March 23 and 24, students from across the country will come together online, to learn best practices on sharing the importance of agriculture. It?s part of National Ag Day ? a day that not only celebrates agriculture but provides an opportunity for those in the...
By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Ohio Field Leader: a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and soybean checkoffIt is something we in agriculture have known for generations. Unfortunately, many in society are several generations removed from the farm, and the value of...
By Matt ReeseEast of the Mississippi, the average farm cattle herd size is less than 20. The often-small number of cattle on Ohio farms creates an inherent marketing challenge: it can be tough to put together a good, consistent load of cattle larger operations...
March 23, 2020 -- ...we should see a little improvement in our weather pattern today. Still, over the next 10 days, we have 3 different precipitation threats for Ohio, and that means we are going to finish the month of March wet...
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior EditorJust last Friday, Whiskey Acres Distilling Company was making plans to expand its DeKalb, Illinois-based and award-winning spirits business to Nebraska. But the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic swept those plans...
By DTN StaffOMAHA (DTN) ? Commodity markets finally pushed back Thursday after a week of brutal trading days with futures prices in grains, livestock and energy sectors all ending in the green.Stocks and commodity markets rose despite continued negative headlines and...
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff ReporterFor more than two decades, Joe Spencer has spent many a summer evening standing atop 30-foot-tall towers above corn fields, trying to catch adult Western corn rootworm beetles as they buzz by looking for a place to lay eggs.Lately,...
Yesterday Bayer announced it is joining the U.S. Government?s fight against COVID-19 with a donation of 3 million tablets of the drug Resochin (chloroquine phosphate).Resochin, a product discovered by Bayer in 1934 and indicated for prevention and treatment of...
The Trump Administration has made it clear that the food and agriculture is a critical infrastructure industry in the wake of the coronavirus national emergency, a move that encourages state and local authorities to allow farms and the entire food-supply chain to...
A coalition of Ohio agriculture groups, including Ohio Farm Bureau, sent a letter to Gov. Mike DeWine to highlight the importance of farmers and all of those along the food supply chain amid the state?s COVID-19 response efforts. These organizations are fielding many...
