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Four Major League Baseball teams are partnering with the National FFA Organization for FFA Day at the Ballpark events this summer. The Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds are offering FFA members, their families and friends, teachers, FFA alumni and FFA supporters specially discounted tickets to attend a game. The [...]
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There is always a potential struggle for farmers who grow corn, soybeans and hay in the busy springtime schedule. Which takes priority, cutting hay or planting corn and soybeans? For Louie Rehm, who grows corn, soybeans and hay and also raises beef cattle in Wayne County, the high value of the crop resulting from a [...]
Read MoreA September 2010 tornado took it away. Now, support from elected officials and the state of Ohio will help bring back an even better version of the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering‘s building on the Wooster campus of Ohio State University’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC). A groundbreaking ceremony for the new building was held Friday, May 10. Attending were university [...]
Read MoreThe House Energy and Commerce Committee reauthorized the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA). “Cattlemen and women rely on new and innovative animal health products, and for that reason the reauthorization of ADUFA has been one of the NCBA’s key priorities this year,” said Scott George, president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. “I am [...]
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First responders often have to deal with situations that many of people never wish to never see in a lifetime. These unsung heroes recently got into a scenario that many farmers are familiar with — livestock handling. A grant provided by the Animals for Life Foundation allowed the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation and Ohio State [...]
Read MoreLegal issues regarding manure hauling, as well as issues surrounding equipment inspections and highway safety, will be discussed by Ohio State University experts and others during a joint workshop and meeting of the Midwest Professional Nutrient Applicators Association June 11 in Findlay. The workshop is targeted toward livestock producers, growers, professional nutrient applicators, crop consultants [...]
Read MoreCrop producers have until June 3 to decide whether they will participate in the Average Crop Revenue Election plan or continue with the regular Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payment Program. Both programs, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, are intended to help protect farm revenues. Under DCP, there are two types of [...]
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It is an unsettling sight no soybean growers wants to see — entire fields dying shortly after emergence. This, though, is an unfortunate reality in some fields around Ohio. On May 14, Asgrow Dekalb agronomist Jeff Rectenwald was scouting fields for a customer in Auglaize County when he came across the aftermath of Pythium seedling [...]
Read MoreOhio State University Extension and the Ohio State Bar Association will again partner to host the fifth annual Ohio Agricultural Law Symposium on June 23 and 24, 2013. The focus of this year’s program is representing Ohio’s farm and agri-business clients. Two nationally respected practitioners will teach for the Symposium. Allen Olson from Albany, Georgia, who has farm clients throughout [...]
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The wheat crop in Ohio is now at or just past Feekes Growth Stage 8 (flag leaf emergence) and will likely reach the heading and flowering growth stages towards the end of May and early-June. Frequent rainfall and drastic changes in temperatures over the last 7-10 day have led to some concerns about disease development [...]
Read More| Commodity | Month | Last | Change |
| Electronic Corn | Jul | $6.5275 | +0.1125 |
| Electronic Corn | Sep | $5.5600 | +0.0225 |
| Electronic Corn | Dec | $5.1950 | -0.0450 |
| Electronic Soybeans | Jul | $14.4850 | +0.2100 |
| Electronic Soybeans | Aug | $13.7850 | +0.2450 |
| Electronic Soybeans | Sep | $12.8950 | +0.1800 |
| Electronic SRW Wheat | Jul | $6.8325 | -0.0450 |
| Electronic SRW Wheat | Sep | $6.9100 | -0.0500 |
| Electronic SRW Wheat | Dec | $7.0750 | -0.0550 |
| Electronic Soybean Meal | Jul | $425.1 | +10.2 |
| Electronic Soybean Meal | Aug | $402.0 | +10.3 |
| Electronic Soybean Meal | Sep | $374.0 | +8.0 |
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| Denatured Fuel Ethanol | Jun | $2.671 | +0.043 |
| Denatured Fuel Ethanol | Jul | $2.543 | +0.029 |
| Denatured Fuel Ethanol | Aug | $2.422 | +0.022 |
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| Commodity | Month | Last | Change |
| Live Cattle | Jun | $119.400 | - 0.500 |
| Live Cattle | Aug | $118.550 | - 1.175 |
| Live Cattle | Oct | $121.975 | - 0.900 |
| Lean Hogs | Jun | $91.525 | - 1.350 |
| Lean Hogs | Jul | $90.975 | - 1.575 |
| Lean Hogs | Aug | $90.150 | - 0.750 |
| Feeder Cattle | May | $133.900 | - 1.125 |
| Feeder Cattle | Aug | $143.375 | - 1.750 |
| Feeder Cattle | Sep | $145.700 | - 1.700 |
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| Commodity | Month | Last | Change |
| MILK CLASS III | May | $18.52 | +0.01 |
| MILK CLASS III | Jun | $18.36 | - 0.09 |
| MILK CLASS III | Jul | $18.73 | - 0.20 |
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May 16, 2013
Analysis of today's markets from Mike Zuzolo of Global Commodity Analytics