And now for the Farm Report ...

Spring has come early in the Buckeye state.  And so has the harvest.

Farmers harvesting food crops early after warm spring

by  Mary Vanac, Columbus Dispatch -- June 21, 2012

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This year’s early spring and unusually warm weather in late May are bringing harvests of sweet corn and other crops earlier than usual [in Ohio].

“Consumers (are) getting caught off guard,” said Brad Bergefurd, extension educator of horticulture, agriculture and natural resources at Ohio State University.

Because of that, seasons for produce such as strawberries and asparagus were over before they usually began, he said. The overall season for corn, however, is not expected to be shorter than normal.
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“It’s a little strange,” said Tom Witten, the lead farmer in the family. “There seems to be a warming trend globally. We just picked 50 bushels of bell peppers. That beats our previous record by two weeks.”
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This early harbinger of "good tidings" is visiting the land of the razorbacks too ...

Ark. row crops moving toward early harvest

by Associated Press, posted on businessweek.com --  June 20, 2012

(AP) -- Arkansas row crop farmers are watching their plants mature at an unprecedented pace due to early planting that was possible thanks to lengthy, warm spring weather.
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"If everything keeps going like it has so far this year, we could be harvesting two to three weeks earlier," said Jeremy Ross, extension soybean agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. [...]

"The warm weather March through June has really pushed the corn crop along," said Jason Kelley, extension agronomist for the division. "We had the warmest March on record, which aided in early planting and allowed early planted corn to emerge and grow quickly."
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