Tag: farm management
Tip to tackle your subsurface field tile maintenance
If tile lines are checked, maintained and repaired correctly, they will last their life expectancy or longer. Check out these maintenance tips.
Ohioans win national tree farm award
Randy and Koral Clum, who own a certified tree farm in Harrison County, Ohio, have been named the 2018 National Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year.
Food hubs connect healthy food, farms, and communities
The Building Regional Food Hubs Conference will host Ohio food leaders to discuss the challenges and opportunities for producers in food hub models.
Get ready for retail: Selling farm products at grocery stores and...
What do you need to do before selling farm products at restaurants and grocery stores? Here's all the information you need to enter retail markets.
Market demand backs quality cattle
The only new money in the beef industry is in consumers’ pockets. When they demand more premium quality beef and producers adapt to provide it.
Don’t ignore your dry cows
Attention to dry cow management results in healthier cows, and the potential for increased production and economic gain.
6 steps for protecting stored grain quality
Here are six recommendations to help farmers avoid income loss due to out-of-condition grain.
How to communicate the value of local food to customers
Farmers can communicate the true value of local food through conversations, samples, in-store signage, newsletters, menus, blogs and vlogs, and agritourism.
Dairy exodus: Ohio has lost 172 dairy farms in 12 months
Too many years of poor milk prices and unpredictable markets for milk, cull cows, breeding stock, and feed have taken their toll, and more dairy farm families are agonizing over their future as milk producers.
Save money, use livestock to harvest hay
Using livestock to make later cuttings of hay is one of the best opportunities producers have to reduce costs and make more profit year after year.