This video discusses ways to improve your production and accounting records, calculate your organic grain cost of production, and account for the ‘tricky two’ fixed costs that often get overlooked. Eric dives into Ohio’s organic grain Excel enterprise budgets in this video in order to help your farm evaluate costs for 2025 and beyond.
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Integrating Compost for Fertility and Soil Health (OGRAIN)
This video features Patrick sharing their journey starting a compost operation on their farm. He shares details about their system and what it took to get started as well as their challenges and successes along the way. He also shares how this has changed the way they address soil fertility on their farm.
Our Global Health Crisis: A Case for Regenerative Organic Agriculture (OGRAIN)
Learn how organic farming’s emphasis on soil health helps generate positive impacts on farm and food system resilience as well as plant, livestock, human and ecosystem health.
Going Against the Grain – “Outside the Box” Farm Business Strategies (OGRAIN)
This keynote video discusses profitability planing, marketing and value-adding ventures, as well as farm diversification as it relates to diversity, climate change, agricultural policy, farm viability and conservation.
Improving Weed Management in Organic Grains (OGRAIN)
Effective organic weed management requires well balanced integration of cropping system strategies and direct control practices. These include strategies like crop rotation and control practices like blind cultivation, row crop cultivation, and rescue interventions. This video will discuss how to choose and fine-tune time tested cropping systems and direct control practices as well as some… Continue reading Improving Weed Management in Organic Grains (OGRAIN)
Panel: Farmer Perspectives about Organic Transition (OGRAIN)
Are you interested in getting certified organic, or just curious? In this second video of a two-part webinar series, you’ll hear from three diversified vegetable farmers about their perspectives on organic certification.
Panel: Flame Weeding (OGRAIN)
Learn the components of well-designed flame weeding equipment and the research behind creating a successful weed management strategy utilizing the flame weeder in corn and soybeans. Hear first-hand experiences and tips from a panel of experienced organic farmers.
Panel: Post Harvest Handling of Culinary Grains (OGRAIN)
From field to plate, there are many important steps and considerations to take into account when growing food-grade grains for culinary markets. Learn from two operations that have established cleaning and other post-harvest handling infrastructure for these crops from where they started, decisions they made, to next steps they are considering for the future.
Exploring Plant-Pathogen Interactions for Corn Management in Organic Systems (OGRAIN)
This video explores the potential of integrated management strategies through the understanding of plant-pathogen interactions.
