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By Amanda Meddles, Steve Prochaska and Glen Arnold, OSU Extension This year Farm Science Review is celebrating its 50th show. It is amazing how far agriculture has come in 50 years. One thing we have learned in those 50 years is how important nutrient placement is for crop production and environmental sustainability. Ohio lakes have [...]
Read MoreThree state agencies jointly launched the Ohio Clean Lakes Initiative, a program geared to improve water quality and reduce Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the Western Basin of Lake Erie. HABs are threatening the ecological integrity and economic impact of Lake Erie, one of Ohio’s most precious natural resources. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the [...]
Read MoreBy Ty Higgins, Ohio Ag Net On June 19, USDA Secretary Vilsack introduced financial assistance to support 23 new partnership projects in several Mississippi River Basin states. Assistance comes through NRCS’s Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative. “We are building on our Mississippi River actions from previous years by continuing to target priority conservation practices [...]
Read MoreBy Matt Reese I think I have convinced my children that I am pretty smart. They are at the ages where they ask copious amounts of questions. And, every time they ask me a question, I have an answer for them. “Daddy, why is this soccer ball round?” “So it rolls after you kick it.” [...]
Read MoreAgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $2 million in financial assistance through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to help farmers in designated parts of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana prevent phosphorus from entering Western Lake Erie Basin waterways. The announcement is part of an effort to improve water quality and support jobs in the region that are [...]
Read MoreThe Directors’ Agricultural Nutrients and Water Quality Working Group spent months compiling their extensive findings on how agriculture is contributing to water quality problems and how this can be controlled. The group was assembled to aggregate all of the available information on the problem, organize it and present it to the directors of the Ohio [...]
Read MoreBy Matt Reese At the Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference in Ada this week, attendees were bombarded with photos charts and graphs illustrating the water quality problems in Ohio. A glass full of green ooze scooped out of Lake Erie, an algae filled spray behind a jet ski, countless charts showing a steady drop then [...]
Read MoreBy Matt Reese With regard to managing phosphorus, the 4Rs are easy to talk about, but it is much harder to actually implement the right source, at the right rate, in the right place at the right time. “No matter what you do, there are times where there will be run-off and enough water to lose dissolved [...]
Read MoreBy Matt Reese The monumental problem of phosphorus fed algal blooms in Lake Erie creates conflict between two powerful forces: food and agriculture versus drinking water for 5 million people and a $10 billion recreation industry. Ohio agriculture continues to sit and wait (maybe somewhat nervously) on the inevitable announcement from Governor John Kasich concerning [...]
Read MoreComing up on March 2nd, OSU Extension Assistant Professor Jim Hoorman will be speaking at the Soil Quality and Cover Crop Workshop. Ty Higgins gets a preview of the event. Call (513) 732-7075 for details and to register.
Read More| Commodity | Month | Last | Change |
| Electronic Corn | Jul | $6.6200 | +0.0350 |
| Electronic Corn | Sep | $5.6350 | +0.0375 |
| Electronic Corn | Dec | $5.3475 | +0.0425 |
| Electronic Soybeans | Jul | $14.9950 | +0.0525 |
| Electronic Soybeans | Aug | $14.1450 | +0.0900 |
| Electronic Soybeans | Sep | $12.9950 | - 0.0050 |
| Electronic SRW Wheat | Jul | $7.0325 | +0.1475 |
| Electronic SRW Wheat | Sep | $7.0975 | +0.1400 |
| Electronic SRW Wheat | Dec | $7.2300 | +0.1250 |
| Electronic Soybean Meal | Jul | $437.0 | - 3.6 |
| Electronic Soybean Meal | Aug | $410.6 | +0.2 |
| Electronic Soybean Meal | Sep | $383.2 | +1.9 |
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| Denatured Fuel Ethanol | Jun | $2.628 | -0.018 |
| Denatured Fuel Ethanol | Jul | $2.494 | -0.019 |
| Denatured Fuel Ethanol | Aug | $2.393 | +0.006 |
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| Commodity | Month | Last | Change |
| Live Cattle | Jun | $119.125 | - 0.875 |
| Live Cattle | Aug | $118.200 | - 1.025 |
| Live Cattle | Oct | $121.700 | - 0.825 |
| Lean Hogs | Jun | $94.200 | - 0.350 |
| Lean Hogs | Jul | $93.025 | - 0.400 |
| Lean Hogs | Aug | $91.800 | - 0.275 |
| Feeder Cattle | May | $131.625 | +0.000 |
| Feeder Cattle | Aug | $142.650 | - 1.675 |
| Feeder Cattle | Sep | $144.950 | - 1.750 |
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| Commodity | Month | Last | Change |
| MILK CLASS III | May | $18.52 | +0.02 |
| MILK CLASS III | Jun | $18.30 | +0.20 |
| MILK CLASS III | Jul | $18.60 | +0.21 |
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May 23, 2013
Analysis of today's markets from Mike Zuzolo of Global Commodity Analytics