CropsOhio's record-wet August helps soybeans but raises rot risk in corn at harvest
After 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.
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Ohio's second-oldest farm grows sod without insecticide or plastic netting, and the river rebuilds its soil each spring
Turpin Farms near Cincinnati, in the same family since 1785 and an Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award winner, uses endophyte grasses, mycorrhizae and growth regulators to turn out turf in four to five months instead of a year or two.
Livestock
Flood-soaked hay can mould, heat and even catch fire, Ohio extension warns
After more than 10 inches of August rain flooded parts of Ohio, OSU Extension is telling livestock farmers to check stored bales, baleage and silage for mould, contamination and heating, and not to feed anything that was under water.
Environment
How gullies turned an Ohio family's 700 acres into an 8,000-acre strip-till showcase
Bill and Shane Kellogg of Hardin County, honoured with an Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award, credit grid sampling since 1999, banded nutrients through strip-till and the 2014 Toledo water crisis for turning their farm into a demonstration site.
Environment
Two earthworms in ten shovels: the count behind an Ohio small-farm conservation award
Don Hammersmith of Defiance County went from no-till for lack of time to diverse cover-crop mixes, poultry litter and precise nutrient rates, and now finds a worm in almost every spadeful, earning the new small-farm category of the Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award.
Environment
Ohio names six Conservation Farm Family Award winners, adding a small-farm category
The Braddock, Kellogg, Hammersmith, McKown, Wolfe families and Turpin Farms will be honoured on 24 September at Farm Science Review in a programme founded by Ohio Farmer magazine and now run by the Ohio Department of Agriculture.