Webinars offer specialty crop advice
COLUMBUS -- Countryside Conservancy and the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association are offering a series of free webinars designed for specialty crop growers.
Congress fixes misinterpretation of farm bill base-acre provision
WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation to suspend for the 2008 crop year a farm billprovision that required producers to have...
Walmart pushes sustainability index
Walmart threw its global shoulder into a sustainability product index initiative last week. Forget cap-and-trade legislation, ignore international commissions. Follow the smiley face instead.
OARDC names Brummet executive director of BioHio Research Park
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Ohio State University's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center has named Shauna R. Brummet as president and executive director of its...
Midwest flooding hits the grain market: Acreage not certain, but high prices are
URBANA, Ill. -- While corn prices have moved sharply higher as production expectations were scaled back, it is still not clear how much rationing...
Keep an eye on the corn-wheat dynamic
While many factors will shape and re-shape corn’s influence on wheat prices, the ongoing battle for planted acres will drive continued market volatility.
If you want to manage soybean diseases, start with the seed
You may have already bought your soybean seed, but double check to make sure you have what you need to fight diseases.
Here come the slugs. Again.
Planting delays and cool weather have slowed corn development, paving the way for a potential issue with slugs in no-till fields.
Angus board approves long-range plan
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- With an eye toward the future, the American Angus Association Board of Directors approved a 5-to-10-year plan outlining strategies aimed at benefiting all users of Angus genetics, from members to commercial cattlemen to consumers.
Don’t expect yields to stay the same in continuous corn rotations
Higher nitrogen rates do not eliminate the continuous corn yield drag during average or poor growing seasons.
