COLUMBUS – Growers who want to make sure they get their corn crops off to a good start this season should make sure they perform tillage only when necessary and under the proper soil conditions, cautions a field crops expert with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University.
COLUMBUS – While cold weather and cool soil temperatures have made many Ohio corn fields unsuitable yet for spring planting, growers who haven’t begun planting shouldn’t worry because there’s still time to plant and expect good yields, said an agronomist with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University.
WOOSTER – Large populations of black cutworms reported last week in Indiana and Kentucky means Ohio farmers can soon expect to see the migratory moths in the Buckeye State, an entomologist with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University said.
COLUMBUS — There’s a growing army working to improve Ohio’s water quality. Since last fall, the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University has provided fertilizer applicator certification training to 6,439 Ohio growers responsible for farming some 927,000 acres of Buckeye state farmland, and the numbers continue to grow.
SOUTH CHARLESTON – Nutrient management experts in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University are asking farmers, producers, agriculture agencies and others to complete a survey on how they receive and use information on manure nutrient management.
The High Flyers 4-H Club met April 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Epworth United Methodist Church.
Farmers take advantage of technology to successfully grow a crop.
DES MOINES, Iowa — America’s Pig Farmer of the Year award program is accepting applications until May 17 at americaspigfarmer.com.
The Jumbo Jr. Farmers 4-H Club met on Monday, April 13 at the McDonald Township Hall to elect their officers.
Finding out solutions to problems and issues in agriculture is a task that involves local input and one of the ways OSU Extension helps address the needs of local producers is through on-farm applied research. Protocols are followed to set up field trials and data is collected throughout the growing season.
