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Trading stamps were more than currency for some
Anyone remember Green Stamps? Or Plaid stamps, Top Value stamps, or several other less popular ones? Trade stamps, in various denominations and amounts depending upon the amount of money spent on merchandise, were given to customers by certain merchants. Incentive Although the merchants had to pay the trading company for the stamps, they felt the
Corn, soybean exports may decline
URBANA, Ill. — Early USDA forecasts for the 2008-09 corn and soybean marketing year project substantial declines in U.S. exports from the record levels reached in the 2007-08 marketing year, said a University of Illinois marketing specialist. “The sharpest decline is projected for corn,” said Darrel Good. “With U.S. corn and soybean stocks expected to
Farming by numbers
“You’ve gotta know where you’ve been to know where you’re going,” says Ohio grain farmer Hal Tate.
For farmers, gifting what they grow can provide charitable opportunity
Lorain County farmer among the first in his area to donate grain for charitable cause.
Retail staple food prices increased in fourth quarter of 2010
WASHINGTON — Retail food prices at the supermarket increased slightly during the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 food items that can be used to prepare one or more meals was $46.97, up 80 cents or about 2
Ohio Farm Bureau is off base
Teaming up with powerful people is not how agriculture should conduct its business.
Local, internationally-known artist donates original art to Salem alumni fund-raiser
Local artist’s work raises funds for Salem alumni scholarship fund.
Pa. bull sale breaks records
PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE, Pa. — Eighty-one bulls, consigned by breeders in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, broke two sale records at the 36th Pennsylvania Performance Tested Bull Sale March 27 at the Pennsylvania Livestock Evaluation Center in Pennsylvania Furnace. The bulls sold for a total of $169,950 — a record-high average of $2,099 per bull. Sale A
What’s the prognosis on equine limb fractures?
URBANA, Ill. — Up until the 2006 Preakness Stakes, it was nearly set in stone that if a horse breaks a leg, its future is not bright. But then came Barbaro, the thoroughbred predicted to win the Preakness that year. After shattering its right hind limb in several places and undergoing five hours of surgery,
All-American pulling at Mercer Raceway Park May 24
MERCER, Pa. — Mercer Raceway Park will present the All-American “Spring Nationals” world championship pulling event May 24 at 6:30 p.m. The rain date for the pull is May 25 at 5 p.m. Classes The pull will be sanctioned through USA-EAST and is to be produced by Full Pull Productions of Jamestown, Pa. Four USA-EAST
