Agronomy and Farm Management

For many parts of Ohio, water management used to mean draining water off a field. Today, with drier summers, it can mean a wider range of activities. Dr. Vinayak Shedekar is the state specialist for agriculture water management. He has conducted extensive research in not only drainage, but many aspects of field water management.

In this episode we will talk about current trends in water management, what research is underway and what farmers can expect from the future of the drainage industry. For more information, please visit: go.osu.edu/agwater.

Join Bruce on this unedited episode from Ask the Expert at the 2024 Farm Science Review! Bruce sits down and talks with Mike Estadt, Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator from Pickaway County, about the carbon markets and its potential for farming operations.

The 2024 Farm Science Review is quickly approaching. Make plans to join us September 17-19 at the Molly Caren Ag Center, home of the Farm Science Review. It’s all hands on deck with this episode as the four podcast hosts join forces to share what agronomy and farm management related topics you can find at this year’s show. Highlights include the Agronomy Plots, Ask the Expert and Digital Ag field demos.

To purchase tickets, visit your county Extension office or buy online at fsr.osu.edu. The program, including presentation schedules, will be posted on the website soon. The show is open September 17-18 from 8am-5pm and September 19 from 8am-4pm. See you there!

On this week’s episode of the Agronomy and Farm Management Podcast, Josh moderates a discussion with Bruce and Kane Lewis, Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator in Scioto County, to discuss both Quicken and QuickBooks. Both Quicken and QuickBooks are different accounting software’s that can be used for farm businesses.

*Disclaimer – our discussion today is strictly for educational purposes on how we believe the software is applicable to farm record keeping.  We are not implying an endorsement or judgement on any commercial software names mentioned.

Agrivoltaics is combining agriculture and solar energy production. In partnership with Savion Energy, we were awarded a Department of Energy grant to investigate the feasibility of forage production, grazing and impacts on solar health at the Madison Fields solar site near Rosedale, Ohio.

In this episode we share the details of the project and what we have learned so far in our first growing season. You can follow along on our progress at Energize Ohio.

To find details on upcoming field days, please visit: https://agcrops.osu.edu/events.

On this week’s episode of the Agronomy and Farm Management Podcast, Bruce and Josh talk to Eric Richer. Eric is an Assistant Professor and Field Specialist in Farm Management with The Ohio State University. In this episode, Eric talks about some of the considerations when making the decisions to add grain bin storage to an operation.

There is nothing more frustrating than getting rejected at the elevator due to high vomitoxin (aka DON) levels. DON is produced by a fungi produced on the ear and is usually infected at the time of pollination. To give farmers a better perspective of what happens behind the scenes at a grain elevator, we interview 3 grain merchandisers on their process when DON test levels start creeping up.

Jason Beckman (Poet), Lisa Mitchell (Gerald Grain), and Seth Miller (The Anderson) take us behind the scenes of their operations to look at testing, grain flow and market impacts. We end with some quick reminders about DON management and to check the C.O.R.N. Newsletter for updates and research on corn fungicide and disease.

On this week’s episode of the Agronomy and Farm Management Podcast, Bruce and Josh talk to Jeff Lewis, Program Coordinator for OSU Income Tax Schools & ANR Extension. Jeff talks about employees on the farm and some of the legal obligations associated with employees and independent contractors.

Dr. Aaron Wilson joins us for our summer weather update. We look back on a spring that was quite opposite of last year and what we can expect this summer. We also answer listener questions on a variety of weather topics!

Sign up to receive quarterly updates from the State Climate Office: climate.osu.edu. Check out mrcc.purdue.edu/ to find useful tools such as the GDD calculator and freeze predictor. You can also reach out to Aaron at [email protected].

On this week’s episode of the Agronomy and Farm Management Podcast, Bruce and Josh talk to Dr. Seungki Lee, Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics. Dr. Lee examines the May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report and gives his thoughts on what the report predicts for the 2024 crop year.