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Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is making a push for support from Ohio farmers as he looks to win back his old Senate seat this November.
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As we enter the latter part of July, the crop season is now well underway with some important trends emerging.
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Fire crews in Delphos were called to a fire in a grain dryer earlier Monday. According to fire officials, crews responded to Bunge Ag in the 200 block of South Jefferson Street around 4:40 p.m. Upon opening the dryer, they found heavy smoke coming from soybeans.
It is not a shock that it has been very dry lately. According to the Drought Monitor issued on September 26th, all of west-central Ohio is in at least moderate drought with severe drought to the north and southeast of Lima. Extreme and exceptional drought has ravaged much of central and southeastern Ohio. On Friday, I traveled to the Auglaize County Ohio State University Extension Office in Wapakoneta where I was told that topsoil conditions are not great.
As the harvest season continues, farmers in our area are seeing a nice yield of corn and soybeans. The agriculture educator for the Ohio State extension office says that yields are above average for corn in our area, and soybeans are right around what we usually see.
With temperatures soaring back into the 90's the last few days, we checked with an expert on how that could impact crops.
Soybeans are Ohio's top crop when it comes to agricultural exports, but as the U.S. and China continue proposing retaliatory tariffs, our farmers could start feeling the effects.
