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CropsLow soil pH starves pastures of phosphorus and drives out clover. A soil test in fall, read for buffer pH or exchangeable acidity, tells a grazier whether lime is needed and how much.
VegetablesDave and Carol Stelts won the Ohio Valley weigh-off with a 2,565.5-pound pumpkin, grown on a crowned, drip-irrigated field with heated soil, staked leaves and four years of soil preparation.
LivestockAfter drought and floods in southeast Ohio, a grazing columnist sets out the questions to ask about the grazing plan, paddock recovery, forage species and reseeding before next year's decisions.
CropsAn Ohio conservation district technician sets out which cover crops suit which soil problem, from annual rye and oats to crimson clover, hairy vetch and winter peas that fix 70 to 90 pounds of nitrogen an acre.
LivestockA Farm and Dairy column explains that perennial and winter annual weeds such as Canada thistle and poison hemlock are easier to kill in autumn, when they move reserves to their roots, but warns that some residual herbicides can stop clover seeded later.
CookingGreek yogurt for cream, applesauce for butter, beans and extra vegetables in the pot: a Farm and Dairy column lists easy ways to keep the flavour of comfort food while cutting fat and adding nutrients.
EnvironmentJuvenile lake sturgeon released into Cleveland's Cuyahoga River nearly tripled in length within a year, a hopeful sign for a fish endangered in Ohio and for a river once so polluted it caught fire.
CropsAfter the wettest August on record, Ohio's state climatologist and growers say soybeans may benefit from more moisture while standing corn faces stalk and ear rot.
A policy paper by board director Andy Bater asks lawmakers for a temporary moratorium while the state studies how data centres, and the power lines that feed them, affect farms and small communities.
Capricious LLC in Beaver County sends groups of mostly rescued goats to eat invasive brush on homes and municipal land from May to October, and earns more from a forest carbon programme.
An Ohio State extension specialist urges dairy farmers to test corn silage for DON and zearalenone now and again at feed-out, as the toxins can harm milk protein, rumen health and reproduction.
Ohio State University and Emergent Connext have wired the Molly Caren Agricultural Center to test wide-area LoRaWAN against faster short-range networks for connected farm equipment.
Chris Chmiel, who founded the country's first pawpaw festival at Albany, Ohio, in 1999, has lost almost 70% of his orchard in six years; the only remedy is to cut and burn infested trees, and with no commercial-scale market no company will develop an insecticide, so Ohio State is studying the pest's
