Tag: crops
5 tips for a strong growing season
Growing a high-quality corn silage crop starts at day one. Now is the best time for producers to build a plan for the upcoming growing season.
Crop adviser tips on being profitable
Certified Crop Advisers from Ohio and Pennsylvania share the biggest challenges facing crop farmers this year, and what a crop adviser can do to help.
Farm pest biocontrol developed in N.Y. sought nationwide
Using biocontrol nematodes as a non-chemical management practice could reduce damage by alfalfa snout beetle and other field crop and fruit pests.
Farmers can be ‘cautiously optimistic’ about 2018
Cash receipts are likely to improve at the close of the current year, and into 2018, but farmers should take the good news with a grain of salt.
Syngenta obtains gene-editing technology
Syngenta has attained a non-exclusive IP license from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology.
New resources on field crop diseases
The Crop Protection Network produces collaborative Extension outputs on diseases affecting field crops in the United States and Canada.
Corn rust threatens southern Ohio fields
Southern and common rust have been more prevalent in southern Ohio cornfields this year. Farmers have had to replant several times.
A new appreciation for coffee
Learn more about what it takes to operate a coffee farm in Hawaii — how much land is required, how much hired help and what do you use for fertilizer?
OSU plans muck crop field day
The latest research on muck crops will be shared with Ohio growers at a July 27 field day in Huron County.
