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1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · John Yost

   Rethinking fall small grain planting dates in northeast Ohio - Farm and Dairy (opens the original)

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   In northeast Ohio, spring rains delayed small grain forage harvest and corn planting. Most producers adjusted to plant earlier-maturing corn hybrids, and while there will still be a delay in corn harvest, it doesn’t appear that it will be too extreme. As we are still a few weeks from harvest, the weather can still squeeze us for time as we prepare to plant our next forage crop, and you may have questions about when the optimal time is to plant small grains. We should not be surprised that there

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2. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · John Yost

   Get back to the basics when restoring weed-infested hay fields - Farm and Dairy (opens the original)

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   Over the last few weeks, the pasture and hay questions I have been asked have all had a common theme: heavily weed-infested hay fields. In each case, there were different events that led to the problem, but they were dealing with the same issue. I am sure that at some point every producer has had that field that has gotten away from them, and they are not really sure what to do to get it back to being productive. If you are in a similar situation, how can you work through the problem to develop

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