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The Belmont County Fair finds a new home

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 by admin

The Belmont County Fair finds a new home

By Matt Reese “It is the same old thing, but this time it is all new.” Jerry Campbell, president of the Belmont County Fair Board is excited, nervous and scared all at the same time as he leads the effort for yet another Belmont County Fair beginning on Sept. 7. In many ways, it will be the ...

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Corn around Ohio is maturing rapidly. This Seed Consultants corn will be ready for harvest soon.

Case IH just unveiled their new line of tractors which utilize SCR technology, meeting tier 4 regulations. Ohio dealers and a select group of farmers got their first look at the new high horsepower tractors when the Red Power Tour made a stop in Ohio. The new tractors will be back in Ohio at the Farm Science Review.

Matt Hutchenson, Seed Consultants research assistant, talks about calculating corn yield estimates at the Seed Consultants field day just outside of Washington Courthouse.

Dale Minyo visits with Sonny Beck, owner of Beck's Hybrids at their annual Becknology Days in Atlanta, Indiana. The event attracts more than 7,000 people over three days. Click the photo to hear what Sonny had to say.

This is an infrared aerial image of one of the N plots in the On-Farm Network in the Lake Erie Watershed. It shows the strips of different nitrogen applications. The program often shows that N rates between 100 and 150 pounds maximize the profitability of the farm. For more visit http://ocj.com/crops/with-crop-fertilizer-there-can-be-too-much-of-a-good-thing/.

Scott Shearer, with the University of Kentucky, talks about the benefits and challenges associated with Auto Section Sprayer Control at the Central Ohio Agronomy Day. Some fields can have up to 15% savings in chemical applications by eliminating overlap.

Alan Johnson, with Quasar Energy Group, talks about the potential for anaerobic digestion in Ohio. The existing Wooster facility produces enough electricity to power 360 homes. Up to 25% of Ohio's energy purchases could be covered with Ohio's full potential for anaerobic digestion.

Emerson Nafziger talked corn plant population at a recent field day. "If you have a sandy spot that yields almost nothing most years, I'd either plant melons or drop the seed count." Otherwise he generally recommends a seed drop between 30,000 and 40,000 in most cases.

At a recent field day, Anne Dorrance talked about soybean challenges in Ohio this year, including SCN, white mold, sudden death syndrome, and frogeye leaf spot. "We had a great disease year."

Ohio State University Extension corn specialist Peter Thomison discussed some of Ohio's abnormal ears at the SW Ohio Corn Growers field day.

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