Acreage report: Some Ohioans switched to soybeans
Ohio’s farmland planted to corn is down 13 percent from 2007; soybeans up 11 percent.
Archive for July 21st, 2008
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BOSTON — Farm Aid co-founder John Mellencamp announced last week Farm Aid 2008 will take place Sept. 20 at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Mass.
Grain and oilseed prices continue to rise in June
Ohio’s June corn price of $6.67 per bushel is up $1.13 from May, and the state’s June soybean price of $13.90 per bushel is up $1.80 from May, and $6.18 above what was received at the same time last year.
Mission to convert biomass to ethanol
WASHINGTON — The Dow Chemical Company and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have signed an agreement to jointly develop and evaluate a process that will convert biomass to ethanol and other chemical building blocks.
The collaborative effort demonstrates both Dow and NREL’s commitment to deliver sustainable solutions to the nation’s current […]
AVMA members encourage change in veal calf housing
NEW ORLEANS — The American Veterinary Medical Association delegates voted July 19 to pass new policy on veal calf housing that promotes both animal health and welfare.
The resolution passed by a 88.7 percent vote.
This new policy states “that the AVMA supports a change in veal husbandry practices that severely restrict movement, to housing […]
Grants keep local farming going
COLUMBUS — Ohio communities that want to try innovative ways to enhance the viability of local agriculture and the health of area farms can apply for funding from the Center for Farmland Policy Innovation at Ohio State University.
Three goals
“Overall, we have three goals for this program,” said Jill Clark, director of the OSU’s Farmland […]
Tinkering with CRP could be costly
When Farm Journal’s late staff economist John Marten explained the-then new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the mid-1980s, he did so with a clever memory tool.
“CRP isn’t complicated,” Marten once told a large crowd (which included me) back then, “if you remember the ‘Four Ws’: West, Wheat, Wet and Windy.”
CRP will be called many […]
Bugs aren’t causing too much stink
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — They’re big, they’re distinctively aromatic, and they’re coming to a home near you. Stink bugs are on the move across Pennsylvania and a bug expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences said we should get ready for an extended stay.
Halyomorpha halys, better known as the brown marmorated stink bug, has […]