Ohio Ag Net | Ohio's Country Journal Ohio Ag Net | Ohio's Country Journal Corn planting season is right around the corner and we want to help you make sure your planters are in top running condition. Beck’s Practical Farm Research Innovation Lead, Jason Webster takes you through a few check lists to help make sure your planters are running correctly.… Continue reading
Read More »AgTube: First Bags of Asgrow Roundup Ready 2 Xtend Soybeans Delivered
Asgrow Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans are now commercially available and making their way to farms across the country.… Continue reading
Read More »AgTube: Case IH 2000 Series Early Riser Planter Highlights
Introducing the newly designed 2000 series Early Riser Planter.… Continue reading
Read More »2016 National Farm Machinery Show Highlights
The 51st National Farm Machinery Show will host more than 300,000 attendees as they visit over 850 exhibitors covering 27 acres inside the Kentucky Expo Center. The Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins found some of the highlights of the 2016 show.… Continue reading
Read More »AgTube: AgriGold Soybean Launch
AgTube: One of the Largest Farms in the World
Li Sheng Li and Joep Driessen on one of the biggest farms in the world, very well managed by the Chinese. Highlights: They have one feeding space and one resting space per cow. Also, there”s have a stress-free calving line. They are doing a good job within the system they have. Some more details: 20.000 milking cows, 8 rotaries of 80 cows. 1 barn is almost 4 hectares. Within half an hour they have the milk packed and shipped. Top quality milk, low cell count: 150.000. What do you think of this farm? Please share your thoughts! Professor Li Shengli of Sino-Dutch Dairy Development Centre (SDDDC), in which Friesland Campina also has a part.… Continue reading
Read More »2015 Beck’s Hybrids Practical Farm Research results
For the third year, Beck’s Hybrids have surveyed Practical Farm Research, or PFR trials, at their London, Ohio facility. The purpose of the PFR program is to test situations that farmers need to make decisions about for upcoming seasons, like how to manage nitrogen, whether or not to foliar feed a crop, testing products that are currently available and studying different cultural practices used by farmers all over Ohio. Get some of the results from Beck’s Team Sales Agronomist Alex Johnson.
See the full PFR Ohio results… Continue reading
Read More »AgTube: A New Approach to Building Consumer Trust
Consumers aren’t sure they can trust the way food is produced today, skeptical “Big Food” will do what’s right for people, animals and the planet. To build consumer trust, it’s time for a new approach.… Continue reading
Read More »Beck’s – Hybrid Corn Breeding
Beck’s Research Series is a set of videos designed to take you on a journey through their elite research and development program. A program built to reflect what is most important to farmers – getting the best product on the field.… Continue reading
Read More »AgTube: Tractor Christmas Light Show
Tractors & excavators wrapped in Christmas lights set to Carol of the Bells by Sauniks. Video shot from drone. Dubstep Christmas Lights.… Continue reading
Read More »Deere Tracks – Christmas Edition
What do you get when you mix a Tractor, a Drone and 10″ of Snow?
A TWO ACRE MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Hopefully Santa will see it when he flies over on Christmas Eve!… Continue reading
AgTube: All I Want for Christmas is a Goat
AgTube: Farmers Feed The World – Peterson Farm Bros.
Wild Soybean Breeding
Checkoff-funded researchers in North Carolina look to ancient soybean lines to see what valuable traits may lie inside and benefit today’s soybean growers.… Continue reading
Read More »AgTube: 16-Row Potato Harvest
Carl Taylor from Taylor Farms in Idaho Falls, Idaho, presenting Spudniks 16 row harvesting system. With eight 6 row windrowers and four 4 row harvesters they are able to harvest between 400 – 450 acres a day. The biggest advantage was to reduce tractors and operators from their harvesting operation. In addition they were better able to utilize their truck fleet and reduce bruising due to the higher capacity of the machines and fewer machines in the operation.… Continue reading
Read More »Are there antibiotics and hormones in your pork?
Recently, the Ohio Pork Council hit the streets to talk to folks about antibiotics and added hormones in their pork.… Continue reading
Read More »Preparing fields for 2016
Bill Mullen, Director of Agronomic Services with Seed Consultants, discusses some of the strategies to consider to prepare fields for the 2016 crop.… Continue reading
Read More »AgTube: Tour of How Antibiotics Are Used on the Farm
Dr. Brad Jones, a veterinarian with the University of Nebraska and Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center takes viewers on a virtual tour of a livestock production facility to show the decision-making process regarding antibiotic use in cattle and pigs, including the diagnosis of illnesses, treatment and antibiotic use considerations and how animals are tracked from antibiotic administration to harvest.… Continue reading
Read More »AgTube: Cover Crop Seeding at Harvest
Beck’s Practical Farm Research (PFR)® innovation lead, Jason Webster, evaluates a new piece of equipment that will be utilized in seeding cover crops this fall at Beck’s London, Ohio PFR Site.… Continue reading
Read More »AgTube: Teaching A Cow to Jump Like A Horse
This is no show pony, folks. This is a truejumping cow!
When her parents wouldn’t buy her a horse, Regina Mayer, a 15-year-old farm girl from Germany, resolved herself to finding a suitable alternative. She found exactly what she was looking for in a well-tempered cow on her family’s farm.… Continue reading
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