USA: Young Ohio farmers tackle wet, warm planting season

Published Jun 11, 2024

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Martha and Andrew Winters, eighth-generation farmers in Ohio, faced challenges due to a wet and warm spring, leading to delayed planting in June. Despite these setbacks, their crops are showing promise with high moisture levels. They are experimenting with various techniques and treatments, including sulfur application for soybeans and modifying their planter for improved downforce and depth control. They are also considering drone-assisted fungicide applications for corn and are concerned about grain prices. Additionally, they are managing Andrew's recent Crohn's disease diagnosis, seeking assistance and restructuring their farm business to cover the high cost of necessary medication.

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Editor’s note: While USDA Crop Progress reports can provide insight into what’s going on in a certain state, having boots on the ground is the best way to hear and see what’s really happening on farms. This year, we’re continuing an ongoing series called Field Snapshot to provide growers a view of what’s happening on farms throughout the region. Today, we hear from a crop farming couple from Ohio. It was a wet and warm spring for Martha and Andrew Winters, who farm 2 miles west of Fremont in Ohio’s Sandusky County. It wasn’t ideal, and it pushed planting to the beginning of June. On a few acres of corn ground, they were unable to terminate a cereal rye cover crop when they would have liked and were forced to plant soybeans into massive cereal rye. For 2024, they are experimenting with a soybean sulfur application, have decided to take the coulters off the planter for next year, bought a new combine, are penciling out return on investment with drone fungicide applications on corn, ...

Source: Farm Progress