Cover Crop Considerations After Wheat
By: Jason Hartschuh, OSU Extension AgNR Educator, Crawford County (originally published in The Ohio Farmer) Wheat provides many additional opportunities for your operation. These options include drainage improvements, weed-control timing, double-crop soybeans, double-crop forages, compaction mitigation, and soil building through cover…
Late Planted Corn Silage Yields Value
By: Garth Ruff, OSU Extension Henry County; Jason Hartschuh, OSU Extension Crawford County; Allen Gahler, OSU Extension Sandusky County (originally published in Ohio Farmer on-line) The combination of poor quality hay made in 2018, historic alfalfa winter kill, and excessive rainfall across most…
Buying Hay; Consider Quality and Value
By: Garth Ruff, Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension Educator, OSU Henry County Extension As 2018 was a lousy year for making dry hay across the state, 2019 wasn’t much better or perhaps worse yet. For those who have to purchase…
Your Hay Storage Impacts Quality and Quanity
By: David Dugan, OSU Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Adams County With the calendar turning to November, and the temperatures dropping below freezing several mornings now, the time to feed hay is near, if not already here. Several have…
Hay, just how bad is it?
By: Ted Wiseman and Dean Kreager, OSU Extension You may be thinking enough already with the hay quality talk. Many articles have been sent out on this topic starting before some people even baled their first cutting. Last year a…
