash-and-go through my 20s with nary a problem.
Western Pa., Ohio farmers send hay, ag supplies to help farmers hit by Hurricane Helene
Groups from Pennsylvania’s Armstrong, Clarion, Warren, Jefferson, Mercer, Erie and Venango counties made trips south in the past week taking hay and other ag supplies to rural areas hit hard by Hurricane Helene.
Waltrip’s wonder
With help from a Columbus art student and a Missouri crop cutter, Hartville-area farmer-turned-entrepreneur Bill Bakan has fashioned a corn maze complete with the NASCAR and NAPA Auto Parts logos and Michael Waltrip’s No.
From soybean stalks to fiberboard
BELTSVILLE, Md. – Having successfully turned pieces of giant soybean stalks into charcoal briquettes, Agricultural Research Service chemical engineer Justin Barone now believes they would make good fiberboard and other wood-substitute products as well.
