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In a recent story on our website, we explained the interesting process underway in our studio to convert old episodes of Agri Country, starring Ed Johnson, to digital. The weekly show often focused on holidays as the years progressed and the role agriculture and life in the country has in celebrating them. It is in [...]
The Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins traveled to Preble County to visit with Brandon Monebrake from Petry Farms on their last day of harvest. They talked about how this years corn harvest is going….and going…and going, the performance of the hybrids and varieties he planted this season and what he is thinking of doing in [...]
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue took time to sit down with Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins as he visited the National Association of Farm Broadcasting annual convention in Kansas City. A number of topics were covered by the two in this interesting time for agriculture. More in this video below.
As challenging as the harvest season has been, wheat planting has been equally as difficult. Despite the late start in many areas of Ohio, the state’s wheat crop is off to a good start according to Seed Consultant’s Matt Hutcheson.
After a challenging corn and soybean growing season, it comes as no surprise that harvest is not status quo. Seed Consultants’ Matt Hutcheson talks about issues farmers are seeing as they bring in this year’s crop.
Matt Reese and Joel Penhorwood borrowed several Ohio FFA State Officers from their busy time at the 2017 National FFA Convention. The team has been staying hard at work with delegate sessions, meeting officers from other states, and gaining ideas to take back home. Ryan Matthews, Lane Heil, Evan Callicoat, and Milan Pozderac are among [...]
Since third grade, Chrysta Beck of Archbold has raised broilers and layers to sell meat and egg products to local customers. As she got older and joined FFA, she developed a supervised agricultural experience (SAE) that would look into the health of poultry. But what started as research to assist her with personal production goals [...]
An astounding 25 FFA members from Ohio are finalists in the national proficiency competition. Proficiency is one of the key competitions in FFA, where members are judged off work completed through their Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE), depending on category. The video below highlights nearly all the hard working young people representing Ohio and their respective [...]
Ty Higgins had to stop when he saw some soybeans being harvested between Galena and Sunbury in Delaware County with two very different combines running in the same field. The one Perry Buxton was driving looked like many green and yellow combines you see this time of year. The other machine was of the same [...]
As farmers bring in the 2017 corn harvest, Beck’s Hybrids is looking at the importance of what is left behind once a field has been harvested. Here is more information about their Practical Farm Research study on corn residue at Beck’s London, Ohio facility, including testing of the Capello chopping corn head.
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| Electronic Corn | May | $3.7650 | -0.0550 |
| Electronic Corn | Jul | $3.8550 | -0.0550 |
| Electronic Corn | Sep | $3.9300 | -0.0550 |
| Electronic Soybeans | May | $10.2875 | - 0.0850 |
| Electronic Soybeans | Jul | $10.4025 | - 0.0875 |
| Electronic Soybeans | Aug | $10.4200 | - 0.0850 |
| Electronic SRW Wheat | May | $4.6325 | -0.1350 |
| Electronic SRW Wheat | Jul | $4.7725 | -0.1350 |
| Electronic SRW Wheat | Sep | $4.9575 | -0.1275 |
| Electronic Soybean Meal | May | $374.1 | +0.8 |
| Electronic Soybean Meal | Jul | $378.6 | +0.8 |
| Electronic Soybean Meal | Aug | $378.5 | +0.2 |
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| MILK CLASS III | Jun | $15.30 | - 0.09 |
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April 15, 2018
Videos we found interesting and thought maybe you would too.