Farmers are blending tradition with innovation, using cover crops, no-till, and diversified practices to cut input costs, fight weeds, and protect soil while there is a growing push for regenerative agricultural practices. But these practices also offer farmers another way to reshape profitability while increasing conservation.
Prices for popular cover crops such as cereal rye and nitrogen-fixing brassicas are a little cheaper for producers this fall. A range of programs offers farmers incentives to try the practice and rewards farmers who have already been planting cover crops.
This week we anticipate interest rate decisions from the Fed while temperatures get higher again for most of the country. North Dakota farmers continue to evaluate recent frost damage as crops everywhere reach harvestable moisture levels.
USDA released its September Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports on Friday.
Attention Customers
The most precious addition to the Ondrejicka family arrived this week! Congratulations Nick & Danielle and welcome Joseph Michael! ♦ OEL Customer Open House, Centralia, Tue Sep 16 Please RSVP now - watch your mailbox for your invite! ♦ OEL - Agronomy is ready... OEL is wrapping up the 2025 crop year and ready to handle your input business for 2026! Talk to the staff at Centralia regarding your seed, fertilizer, and crop protection needs. Brian: (519) 274-4798 Britt: (519) 719-8122 Centralia Office: (519) 228-6687
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OEL is still looking for temporary harvest help in our probe room - flexible to fit YOUR schedule! No experience needed, we provide the training.
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