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Keeping safety in mind this planting season

Farmers across the Midwest are off to an early start this planting season. Spring is typically the busiest time of the year for farmers, and when rushing to take advantage of ideal planting conditions, it can be easy to neglect simple steps for staying safe and healthy while in the field.

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  • May 10, 2012
    Article

    Still plenty of time to plant soybeans

    This has been an odd year for planting soybeans with some being planted as early as March. But optimal planting time is still during May, and growers have plenty of time to get their crop in the ground....More
  • Apr. 30, 2012
    blog

    End of corn planting on a northwest Ohio farm

    We finished planting corn on April 24. Everything was working so smoothly that I wish I would have had more corn acres to plant. I had a Ram Tradesman pickup truck to test on our farm for a week this spring. It had the hemi motor in it. We used it to run some errands and pick up some parts. The truck would do zero to 60 mph in seven seconds. It was so dusty at times when we were running errands that my wife had trouble seeing the road. There were a lot of huge, strange rigs running up and down the roads....More
  • Apr. 23, 2012
    blog

    Very early planting in Illinois

    Most years I plan to begin planing YC between April 15 and 25 and be finished by May 10. This year I will have all of our corn planted by April 25, plus 1/4 of our 2012 crop YSB crop has been planted for a week. Western Illinois soils are dry & warm.  Some of the warmth is coming from tractor engine heat; every direction you look there are at  least two farmers doing fieldwork without worry of getting stuck in the mud.  Good eyesight is not needed to spot tractors working in fields this year....More
  • Apr. 16, 2012
    blog

    Getting the planter in the field

    This week there was a lot of dust flying in NW Ohio. I would guess that 2% of the corn has been planted.  My family started planting on Friday. We have a 20-year-old planter with dry fertilizer boxes so we needed to get the planter in the field and make sure that everything moves like it is supposed to. I am hoping for rain this week so that I can run an errand to central Indiana to pick up a few hog slats for my confinement building. My largest tractor is also 20 years old and is in the shop now.  Hopefully everything can be fixed on it in one day....More
  • Apr. 13, 2012
    Article

    Keeping safety in mind this planting season

    Farmers across the Midwest are off to an early start this planting season. Spring is typically the busiest time of the year for farmers, and when rushing to take advantage of ideal planting conditions, it can be easy to neglect simple steps for staying safe and healthy while in the field....More
  • Apr. 10, 2012
    Article

    Compilation of recent planter and planting coverage, just in time

    Just in time for spring planting, Farm Industry News brings you a compilation of the most up-to-date and relevant planting and planter equipment coverage we have published in recent months. Read up on what you need to know before you head out into the field to plant.  ...More
  • Apr. 4, 2012
    Article

    8 tips for preparing a planter for fieldwork

    Proper planter maintenance is critical for correctly placing expensive seed into the ground when planting begins. Farmers need to take care of the maintenance now before the planting window opens. An expert in planter maintenance, service manager Phil Jennings with Kinze Manufacturing offers eight tips for proper planter maintenance:...More
  • Mar. 27, 2012
    Article

    Farmers consider modifying planting decisions

    Although decisions on what to plant essentially took place last summer or fall when farmers ordered seed and other inputs, now is the time many consider tweaking those plans, says an Ohio State University Extension agricultural economist. Barry Ward, production business management leader for OSU Extension, said both corn and soybean prices have been up and down since harvest....More
  • Mar. 20, 2012
    Article

    Does it make sense to plant so early?

    Reports of fields planted by mid-March in central and southern Illinois are coming in.   According to professor of crop sciences Emerson Nafziger, “Although there have been some fields planted this early in the past, this is the earliest we have ever had good planting conditions across so much of the state, and it’s certain that we have never before had this many corn acres planted so early.”  ...More
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