Blogging Newbie in Pickaway County

May 8th, 2008

Welcome to my first and hopefully not last attempt at blogging. I hope that you will find this a way to catch up on happenings in the agricultural community of Pickaway and surrounding Counties.At this site you will initially find reports about current crop conditions, weather and items of interest for row crop producers. As time goes on, it is hoped that it will become a robust site with comments and reports from others around south-central Ohio.

And now as Paul Harvey would say "The rest of the story"

Corn planting as a whole is generally done in greater Pickaway and surrounding counties. Two weeks of ideal planting weather has allowed growers to get the crop in the ground even though it was a week-10 days late getting started. Corn that has emerged looks generally good. The rains received Thursday night and Friday of this week has helped along a few late emergers.

Soybean planting got started early in the week and will benefit from topsoil moisture. Some ground was getting hard. The dust clouds rolling Tuesday and Wednesday were evident of a need for rain wherever I drove.