Northeast Ohio Crop Progress Report

Welcome back to a new season of the Northeast Ohio Crop Progress & Weather Report. For those of you who are new to this blog, Northeast Ohio Crop Weather is site dedicated to the production of agronomic crops in Northeastern Ohio. It is designed to keep crop farmers informed on the latest developments in crop production across the area. It is one of several blogs that have been developed by members of the Ohio State University Agronomics Crop Team across the state of Ohio. The purpose is to deliver a regional update that supports and adds to the information distributed by the Crop Observation and Recommendation Network (CORN) Newsletter. You will find a link to this the valuable source of information in the right hand column of this blog.
For the next two months this blog will be updated every two weeks. Once we get into planting season and the crops start growing it will be updated weekly. What can you expect to find in this blog? You will receive a running account of the crop progress of all major crops including corn, soybeans, wheat, oats and forage crops. The information will come from extension educators, crop consultants, and from local farmers like you. That is why to make it as accurate as possible we need to have you contact myself Les Ober Geauga Co. or David Marrison, Ashtabula County. You can call, or Email mail me or David anytime to tell us what you are seeing or if you have problems. You will also get an update of the local weather; rainfall amounts, growing degree days. All of these are under the subtitles on the right hand side. If necessary there will be Pest Alerts to make you aware of insect or disease problems locally. You will also get other valuable information and agronomic tips that can help you in the day to day operation of your farms. There will be a calendar of events that will inform you of upcoming meetings and field nights. A lot of information and all you have to do is down load the site onto your computer. Hope you will make it one of your favorites and visit the site on a regular basis. Every week we will try to make it better. price have been on the rise with new crop Chicago Wheat futures well above $9.00. The Ohio wheat crop has a long way to go but with prices like this it may not be a bad time to offset some of your production costs.

Corn & Soybeans: Too early for a report but new crop prices are very good and it may be a good time to finalize your plans for the upcoming season.

In the mean time hope to see some of you at the winter meetings or at Pesticide Recertification