Harold Watters, Extension Agent AgNR

Sheila Callicoat, AgNR Office Associate

phone 937 484-1526

OSU Agronomic Crops Team Programs 2009

Farm Science Review Certified Crop Advisor College information

September 24th from 8AM to 12 noon on the grounds of Farm Science Review just north of London, Ohio at the intersection of US 40 and SR 38.

FSR CCA College Agenda

FSR CCA Registration Form

Other Agronomic Crops Team programs:

 check the AgCrops Calendar: http://agcrops.osu.edu/calendar/

Fall Weed Survey issues in Soybeans:

We seem to be having some issues with Marestail in our soybeans this fall, this factsheet from Mark Loux, OSU Weed Scientist, suggests some management techniques: LouxMarestail09_2

for Winter programming 2009/10 we have the Plant Pest - Pathology & Entomology Workshop planned for Shelby County

Area Pasture Walk Programs

For 2010 we expect to have a Champaign County Pasture Walk on May 27th. Contact OSU Extension Champaign County in the spring of 2010 for more information.

Scheduled in conjunction with Clark, Shelby, Miami, Montgomery and Darke County pasture walks. Plan to attend all.

Other summer programs:

Livestock Mortality Composting Certification
Roger Bender and Tim Fine conduct these sessions in the area on an as needed basis, contact Roger at the Shelby County Extension office to see when the next program is planned ph 937 498-7239 or bender.5@osu.edu.

Farm Bill sign-up decision making questions?

ACRE vs. Traditional (DCP) commodity program CALCULATOR available from Gary Schnitkey's University of Illinois, farmdoc website: http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/fasttools/index.asp

Click here to get the SURE disaster calculator from the Farm Service Agency: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/fbapp?area=home&subject=landing&topic=landing

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Homeland Security Issues for the farm 2008

A couple of recent rulings and interpretations may affect farmers:

An Extension interpretation from Wisconsin, a pdf file: Chemical Security Regulation

More information on DHS’s Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards may be found at:
www.EDEN.lsu.edu/agrosecurity/DHSChemical

See the CORN Newsletter for agronomic crops planning updates.

ALSO

Several of us in West Central Ohio have re-started the West Central Ohio Crop & Weather report for crop, pest and weather related issues affecting crops producers in Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Logan, Mercer and Miami Counties. We'll update this regularly to provide insight on local crop specific concerns. This is an additional service of the OSU Extension Agronomic Crops Team and the C.O.R.N. newsletter.

--- For daily updates see our West OH Crop Weather Blog: http://westohcropweather.blogspot.com/

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Asian Soybean Rust Update

See the USDA website for the Soybean Disease and Insect updates throughout the cropping season.

For the USDA soybean rust website: http://www.sbrusa.net/

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As of June, 2008   

Two pieces of information that are now on Ohioline as Factsheets:

Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents 2007-08
http://ohioline.osu.edu/ae-fact/pdf/Cropland_Values_Rents_07_08.pdf

Ohio Farm Custom Rates - 2008
http://ohioline.osu.edu/ae-fact/pdf/Custom_Rates_08.pdf

from: Barry Ward
Assistant Professor - OSU Extension
Leader, Production Business Management

For additional information on farmland lease issues see the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics (AEDE) Farm Management webpage at: http://aede.osu.edu/Programs/FarmManagement/MgtPublications.htm

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Lease Agreements?

The Midwest Plan Service offers free examples of leasing agreements for farm land, buildings, and pastures.  These were developed by farm management specialists from North Central Land Grant Universities.  

This is the web site: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mwps_dis/mwps_web/leases.html
These forms provide owners and renters with a guide for developing an agreement to fit their situation. However, they are not intended to take the place of competent legal advice pertaining to contractual relationships between two parties.  The Midwest Plan Service has many other resources as well, (publications about ag. engineering, building design, air quality, manure management, agribusiness, tillage, and grain handling),  the main web site is: http://www.mwps.org

The Ohio State University Extension web site called Ohioline includes a series of fact sheets about farm rents and leasing, http://ohioline.osu.edu/fr-fact/index.html . Topics include cash and share rental of land, tax and legal considerations, an agreement checklist, building rental, and one about tenant and landlord relations.   

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Information on Custom Rates?

http://aede.osu.edu/Programs/FarmManagement/MgtPublications.htm

This site includes the Ohio 2006 information as well as information from other cornbelt states.