Registration OPEN!: 2025 Ag Lender Seminars by OSU Extension
Professional Development for Professional Lenders October 2025 9:00 am – 3:00 pm In-person seminars at four locations across Ohio. Expert speakers on agricultural issues that impact producers, landowners, and lenders. Lenders acquire tools and resources to help growers and customers…
eBarns On-Farm Research 2025: Available Online
The eBarns report was created in 2022 as an extension of the eFields program. This annual report contains on-farm studies focused on applied livestock, forage, and manure management research across Ohio. Find forages, dairy, beef, small ruminants, manure nutrients, and swine research projects highlighted…
Basic Reproduction and Breeding Systems of Meat Goats
This article has been reposted from the OSU Sheep Team Newsletter. To view the original article, click HERE.
Cattle Market Responds to Human Case of New World Screwworm
– Dr. Kenny Burdine, Extension Professor, Livestock Marketing, University of Kentucky As I write this article for Cattle Market Notes Weekly on August 25th, the cattle market is absorbing a US case of New World Screwworm (NWS). It appears that…
Smooth Bedstraw
– Jordan Penrose, Ohio State University Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator, Morgan County (originally published in Ohio Farmer on-line) Over the past couple of months, I have received several questions about a weed that is appearing in pastures and hayfields. That…
Rapid Drying Conditions Emerging Across Ohio
Author(s): Aaron Wilson Climate Summary It is hard to believe, but after the 8th wettest June-July on record for Ohio (1895-2025), we have dry conditions rapidly emerging across southern Ohio. At the same time, despite the earlier season deluge across the…
Lep Monitoring Network – Fall armyworm, Corn Earworm and European Corn Borer # 18
Author(s): Amy Raudenbush, Nic Baumer, Frank Becker, Trevor Corboy, Don Hammersmith, Mary Jo Hassen, Seth Kannberg, Alan Leininger, Ed Lentz, CCA, Clifton Martin, CCA, Jordan Penrose, Beth Scheckelhoff, Frank Thayer, Kyle Verhoff, Jacob Winters, Curtis Young, CCA, Andy Michel, Kelley Tilmon Fall Armyworm Update We just completed our 18th week of monitoring moth pests in Ohio ran from…
Fall Lambing Considerations
John Anderson, Lambshire Polypays, Wooster, Ohio (Previously published with the Eastern Alliance for Production Katahdins (EAPK): March 6, 2025) Experienced Polypay producer, John Anderson of Lambshire Polypays in Ohio, shares some sage advice and techniques on how he successfully lambs in…
Forage Analysis has likely never been so important
– Stan Smith, PA, Fairfield County OSU Extension With what became known as perhaps the worst drought in Ohio history in 2024 followed by an extremely wet spring of 2025, perhaps never more than now has the adage “you can’t manage…
Cover Crops and Manure Following Wheat
Authors: Glen Arnold, CCA, Sarah Noggle, Kyle Verhoff Following wheat harvest is a great window to get field work started and apply manure to farm fields. We can do a few things to best capture and utilize the nutrients from our manure,…
