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Holiday greeting from the Ohio Ag Net
Dale, Ty and Heather practiced really hard to bring you this special Christmas performance. Merry Christmas!
Ohio’s Opportunities with Utica Shale and Oil
While at the 2011 Ohio Grain Farmers Symposium, Dale Minyo talked with Dale Arnold about the boon caused by shale and oil in Eastern Ohio. Dale_Arnold_long
Ohio House passes legislation to redefine ag to include algae and digesters
State Representatives Jim Buchy (R-Greenville) and Lou Gentile (D-Steubenville) today announced the unanimous passage of House Bill 276 from the Ohio House of Representatives. House Bill 276, which Buchy and Gentile jointly sponsored, clarifies the definition of agriculture as it pertains to Ohio zoning laws, a change that will enable farmers to use farm byproducts ...
Genuity VT Double PRO receives approval
By Andy Michel and Ron Hammond, Ohio State University Extension entomologists The EPA has just received approval for their Genuity VT Double PRO product to be planted with a refuge in the bag (RIB) strategy. With the RIB, refuge plants are blended with the transgenic plants such that there is no need to plant ...
Ohio Soybean Council Annual Banquet
Dale Minyo emceed the Ohio Soybean Council’s Annual Banquet and also had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Jeffrey Wadsworth. Wadsworth is the CEO at Battelle and accepted the Outstanding Achievement Award at the event. Others recognized for their service on the OSC Board at the event were Chairman Allen Armstrong (Clark County) and Dan ...
USDA works to develop international markets
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing in approximately 70 U.S. agricultural organizations to help expand commercial export markets for their goods. Vilsack made the announcement during a conference call with reporters from Vietnam, where he is meeting with officials to help strengthen trade relations in the Asia ...
Costs squeezing bottom line for dairy producers
With high forage costs and grain prices threatening profit margins for dairy producers, a Purdue Extension agricultural economist says it’s important to keep an eye on the bottom line. The preliminary U.S. all milk price for October 2011 was estimated at $19.90 per hundredweight, which is a decrease from September but up about $1.40 from ...
AUDIO – NAFB Trade Talk 2011
The 68th Annual National Association of Farm Broadcasting Annual Meeting took place in Kansas City, Missouri this week. Dale, Heather and Ty were all there to not only attend many of the events of the week, but to also cover Trade Talk. This event corrals many major players in American agriculture so broadcasters from around ...
Von Stein Farms of Hancock Co.
We enjoyed spending time at the Von Stein Farm in Hancock County as part of Feeding Farmers in the Field. Dean, Dennis and their children were all buy in the field even with the very wet conditions.
AFBF offers its farm bill proposal
Stating that government agricultural support programs traditionally were intended to provide a safety-net to help farmers deal with “large systemic risk issues” rather than “smaller fluctuations in income” that can result from “average weather and market events,” the American Farm Bureau Federation sent a farm program proposal to Congress that is an alternative to earlier ...
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