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Ag marketer shares 10 steps to help you reach ‘the Top Third’
OBERLIN, Ohio — He may not get you the top prices for the year, but a Chicago-based ag marketer and experienced commodities trader promises to do what he can to get you in the top third. Mark Gold, president of Top Third Ag Marketing, spent the evening of Jan. 30 giving farmers advice on how
Professor’s blog gives support, advice to couples suffering from infertility
URBANA, Ill. — Infertility and isolation are soul sisters, claims University of Illinois family studies professor Constance Shapiro.
FSA Andy: Assistance program offered for renewable energy crops
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced the establishment of four additional Biomass Crop Assistance Program project areas to promote the cultivation of crops that can be processed into renewable energy.
Big bullies: Coyotes are efficient hunters and clever killers
For the most part, coyotes live an invisible life, but in recent years they are showing themselves as bold neighborhood bullies as they adapt to city life.
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’: When’s the right time to start rollin’ rye cover crop?
One USDA researcher estimates that rolling a field of rye uses 10 times less energy than mowing the cover crop. Rolling is also faster and needs to be done only once a season.
Grain market stagnant on lack of news
I can only talk about the March 31 USDA Planting Intentions Report so many times. It will soon be old news, but it is still the market mover right now, which is to say that the market is not moving.
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
Only the land lasts forever
The final Saturday in October swept me three hours south for lunch with my parents and nearly-new grandniece and, later that Halloween afternoon, backwards about 40 years for visits with some ghosts on the farm of my youth. It began as an afternoon drive from my parents’ home in town to the Bottoms, that black
A lesson from a soft drink cup
“Wes Jackson is fond of saying that if your life’s work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you’re not thinking big enough. And no one is thinking bigger about sustainable agriculture than Wes Jackson.” — from People We’re Pleased To Know Chipotle Mexican Grill Recently, I stopped for lunch and a soft drink while out
Flexible Cash Lease Calculator decision aid at OSU farm management
Now, more than ever, big swings in crop prices and input costs points toward negotiating some flexibility in cash leases for farmland. “Volatile” and “uncertain” are two words that might best describe grain prices and input costs for row crop production heading into the 2009 planting season. With this increased volatility and uncertainty, risk increases
