By John Moody
Published May 21, 2018
It is that time of year again, at least in my parts... For certain vegetable crops - sweet potatoes, certain greens and the like - deer damage can be catastrophic. A pack of deer can graze down a tenth of an acre of sweet potatoes in just a night or two (Don’t ask me how I know…)... We put in rows of sweet potatoes whose sole purpose was to act as a sacrifice patch for any deer that made it over the fencing... Any sweet potatoes that do make it will then become food for our pigs, who will be rotated through the patch in the fall...
By Darren Chan
Published Oct 15, 2019
Beauveria Bassiana fungus is a fungus that grows naturally in soils around the world. Acting as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; It widely used as a sprayed biological insecticide to control a great many pests such as bed bugs, termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and different beetles. Once Beauveria Bassiana infects the host insects, the fungus grows fast inside of the insect’s body. Feeding on the nutrients present in the host’s body and producing toxins continuously... It is currently used in the production of wheat, corn, peanuts, soybeans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, green Chinese onions, garlic, leeks, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, watermelons, cucumbers, etc...
Categories: Corn, Organic Row Crops, Peanuts
By John Moody
Published Jun 12, 2018
For much of the country, it has been a wild spring. For some, it has been a no spring. In my area we had an unseasonably long, late winter. Snow fell in the 3rd week of April... For instance, a fair bit of our bed space that was set aside for field lettuces, carrots, and similar crops is instead going into sweet potatoes, melons, or other warm season options...
By John Moody
Published May 9, 2018
Profit... For instance, let’s compare potatoes and sweet potatoes... But sweet potatoes require post harvest curing, a process that requires a specialized space or facility. This task creates added labor and other expenses that standard potatoes don’t. If your sweet potatoes only command a small premium over potatoes, they may end up being less profitable because of the added labor and other expenses involved with getting them to market...
By Dillan Roy
Updated Jul 27, 2022
The global agricultural micronutrients market is anticipated to reach a valuation of US$ 4. 9 Bn in 2021, and expand at a steady CAGR of 3. 6% over the forecast period of 2021 to 2031. Diets with low nutrients can be blamed for an increase in occurrence of micronutrient deficiency across populations... Farmers and sellers of nutritious and bio-fortified crops such as wheat, maize, potato, and sweet potatoes are being encouraged by manufacturers of agricultural micronutrients to strengthen their sales footprint...
Categories: Agribusiness
By Darren Chan
Updated Jun 17, 2021
1-MCP is a product widely used in apples around the world to improve eating quality and storability. Ripening of the fruit is initiated by ethylene, and in some cases this is also true. To a certain extent, the ripening process's speed is regulated by its concentration in the fruit. Fruits generally soften, and apples soften more rapidly when the ethylene content is high, but ethylene is also volatile in the fruit needed to stimulate the formation of flavor-producing substances... Vegetables: tomatoes, lettuce, celery, kale, potatoes, carrots, daylily, onions, toon, beans, broad beans, peas, broccoli, asparagus, coriander, cucumber, onions, leeks, garlic sprouts, (green, red) peppers, North Korea Thistle, cowpea, sweet corn, enoki mushroom, etc...
Categories: Agribusiness, Crop Protection, Sustainable Agriculture
By John Moody
Published Apr 3, 2018
Few of my family and friends would have ever expected me to become a farmer. I was that city kid, happy to play video games, hide from the sun, and grow my collection of Lego's and other toys far more than any interest in growing things like food. Life takes you surprising places, though, and 20 years later I found myself on 30+ acres of land, farming my family of seven and enjoying a country life that I never expected to find... Like the syrup we hope to sell, it is a sweet situation... Early potatoes will give way to peppers, tomatoes, or cucumbers...
By John Moody
Published May 29, 2018
How do you decide what to grow? Well, as I have explored in a few articles, there are many pieces of that puzzle to consider. You have to figure out what will be profitable... Two varieties of potatoes, grown side by side in the field, but completely different yields at harvest... ? During this stage, you should also be asking questions like - Would particular tools, techniques or infrastructure make this process easier and more profitable? If I scale up this crop, what infrastructure or issues may it create or changes will it require? For instance, a farmer friend decided to dramatically increase their sweet potato production. The growing side was fantastically well… but this success created a problem come harvest - the space that was normally set aside for other purposes was now needed for sweet potato curing...
Published Mar 23
The original blog post can be found at The Herdbook Ag MediaDid you know that March 21 is THE day to celebrate everything agriculture? It’s a day for our community to step into the limelight and remind the world how it contributes to the daily lives of everyone in this country, and, increasingly, folks beyond our borders. Americans are a privileged group when it comes to the agriculture realm. In fact, you could say we’ve won the jackpot with access to a food supply that is abundant, affordable and the world’s safest... include wheat, sugar beets, potatoes, chicken meat, tomatoes, cattle meat and pig meat... Washington, produces more apples, blueberries, pears, sweet cherries, spearmint oil, and hops than any other state...
Categories: Ag Policy
Sweet Grass Dairy in Ohio, all photos provided by Jacob Coleman
By John Moody
Published Jul 4, 2018
There is a stretch of interstate that runs crooked across the center of the US Midwest, connecting the rust belt region of northeast Ohio to the lands just beyond the Appalachia in central Kentucky. I-71. It is a road I know well, having traversed it as many as a dozen times or more per year doing my master’s work that took me from northeast Ohio to central KY for school... One is Sweet Grass Dairy, just a stones throws off the interstate... Our next few articles will explore Sweetgrass Dairy and the young family - Jacob and Elizabeth Coleman and their five kids - that are trying to keep the dairy dream alive...
Business Title: NC SweetPotato Commission
Job Title: Other Ag Professional, Commmunications Specialist
Interests:
Marketing
Job Title: Farmer, Rancher
Interests:
Beef, Swine, Dairy, Crop Protection, Ag Commentary, News, Marketing, Operating a Farm, Repair, Purchasing, Tools, Hunting, Wheat
Business Title: NC SweetPotato Commission
Job Title: Other Ag Professional, Exec Dir Commodity Assoc
Interests:
Vegetables, Ag Policy, Marketing, Agribusiness, Organic Row Crops, Precision Agriculture, Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Wheat, Rice, Canola, Sorghum, Beef, Dairy, Poultry, Swine, Cover Crops, Irrigation, Timber, Tobacco, Industrial Hemp
Interests: Corn, Cotton, Soybeans, Wheat, Sorghum, Cover Crops, Ag Policy, Precision Agriculture, Irrigation, Marketing
By John Moody
Published May 21, 2018
It is that time of year again, at least in my parts... For certain vegetable crops - sweet potatoes, certain greens and the like - deer damage can be catastrophic. A pack of deer can graze down a tenth of an acre of sweet potatoes in just a night or two (Don’t ask me how I know…)... We put in rows of sweet potatoes whose sole purpose was to act as a sacrifice patch for any deer that made it over the fencing... Any sweet potatoes that do make it will then become food for our pigs, who will be rotated through the patch in the fall...
By Darren Chan
Published Oct 15, 2019
Beauveria Bassiana fungus is a fungus that grows naturally in soils around the world. Acting as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; It widely used as a sprayed biological insecticide to control a great many pests such as bed bugs, termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and different beetles. Once Beauveria Bassiana infects the host insects, the fungus grows fast inside of the insect’s body. Feeding on the nutrients present in the host’s body and producing toxins continuously... It is currently used in the production of wheat, corn, peanuts, soybeans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, green Chinese onions, garlic, leeks, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, watermelons, cucumbers, etc...
Categories: Corn, Organic Row Crops, Peanuts
By John Moody
Published Jun 12, 2018
For much of the country, it has been a wild spring. For some, it has been a no spring. In my area we had an unseasonably long, late winter. Snow fell in the 3rd week of April... For instance, a fair bit of our bed space that was set aside for field lettuces, carrots, and similar crops is instead going into sweet potatoes, melons, or other warm season options...
By John Moody
Published May 9, 2018
Profit... For instance, let’s compare potatoes and sweet potatoes... But sweet potatoes require post harvest curing, a process that requires a specialized space or facility. This task creates added labor and other expenses that standard potatoes don’t. If your sweet potatoes only command a small premium over potatoes, they may end up being less profitable because of the added labor and other expenses involved with getting them to market...
By Dillan Roy
Updated Jul 27, 2022
The global agricultural micronutrients market is anticipated to reach a valuation of US$ 4. 9 Bn in 2021, and expand at a steady CAGR of 3. 6% over the forecast period of 2021 to 2031. Diets with low nutrients can be blamed for an increase in occurrence of micronutrient deficiency across populations... Farmers and sellers of nutritious and bio-fortified crops such as wheat, maize, potato, and sweet potatoes are being encouraged by manufacturers of agricultural micronutrients to strengthen their sales footprint...
Categories: Agribusiness
By Darren Chan
Updated Jun 17, 2021
1-MCP is a product widely used in apples around the world to improve eating quality and storability. Ripening of the fruit is initiated by ethylene, and in some cases this is also true. To a certain extent, the ripening process's speed is regulated by its concentration in the fruit. Fruits generally soften, and apples soften more rapidly when the ethylene content is high, but ethylene is also volatile in the fruit needed to stimulate the formation of flavor-producing substances... Vegetables: tomatoes, lettuce, celery, kale, potatoes, carrots, daylily, onions, toon, beans, broad beans, peas, broccoli, asparagus, coriander, cucumber, onions, leeks, garlic sprouts, (green, red) peppers, North Korea Thistle, cowpea, sweet corn, enoki mushroom, etc...
Categories: Agribusiness, Crop Protection, Sustainable Agriculture
By John Moody
Published Apr 3, 2018
Few of my family and friends would have ever expected me to become a farmer. I was that city kid, happy to play video games, hide from the sun, and grow my collection of Lego's and other toys far more than any interest in growing things like food. Life takes you surprising places, though, and 20 years later I found myself on 30+ acres of land, farming my family of seven and enjoying a country life that I never expected to find... Like the syrup we hope to sell, it is a sweet situation... Early potatoes will give way to peppers, tomatoes, or cucumbers...
By John Moody
Published May 29, 2018
How do you decide what to grow? Well, as I have explored in a few articles, there are many pieces of that puzzle to consider. You have to figure out what will be profitable... Two varieties of potatoes, grown side by side in the field, but completely different yields at harvest... ? During this stage, you should also be asking questions like - Would particular tools, techniques or infrastructure make this process easier and more profitable? If I scale up this crop, what infrastructure or issues may it create or changes will it require? For instance, a farmer friend decided to dramatically increase their sweet potato production. The growing side was fantastically well… but this success created a problem come harvest - the space that was normally set aside for other purposes was now needed for sweet potato curing...
Published Mar 23
The original blog post can be found at The Herdbook Ag MediaDid you know that March 21 is THE day to celebrate everything agriculture? It’s a day for our community to step into the limelight and remind the world how it contributes to the daily lives of everyone in this country, and, increasingly, folks beyond our borders. Americans are a privileged group when it comes to the agriculture realm. In fact, you could say we’ve won the jackpot with access to a food supply that is abundant, affordable and the world’s safest... include wheat, sugar beets, potatoes, chicken meat, tomatoes, cattle meat and pig meat... Washington, produces more apples, blueberries, pears, sweet cherries, spearmint oil, and hops than any other state...
Categories: Ag Policy
Sweet Grass Dairy in Ohio, all photos provided by Jacob Coleman
By John Moody
Published Jul 4, 2018
There is a stretch of interstate that runs crooked across the center of the US Midwest, connecting the rust belt region of northeast Ohio to the lands just beyond the Appalachia in central Kentucky. I-71. It is a road I know well, having traversed it as many as a dozen times or more per year doing my master’s work that took me from northeast Ohio to central KY for school... One is Sweet Grass Dairy, just a stones throws off the interstate... Our next few articles will explore Sweetgrass Dairy and the young family - Jacob and Elizabeth Coleman and their five kids - that are trying to keep the dairy dream alive...
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