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2025 Issues

January 15, 2025 Issue

  • Recipes for Keeping Trough Water Running in Winter
  • Next Farm Office Live is Friday, January 17
  • Preparing Small Ruminants for Kidding and Lambing
  • Ohio Virtual Beef School begins January 29: An evening with Kenny Burdine
  • Adjusting for Cold Weather
  • SCOTUS to Decide Fate of Nationwide Injunction Against Corporate Transparency Act
  • Cold Stress and Beef Cows
  • 2025 Soil Health Webinar Series

January 2, 2025 Issue

  • 2025 Coshocton County Pesticide & Fertilizer Re-Certification Sessions Planned
  • Where do we go from here?
  • Maintaining Forage Stability Amid Instability 
  • Ohio Backyard Flock Biosecurity Webinar - January 15
  • Carbon Opportunities Workshop - January 15
  • Solving Calving Problems - January 23

December 19, 2024 Issue

  • Slow Drought Recovery Continues
  • Warm-Season Grasses Play Drought Defense 
  • Federal court puts Corporate Transparency Act ownership reporting on hold
  • Livestock Water Development 
  • Dealing with Cold Calves
  • Farm On Financial Management Course

December 4, 2024 Issue

  • Farm Emergency Planning
  • Winter Application of Manure in Ohio
  • Farmer Tax Webinar 2024
  • Cull Cows – Right Way Right Time
  • Christmas Tree: Real or Artificial? Why not do both!
  • Practical Tips to Improve Calf Welfare in Cold Weather
  • Workforce Development in Food and Agriculture

November 20, 2024 Issue

  • Drought Slowly Eases Across the State
  • All About Grazing - Is the Grass Dead or Dormant?
  • Spotted Lanterfly (SLF) Update
  • Fall 2024 Regional Weeds Unversity
  • Winter Feeding Beef Cows on Pasture
  • Farmer Tax Webinar 2024
  • Your tax questions answered

November 6, 2024 Issue

  • Corporate Transparency Act reporting deadline remains January 1, 2025
  • Beef Quality Assurance, November 18
  • Warm Season Native Grasses; A drought resistant forage?
  • Fall 2024 Regional Weeds University
  • Drought related fencing issues
  • Farmer Tax Webinar 2024
  • Don't Guess Hay Quality - Test It!

Ocober 23, 2024 Issue

  • Beef Quality Assurance, November 18
  • BUG ALERT: Boxelder Bugs and Other Fall Home Invaders are Poised to Make Their Move
  • Fall 2024 Regional Weeds University
  • Stocking rates, genetic choices, and their impacts on our forage in pastures
  • Carbon Capture and Storage: Coming Soon to Ohio?
  • Drought 2024: Winter Feeding Options for Beef Cows

October 9, 2024 Issue

  • Coshocton County Fall Foliage & Farm Tour on October 19-20
  • Hurricane Helene's Effect on Soybean in Ohio
  • Wait Until Late October to Control Perennial Broadleaf Weeds
  • Drought to Frost: Feeding Safe Forages
  • 2024 Buckeye Shepherd's Symposium Annouced
  • Feeding storm-damaged soybean grain to cattle 
  • Drought 2024: Winter Feeding Options for Beef Cows

September 25, 2024 Issue

  • Considerations when Conditioning Too-dry Soybeans
  • Caring for drought-stricken pastures
  • Cattle on Feed and Record-High August Fed Cattle Weights
  • Winter Feeding Options for Beef Cows - October Programs
  • New Ohio Hay Directory and Additional Drought Resources
  • Emergency CRP Haying and Grazing

September 6, 2024 Issue

  • USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Has Assistance Programs for Ohio Farm Operations Impacted by Drought
  • Using Drought Stressed Soybeans for Hay or Silage
  • Drought Stressed Corn for Corn Silage
  • Alternative forage option when the rain finally comes
  • Drought and Dust: Preparing for Winter Feed Shortages
  • Farm Science Review Tickets Available 

August 28, 2024 Issue

  • Dry Conditions on Corn - Implications and Recommendations 
  • Tick Talk: Tick and Tick-Borne Diseases - Sept. 5
  • 2024 Statewide Sheep Shearing School - A Few Spots Still Remain! - Sept. 20-21
  • Farm Science Review Tickets Available
  • Making Decisions During Drought 
  • All About Goats Webinar

August 14, 2024 Issue

  • Manaing Forage to Finish 2024
  • Two August Field Days to Explore Barriers and Benefits of Crop and Livestock Integration
  • Managing Cool-Season Pastures for Enhanced Fall Growth
  • Be Mindful of Fall Armyworm, Which Could Get Interesting
  • 2024 Statewide Sheep Shearing School Annouced - Sept. 20-21
  • Wayne County Forages Field Night and Pasture Walk: September 4, 2024

July 31, 2024 Issue

  • Play the Short, Medium, and Long Game Strategies to Maximize Returns
  • Mechanically Controlling Weeds in Pastures
  • August Field Day to Explore Barriers and Benefits of Crop and Livestock Integration
  • Battle for the Belt: Season 2, Episode 18- Planting Date and Weed Control Interactions
  • Comparing Net Returns for Alternative Leasing Arrangements
  • Tick Talk
  • Canning Basics

July 18, 2024 Issue

  • Part 1: Is it time to cull the mature female and replace her with a heifer?
  • Part 2: The different classes of slaughter cows
  • Ohio Farm Custom Rates 2024
  • Risk of Corn Grain Contamination with Vomitoxin in Ohio in 2024: A July 15th Projection
  • Register for Soil Health Field Day on August 15
  • The Summer Grazing Plan
  • Grazing Management Lunch and Learn: Stockpiling Forages
  • 2024 Ohio Beef Day
  • Breeding Season Considerations for Sheep and Goats
  • Pasture Walk Scheduled – Goat Production

June 26, 2024 Issue

  • Managing Heat Stress of Beef Animals
  • Ohio Beef Day to be held in Crawford/Marion Counties
  • Pasture Walk Scheduled – Goat Production
  • Upcoming Dicamba Cutoff Reminder
  • Application of Manure to Double Crop Soybeans to Encourage Emergence
  • “Okay, so I have an “employee” on my farm, now what?”
  • Planning for Future of Farm Workshop to be held in Cortland, Ohio
  • Common Mullein- Mother Nature’s Answer to our Toilet Paper Shortage?
  • Two OSU Extension Food Preservation Workshops This Summer
  • Sweet song of birds fills the summer air

June 12, 2024 Issue

  • Letter from Coshocton Public Health district about increase in Lyme disease cases
  • I’ve Got a Day, Let’s Make Hay!
  • Beef with a Business Mindset
  • Slug Management Considerations and Statewide Slug Monitoring Report
  • Honeysuckle; Friend or Foe?
  • It’s high season for Ohio’s noxious weeds laws
  • The Basics of Vaccinating Sheep and Goats
  • Three Common Genetic Defects to Review when Buying or Selling Sheep
  • FAMACHA Training
  • Freeze Drying and Canning Workshops

May 22, 2024 Issue

  • Kill Poison Hemlock Now!
  • Adapting to New Challenges in the Beef Cattle Business
  • Base Acre Updating in the Next Farm Bill
  • Pledge to Prepare the Next Leader of Your Farm Operation

May 1, 2024 Issue

  • Lep Monitoring Network – Black Cutworm and True Armyworm Update # 2
  • Yellow Flowers of Concern
  • Pasture Walks Scheduled
  • Foreign Investments in Ohio Farmland
  • Practical Considerations for the Use of Sexed Semen in Beef Herds
  • Sun Safety

April 17, 2024 Issue

  • Enhancing Sacrifice Grazing Lots: Solutions for Winter Mud Challenges
  • Pasture Walks Scheduled
  • Big Swings Ahead for Planting, Growing and Harvest Season
  • Spring 2024 Weather & Soil Conditions: Update 3
  • 2024 Second Quarter Fertilizer Prices Across Ohio
  • FAMACHA Certification and Fecal Egg Count Workshop Announced in Wayne County Ohio

April 3, 2024 Issue

  • Practical Considerations for Managing the Spring Flush
  • Spring Forage Establishment
  • All About Goats! Spring Webinar Series
  • Don't Let Your Farm Insurance Be an Afterthought
  • Ohio Farm Custom Rate Survey Launched for 2024: Responses Requested

March 20, 2024 Issue

  • What to Watch for with Asian Longhorned Ticks and Theileria in Ohio in 2024
  • Pushing EPD’s into Dollars
  • Cow/Calf Producers; Share your insight and help shape the future!
  • Using Drones for Spray Application - Adoption Trends in US and Worldwide
  • Coshocton County OSU Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator Position is Posted for Application
  • All About Goats! Spring Webinar Series
  • East Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference
  • Dining with Diabetes

March 6, 2024 Issue

  • Coshocton County OSU Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator Position is Posted for Application
  • All About Goats! Spring Webinar Series
  • Managing Pastures for Calving
  • Beef Webinar Series Continues
  • 2024 Corn College and Soybean School Recordings Available
  • OSU Extension Farm Office Live to be held on Friday, March 15 from 10:00 to 12:00 noon
  • Dining with Diabetes
  • Congratulations Pearl Valley Cheese!

February 28, 2024

January 31, 2024

January 4, 2024 Issue

 

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