Ag Progress Days
Landowners willing to adjust and extend leases
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Many Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic farmers maintain what Penn State Extension Educator and Agronomist David Wilson described as short-term, year-to-year leases, including those that are often verbal.These casual agreements are...
Household food acquisition during COVID-19
(Editor’s note: Brenna Ellison is an associate professor in the University of Illinois’s Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. Melissa Ocepek is an assistant professor in the univeristy’s School of Information Sciences. This article first...
Tips for basic budgeting (Credit Corner)
(Editor’s note: Johanna Rohrer is a marketing specialist with MidAtlantic Farm Credit.) Budgeting is a process of estimating costs and income, while projecting your net profit. Taking the time to craft a budget allows you to create a roadmap on how you...
Transition to organic grain requires long-term plan
LINKWOOD, Md. — When he made the decision to move his farms towards organic practices, Chip Fleming, owner of Breckinridge Farm, admits he “was very fortunate in a couple instances.” Thanks to “a little bit of forward thinking in 2016,” when he began...
Malting barley growers balance challenges with profit potential in Va.
RINER, Va. — Dan Brann and Chuck King, co-owners of Brann & King Farms, planted 80 acres of malting barley on their, fields. Four years ago, the business partners diversified their booming pumpkin, forages and winter wheat operation by adding...
Export-quality soybean amount is ‘way behind’
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Chesapeake Grain Elevator, in a slow and soggy soybean year, has discounted spotted and waterlogged soybeans, sold much of its grains to Perdue and has “maybe” 100,000 export-quality bushels so far available for purchase,...
Guide urges communication between landowners, farmers
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The University of Maryland released a guide for farmers last month that encourages better communication between landowners and producers to boost conservation practices on leased acreage statewide. Farmers on leased land...
Ramseys pondering transition between generations
Mid-Atlantic Grower WILMINGTON, Del. (Nov. 14, 2017) — Like a lot of farm kids, Carl Ramsey got started at an early age. His father Stewart recalls toting Carl in his car seat on the tractor while making hay. Before he was a teenager, Carl was operating equipment and...
Wentworth blossoming with floral arrangements
Mid-Atlantic Grower HOLLYWOOD, Md. (Nov. 14, 2017) — Two acres turned out to be the right size for Priscilla Wentworth to get her first year underway at Anchored Roots Farm, LLC in St. Mary’s County. She said the first year has been an important learning experience...
Organics offering risk, reward for beginning farmer
Mid-Atlantic Grower QUEENSTOWN, Md. (Nov. 14, 2017) — Scaling up in a grain operation has challenges. In an organic grain business, there’s an added hurdle of the transition period. Matt Nielsen of Tidewater Organics, LLC said organics is the niche he needed to get...
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