Videos

What can be learned at harvest to help in making 2017 a success? Denny Wickham with Brodbeck Seeds visits with The Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins about what notes to take as harvest ramps up.… Continue reading

Dry weather, stalk quality and pest pressures are just part of a long list of issues that this year’s corn crop has faced throughout Ohio. Bill Mullen, Director of Agronomic Services for Seed Consultants, talks about the importance of evaluating fields before harvesting them.… Continue reading

Many farmers in the Champaign County area are shelling corn amid concerns of stalk quality and all eyes are on the early yield monitor to see what is really out there after a challenging growing season. The Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins jumped in to run some corn with Mike Adams.… Continue reading

We live in a world that’s ever changing, agriculture included.

But some things tend to stay the same down the years. The American farmer is an example of one of those non-wavering ideals.

Watch as we take a look back at “The Farmer” poem written by Dave Boyers and read by Ed Johnson, originally aired on the television show AgriCountry in 1983.

In 33 years, little seems to have changed about this way of life.… Continue reading

It seems that over the past few years when it comes to the corn and soybean crops, Ohio has been no stranger to variation. Bill Mullen with Seed Consultants says that variation will also be seen within the field this year and much of it will depend on soil types and hybrid selection. He suggests that farmers need to check out their fields to see if an early harvest will be necessary.… Continue reading

Ashton Frey of Upper Sandusky exhibited the 2016 Ohio State Fair Grand Champion Market Barrow with his light crossbred. Ohio Ag Net’s Dale Minyo spoke with Ashton about the win.… Continue reading

Kady Davis of Carroll County won the 2016 Grand Champion Pen of Meat Chickens at the Ohio State Fair on August 4th, 2016.… Continue reading

It was an exciting first day of the 2016 Ohio State Fair for Kylee Johnson of Wayne County. Her crossbred lamb was named Grand Champion of the Jr. Market Lamb show. Ohio Ag Net’s Dale Minyo spoke with Johnson on the exciting win. She will visit the Sale of Champions on August 7th.… Continue reading

Paige Pence of Clark County was the exhibitor of the 2016 Ohio State Fair Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb, selected on Wednesday, July 27th.… Continue reading

“A pretty incredible 40-year exercise on his part,” said Doug Loudenslager of his father’s unique collection. “There’s over 6,000 pieces.”

Don Loudenslager, who passed away at the age of 80 in 2014, spent the last several decades visiting sales and auctions amassing thousands of toy tractors, trucks, and other items. About 95% of the collection will be up for sale in the coming days, with hopes by the family that the toys will be put to use in a positive way for many years to come.

“There are lots and lots of nice pieces that we’re trying to price in a way that encourages folks to put them in their own collections. For it to stay here, it’s just going to deteriorate or something bad is going to happen,” said Loudenslager. He encourages visitors to come during the three-day sale, even if it’s just to experience the immensity of the collection.… Continue reading

In her last year of showing as a Jr. Exhibitor, Taylor Carr of Athens County captured the Grand Champion banner in the Market Wether Goat Show on the Saturday before the 2016 Ohio State Fair. Ohio Ag Net’s Joel Penhorwood visited with her on the win.… Continue reading

To apply fungicide or not to apply fungicide? That is the question many farmers are having to answer. Bill Mullen, Director of Agronomic Services with Seed Consultants gives his advice on whether an application is necessary this year.… Continue reading

The dairy industry’s constant search for the most cost effective and efficient production options has resulted in some unique technological changes in recent years. Milking a cow with robots, something thought of as near science fiction not long ago, is now being accepted as the way of life on a number of Ohio dairies.

Bar-Lee Jerseys, a family dairy farm in Willard, has in the past months put the technology to work. Jason Nuhfer is the fifth generation to milk and breed registered Jersey cattle.

“I graduated from Ohio State in 2008. At that time we started doing some facility improvements,” Nuhfer said.

A new free stall barn was added his graduation year. The calf barn was brought on in 2011 and the robotic milking system started the first of December this past year. Two Lely Astronaut A4 Robots were installed, each able to handle about 60 cows each.

“As we’ve done these facility improvements, kind of our number one goal was cow comfort — to keep that in mind,” he said.… Continue reading

The Syngenta Grow More Experience Site in Irwin, Ohio, one of 60 such locations across the country, was host last week to retailers from around the state hoping to step up their agronomic knowledge in order to pass it on to Ohio’s farmers.

“We have several retailers out and our goal today is for our retailers to actually come out and get an experience of what Syngenta has in our pipeline as well as some future technologies,” said Leon Hunter, agronomy manager for Syngenta East Heartland. “And one of the key objectives of today is to share with them a lot of different things that are happening agronomically. It’s not as much product focus, it’s more around the agronomic things that they can do to provide more education to their growers on how to produce more crop.”

Hunter noted some important lessons that have been highlighted from the agronomic side.

“One of our key focuses this year is to do some education around the Soybean Cyst Nematode and some of the portfolio products that we have to bring awareness to how devastating this particular disease can be.… Continue reading