Harold Watters, Extension Agent AgNR

OSU Agronomic Crops Team Programs 2008

Agronomic Crops Team programs

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

    The Western Research Center Agronomy Day is July 8th from 1:30 to 5PM near South Charleston in Clark County, with a dedication of the new office building at 10AM.

    The Western Ohio Darke County Agronomy Day is August 13th starting at 5PM. http://darke.osu.edu/ag/ag.htm

for Winter programming 2009 we have the Plant Pest - Pathology & Entomology Workshop scheduled February 4th, 2009

LOCAL Agronomy and Pesticide Applicator Recertification

LOCAL Hay & Pasture Program

Pasture Walk - May 29th evening from 6-9PM

Cable Acres Farm - Dagger Families
4145 E. Rte. 296, Urbana OH 43078

Scheduled in conjunction with Clark, Shelby, Miami and Darke County pasture walks. We are the first of the season locally.

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2008 Pesticide Applicator Recertification, is over for private applicators as of March 31st : Check http://pested.osu.edu or call our office 937 484-1526.

2007 or maybe 2008 Farm Bill information & interpretation from the OSU Ag Economists! See this web connection: http://aede.osu.edu/resources/special/farmbill/

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 (16Apr08)

We had no ASR in Ohio last fall, even though it was found around us. There is minimal buildup yet this spring on kudzu in the southeast US. This year Mexico is part of the monitoring system for rust - in case ASR comes into Ohio from the southwest track. Plant pathologists are also watching the southeast pathway that may bring rust into Ohio. Champaign County is once again a sentinel plot site for the network - we received updated training just last week.

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 April, 2008   

Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents 2007-08

Barry Ward, Leader Production Business Management

OSU Extension & OSU Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics (AEDE)

This link will connect you with a pdf of Barry's April 30 report:

2008 OH LandValue CashRent

Also, check with your local OSU Extension Office for local land value/rental survey summaries. 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.