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Yields are down, but still the eighth largest corn crop nationally
U.S. Department of Agriculture releases world supply and demand estimates.
Area crops: Slow but steady progress
Crop conditions have been variable across the region and in each county, according to reports.
Eli Shetler revives lime pile farm technique in Mount Eaton
By ARLEN D. MILLER MOUNT EATON, Ohio — What would motivate a 64-year-old to invest 90 hours of intense labor breaking up 30 tons of hard blue limestone and 7 1/2 tons of coal? On Nov. 27, the day after Thanksgiving, Eli Shetler of Mount Eaton, began building a “lime pile” by laying out 8-inch
CO2 pipelines to stretch across the Midwest
Investors are lining up to build carbon dioxide pipelines to carry CO2 from Midwestern ethanol plants to “sequestration” sites in North Dakota or Illinois.
Holmes SWCD awards annual achievements
Tim Brumme (left) and Ferman Wengerd were elected to the Holmes Soil and Water Conservation District board of supervisors during the annual banquet Nov. 19. WALNUT CREEK, Ohio — This year’s winner of the fifth-grade farm tour essay contest wrote an account “unlike any we’ve ever had before,” Holmes Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor
Ohio Soybean Association announces 2013 yield winners
WORTHINGTON, Ohio — The Ohio Soybean Association has announced the winners of the 2013 Ohio Soybean Yield and Quality Contest. This is the fourth year for the statewide contest, which drew 98 applicants. The state yield champion was Hickory Dell Farm in Cedarville. Hickory Dell Farm recorded a yield of 80.98 bushels per acre with
Penn State uses trial and error to test flower varieties
Penn State Southeast Agricultural Research and Extension Center uses trial-and-error to determine the types of flowers that will grow in the region.
Ohio Cattlemen’s Roundup coming to Jackson County
The Ohio Cattlemen’s Roundup will visit Jackson County Aug. 26-27.
Farmers, say hello to the weather market
Put this week in your diary as the one that determines if we make a weather market run back up on grain prices, or continue the weekend downturn into new lows. Rain will be the reason.
The father of the Green Revolution
If pushed to guess, I suspect that few of the lengthy, laudatory obituaries published the week after his Sept. 12 death would have pleased Norman E. Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy turned hunger fighter. Borlaug, after all, wasn’t into flowers or flowery words. He was a plain-spoken, dirt-on-the-shoes plant breeder whose semi-dwarf and rust-resistant wheat
