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Don’t lead your garden down the wrong path
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The recent tomato contamination outbreak has many people thinking about growing their own garden-fresh fruits and vegetables. But a food-safety specialist in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences says it’s not where the produce is grown, but how it’s grown, so amateur cultivators should know a few important tips about home-garden
What was making news in America in 1939
October 1939: Poland was desperately fighting the German Wehrmacht in the west and the Red Army in the east, vestiges of the Great Depression lingered in this country, FDR was well into his 2nd term as President and your author was in his second month of 1st grade at Court School, a one-roomed frame building in western Pennsylvania.
Another satisfied customer
There are two file folders in the lower, right drawer of my desk. One is labeled “Mail,” the other “Another Satisfied Customer.” The former is filled with complimentary or question-asking reader mail. The latter holds mail that’s more acidic than affectionate, more hammering than humorous. Like an email from “Gil” in response to an October
Growth is uncomfortable, but necessary
The beauty of continued growth is learning to make improvements and then build on them.
Colvin fund offers scholarship money for students in beef industry
The Certified Angus Beef ® brand this year will split the Louis M. “Mick” Colvin Scholarship of $15,000 among five undergraduate scholarships, in the amounts of $5,000, $4,000, $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000.
Cowboy checkoff fight grows: Ag groups blast NCBA effort
Of all the political hot rocks farm groups are juggling now in Washington, D.C. — cap-and-trade, cuts in crop insurance, shrinking farm program budgets — I’ll bet you a cup of coffee you cannot name the issue that recently united ag heavyweights as diverse as the American Farm Bureau Federation and National Farmers Union. That
See you in court: Agricultural society files suit to settle fairgrounds dispute
AKRON – The Summit County Agricultural Society has gone to court seeking a temporary restraining order preventing an eviction and the seizure of personal property on the fairgrounds. The society is also seeking a declaratory judgment, asking the court to make right what the ag society defines as the county’s illegal activities. The agricultural society
Roundup of gardening news for March 28, 2019
Catch up on local gardening news from Geauga, Mahoning and Wayne counties in Ohio and Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
Roundup of FFA news for Dec. 30, 2021
Catch up on local FFA news from Waterford FFA and West Holmes FFA.
CFAP details released, applications to open May 26
Guidelines are out for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program that will give direct payments to farmers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
