Let’s Celebrate 10 Years Together in 2025!

We are looking forward to celebrating our 10th annual East Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference on March 21, 2025 in Wooster, OH!

We are so pleased that Elaine Froese will be our keynote speaker.

Her superpower is helping families find harmony through understanding. Elaine’s passion is to share simple, practical and actionable tools with farm families so they can talk about tough issues and get traction in their farm transition. Her topics are a catalyst to courageous conversations and conflict resolution. Hear more from Elaine herself…

Registration information is coming soon! If you are interested in supporting this event through sponsorship or being an exhibitor, please reach out to Emily Marrison at marrison.12@osu.edu or Corinna Gromley at gromley.8@osu.edu.

Wednesday Women in Ag Webinar – Demystifying Wine and Food Pairings

Join us on December 4, 2024, for the next session on…

Demystifying Wine and Food Pairing

Join Todd Steiner where he will help demystify wine etiquette and cover basic principles of what wines pair well with certain foods. Principals covered will help you feel more relaxed and confident in having friends over for a fun and enjoyable wine and food pairing event.

Register at this link one time for all the series. https://go.osu.edu/wiawednesdaywebinars2024

The 2024 Series will be on the 1st WEDNESDAY of each month. 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Via Zoom Platform

Farmer and Farmland Owner Tax Webinar

The December Edition of Farm Office Live will be a special edition focused on tax issues. This webinar will be held on December 6th from 10am to noon.

Are you a farmer or farmland owner wanting to learn more about the recent income tax law changes and proposals? If so, join OSU Extension Educators Barry Ward, Jeff Lewis, Robert Moore and David Marrison as they discuss issues related to farmer and farmland owner tax returns, tax planning in a low income/drought year, CAUV and property tax, the Residual Fertility Deduction and other income tax issues that may affect farmers and farmland owners for the 2024 tax season and beyond.

This two-hour program will be presented in a live webinar format via Zoom. Individuals who operate farms, own property, or are involved with renting farmland are encouraged to participate.

Register for this free webinar at https://go.osu.edu/farmofficelive

This Farmer and Farmland Owner Tax Webinar will focus on a number of tax issues listed here:

  • Farm Economy and Tax Planning
  • Tax Planning in Low Income/Drought Years
  • Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Reporting
  • Pending Sunset of Larger Estate Tax Exclusion Amount (Unified Credit)
  • Residual Fertility/Fertilizer Deduction
  • Clean Fuel Production Credit (I.R.C. § 45Z)
  • Current Ag Use Valuation (CAUV) Changes in 2024
  • IRC § 45Q – Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration
  • Farm Loan Immediate Relief Under Inflation Reduction Act: Income Tax Options Triggered by Corrected 1099s
  • Taxability of USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Awards
  • Pending Expiration (Sunsetting) of other Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) Provisions

Presenters include: Barry Ward, David Marrison, Jeff Lewis and Robert Moore.

Basics of Grain Marketing Workshop

Registration is now open for the Basics of Grain Marketing Workshop, January 16 & 17, 2025, at the OSU Extension Champaign County Office in Urbana, Ohio.  This in-person workshop offers education and farm-ready strategies on topics such as basis, market carry, margins, cash markets, forward and futures contracts, hedge to arrive and basis contracts, differed price, hedging, storage, and overviews on options, spreads, and crop insurance.  It’s “more than a 2-day workshop”, featuring pre-workshop activities on calculating grain cost of production and measure of risk comfort. The workshop will include grain marketing basics, applications, and activities, plus a panel of industry professionals.  A post-workshop grain marketing peer group will be offered to strengthen learning and bring it into action with webinar updates.  The workshop has 50 limited seats.

Expert instructors: Seungki Lee, The Ohio State University; Grant Gardner, University of Kentucky; and Ben Brown, University of Missouri.  Hotel block rate deadline: December 15, 2024.  Workshop registration deadline: January 3, 2025.  For more information and registration, visit https://go.osu.edu/grainmarketing

This workshop is made possible by the support of grower checkoff dollars via the Ohio Soybean Council and Ohio Corn & Wheat. It is led by Ohio State University Extension and the Ohio State University Farm Financial Management & Policy Institute.

2024 Southwest Ohio Corn Growers Yield Trial Data for Corn

2024 Southwest Ohio Corn Growers Yield Trial Data results for the corn. There is a PDF version with the planting and harvesting information included and an Excel sheet with the actual sorted data. The QR code will take you to the website, where this data is also available to download and/or share. The soybean data is in the final stages of completion and will be available very soon.