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Dry Weather Makes Field Fires a Safety Concern for Farmers
converters to exceed 1,000°F. Add a little wind and there is a perfect opportunity for a field fire. Being ... prepared to handle field fires is important for all workers and transport drivers. Combines, tractors, ... the equipment each night, and check for any hot spots. These steps can make a difference to save ...
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Be Patient with Wet Hay Fields
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-18/be-patient-wet-hay-fields
ground that is still too soft, especially if it is a younger stand. So do what is really easy for me to ... forage quality is declining with each day that goes by (and why did I have to state the obvious, right?). ... However, I want to urge hay producers to change their focus and be patient, to make sure their hayfields ...
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Calendar of Events
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-13-issue-6/calendar-events
City January 10-12 Taking research to the field: Implementing Advanced Biology in Ration Formulation ... Software; Agricultural Modeling and Training Systems (AMTS). Cost for attendance is $350 and ... pre-registration is required. For more information, please visit www.agmodelsystems.com or contact Lynn Gilbert ...
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American Farm Bureau Conducting Big Data Survey
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/american-farm-bureau-conducting-big-data-survey
The agriculture technology sector continues to be troubled with “big data” being of interest to ... for farmers and other in agriculture but uncertainty, mostly expressed as skepticism and mistrust, ... industry, but the full extent and nature of its eventual impacts remain uncertain. To help gather farmers’ ...
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Ohio 4-H Conference Registration due in State Office
https://pickaway.osu.edu/events/ohio-4-h-conference-registration-due-state-office
educational selections offer something for everyone, and have the ability to satisfy every taste and need. ... The 2016 Ohio 4-H Conference is designed to bring together 4-H volunteers and teens from across ... the State of Ohio. The objective of this event is to learn together and from each other in order to ...
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Conservation Tillage Club Breakfast Series Planned
provide additional tools for the farmer’s marketing toolbox to use when considering their marketing ... ideas to plan for this coming year’s crop production. February 2 Dr. Laura Lindsey, Assistant Professor ... to help improve water quality in Lake Erie, and has taken that message back to his association. His ...
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New 15 Measures of Dairy Farm Competitiveness Available
questions from producers that led to the development and publication of "Dairy Excel's 15 Measures ... measures. While a single dairy business is unlikely to meet all 15 measures, dairy producers who meet most ... describing each measure in detail. These pages explain each measure, tell how to compute and interpret it, ...
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Ohio 4-H Conference
https://pickaway.osu.edu/events/ohio-4-h-conference-0
educational selections offer something for everyone, and have the ability to satisfy every taste and need. ... The 2016 Ohio 4-H Conference is designed to bring together 4-H volunteers and teens from across ... the State of Ohio. The objective of this event is to learn together and from each other in order to ...
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Topdressing Wheat with Liquid Swine Manure
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2016-05/topdressing-wheat-liquid-swine-manure
portion is readily available for plant growth. The organic nitrogen portion takes considerably longer to ... Research on applying liquid livestock manure as a spring top-dress fertilizer to wheat has been ... ongoing in Ohio for several years. There is usually a window of time, typically around the last week of ...
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Summer Coliform Mastitis,
https://dairy.osu.edu/newsletter/buckeye-dairy-news/volume-6-issue-3/summer-coliform-mastitis
unusual to experience a "heat wave" where temperatures exceed 80 o F in early May. Actually, it ... would be very unusual not to have at least three days where temperatures exceeded 80oF in the first two ... weeks of May. If we look at weather data for Central Ohio, in 67 out of the last 70 years, we have ...