– Christine Gelley, Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator, OSU Extension Noble County The easiest way to decide on a plan for line fence care is communicating with your neighbor. Fence care can make tempers flare between neighbors. Typically, when neighbors have similar goals, an agreeable strategy for fence maintenance can be worked out easily. When [...]
– Kristen Ulmer, Jordan Cox, Manbir Rakkar, Robert Bondurant, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Mary Drewnoski, Karla Jenkins, James MacDonald, and Rick Rasby. Condensed from the Nebraska Research Report on Grazing or Baling Corn Residue by S. Boyles, OSU Beef Extension Specialist For every bushel of corn, 18 lbs. of stems, 5.8 lbs. of cobs and 16 lbs. [...]
– Victor Shelton, NRCS State Agronomist/Grazing Specialist Corn stalks can be an option to allow more time for more forage growth. The older I get, the more I tend to philosophize about things. I’ve been asked a few times why I am such an advocate for sound grazing practices. Best management grazing practices, just like [...]
– Matthew A. Diersen, Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Economics, South Dakota State University Last spring I had the privilege to teach an SDSU course titled “Trading in Agricultural Futures and Options”. An assigned exercise was to propose and evaluate a strategy that could be routinely implemented. Seasonality was a common theme, asking things [...]
– John F. Grimes, OSU Extension Beef Coordinator Nominations are due October 1 for this November 23rd sale in Zanesville. The Ohio Cattlemen’s Association (OCA) is providing an opportunity for both the buyers and sellers of beef breeding cattle this fall. On Friday evening, November 23, the OCA will be hosting their sixth annual Replacement [...]
The 2018 Eastern Ohio Beef and Forage School will consist of three consecutive Tuesday evening classes beginning October 2, 2018 at the Eastern Agricultural Research Station (16870 Bond Ridge Road Caldwell, OH 43724). Classes will be held from 5:30 to 8:00 PM and include a meal. The cost to attend is $25 flat rate for [...]
– Stan Smith, OSU Extension PA, Fairfield County (originally published in The Ohio Farmer on-line) Simply becoming BQA certified is a start, but it isn’t enough anymore. Consumers want to be confident what we produce is nutritious, sustainable and humanely raised. Do you remember when nearly everyone had a friend, neighbor or relative who had [...]
– Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension As I was reviewing Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software (CHAPS) records recently, cow Y1002’s record popped up. Because of the weight of her calves at harvest (93 percent of her weight), she is one of the economic greats of the Dickinson Research Extension Center’s herd. Y1002’s dam is [...]
– Dr. Andrew Griffith, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee FED CATTLE: Fed cattle trade was not well established at press. Asking prices on a live basis were mainly $111 to $112 with bids from $106 to $107. Dressed bids ranged from $168 to $170. The 5-area weighted average prices [...]
– Adam Hady, UW Extension Agriculture Agent, Richland County (article recently appeared in the Wisconsin Agriculturist Magazine) As the summer grazing season winds down and the time is getting near for cow calf producers to wean calves, they might be asking themselves, with the prices of many agricultural commodities, can I add some value to [...]
