Videos

This month, Seed Consultants is hosting Winter Meetings all across Ohio to go over results from 2017 test plots and to discuss viable options for a successful 2018. Mike Early is one of the presenters for these meetings and he is unveiling results from planting depth and emergence studies. The Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins has more.… Continue reading

On Monday, Beck’s Hybrids will begin hosting Practical Farm Research Insight Meetings across Ohio. The Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins visited with Ohio PFR Location Lead Jared Chester about some 2017 results and some highlights that will be shared at the upcoming meetings. Get a list of meeting dates and times at www.BecksHybrids.com.… Continue reading

Have you made your 2018 soybean decisions yet? Here are some tips from Seed Consultants​ about what to consider as you get your #plant18 plans in order.… Continue reading

With the 2017 holiday season, Ohio Ag Net’s Dale Minyo traveled to Oak Harbor, Ohio to see the good work of Riders Unlimited, a non-profit group focused on giving mentally and physically challenged individuals opportunities through interactions with horses. Sunrise Cooperative, alongside other agricultural companies, have become essential sponsors of the organization over the years. We hear from Sunrise Cooperative CEO George Secor, Riders Unlimited’s Rebekah Recker, and more in this video on the heartwarming actions underway in agriculture.… Continue reading

The Kin Family from Wyandot County received the 2017 Charles Boyles Master Shepherd Award from the Ohio Sheep Improvement Association and the Ohio Sheep and Wool Program.… Continue reading

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 2018 as he looks at his Brodbeck Seed guide.… Continue reading

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.… Continue reading

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.… Continue reading

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.… Continue reading

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 the group that sat down for the conversation in the video below.… Continue reading

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 soon developed into a project with a vastly larger scope. It focused on U.S. and global poultry production and welfare.

Beck’s work began when she was in ninth grade and started looking closely into broiler production factors and exactly how the birds grew. She also learned how to determine meat quality. By her senior year, Beck was investigating alternative methods for replacing antibiotics.

“I was looking into the gut health of the chick,” Beck said. “I was looking into the microbiology of chickens and doing probiotic research.”

In her lab trials, Beck has been testing different types of bacteria to determine their viability.… Continue reading

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 chapters this year.

Congratulations to the Ohio FFA’ers that are vying for a national placing in the contest.

Winners will be announced at the sixth general session Friday afternoon at the 90th National FFA Convention in Indianapolis.… Continue reading

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 brand but, after 50 sun-faded harvests under its belt, had a slightly different shade of the iconic colors. Take a look at this Cab Cam, driven by Fennig Equipment.… Continue reading

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.… Continue reading