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Pioneer Crop Update – Planting Intentions
Pioneer Hi-Bred Account Manager Chasitie Euler talks about planting intentions, this year’s wheat crop and seed corn quantities with Ty Higgins in this week’s Pioneer Crop Update. Chasitie Euler Acre Intentions
Is there enough seed for a replant?
By Ty Higgins, Ohio Ag Net It is unprecedented that Ohio farmers start rolling corn planters during the third week of March, but that was exactly what some did, getting 2012 off to a really early start. So what is the advantage? According to Steve Prochaska, Ohio State Extension agronomy field Specialist, there isn’t one. ...
Photo proof of corn up in Illinois
Blake Roderick of the Pike & Scott County Farm Bureaus shared this photo of corn up in southern Illinois. Next Monday the first Weekly Crop Progress Report of the season comes out and we’ll learn what farmers have been up to in Ohio and across the Midwest. This Friday USDA will release their Prospective Planting ...
Farm Science Review changes golf cart rules
The Farm Science Review has announced that new for the 2012 show the only mode of transportation that will be allowed for attendees will be a golf cart, electric scooter, segway or approved disabled unit. The Farm Science Review is a pedestrian show and therefore, pedestrians always have the right-of-way. However, it is noted that ...
Mark Dowden
Mark Dowden farms in Logan and Champaign Counties in some of Ohio’s richest farmland. The young farmer is never afraid to share his often-colorful opinions about every aspect of agriculture. He is particularly concerned about weed resistance issues after a recent trip to Tennessee to see the extensive problems they are facing with weed control. ...
Billy Pontius
Billy Pontius is only in his late 20s, but is one of the larger and more respected farmers in Fairfield County. He grew up farming with his father but, when his father passed away when Billy was 18, he found himself running a big operation with much yet to learn. The learning curve was a ...
Jim Herring
Jim and Phil Herring, of Wyandot County, are soft-spoken brothers that know how to produce massive corn yields on their farm just outside of Harpster. In their first-ever yield contest participation, the brothers were first and second in Ohio, respectively, and second and third in the nation in the “AA Non-Irrigated Class” of the National ...
Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas is a dairy farmer with some cropland, but he is better known as the former five-time IHRA Alcohol Funny Car World Champion. He raced his way to fame promoting the performance benefits of ethanol all the while. For nearly 20 years, this outspoken farmer used his racecar as a 250 mile-per-hour billboard promoting ...
Ohio Livestock Care Board Meets; Goeglin named new director
The Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board held their first meeting since November. It was also the first meeting under new Ohio Director of Agriculture, David Daniels. The board spent time reviewing the standards they set last summer. “We went through all the areas and suggested a few small changes, primarily in the euthanasia area,” Jeff ...
J D Equipment adds new store in Zanesville, Ohio
J D Equipment, of London, Ohio, has announced they will be expanding to their eighth John Deere store in Zanesville, Ohio. J D Equipment has worked with Finton Equipment to purchase their existing store in Zanesville, and became the new owners effective March 19, 2012. Due to John Deere’s dealership realignment, Finton Equipment will close ...
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