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Nature’s Art Magnified
This January’s unseasonably warm weather left our snow shovel resting by the back door. It’s great, because unless I’m pulling a sled back up the hill below the farmhouse at Dad’s, I don’t much like tramping through the white stuff, scraping off my vehicles, or driving on slick roads.
Trumbull County Fair
CORTLAND, Ohio – Visions of stacking a freezer full of fresh meat filled their heads. It may have not been so much the meat they were thinking about: It’s likely buyers at the Trumbull County Fair were trying to imagine icy cold blasts from the freezer to stop their sweating during the sale July 15.
Gunning for the rural vote in November
Show me the contents of a person’s wallet and I’ll outline their life. My skinny wallet, for example, holds just two credit cards (likes convenience, hates consumer debt), a grocery store discount card (cheapskate), a driver’s license, voter’s registration card and fishing license (name, address, age, dull life) as well as a blood donor card (O Positive).
Farmers market chickens have higher levels of bacteria, says study
Whole chickens purchased from farmers markets throughout Pennsylvania contained significantly higher levels of bacteria that can cause foodborne illness compared to raw, whole chickens from grocery stores in the region, according to a small scale study by researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
Community garden becomes a reality
WOODSFIELD, Ohio — Through the diligence of several hard-working individuals in a very short period of time, the Monroe County Community garden has become a reality. Committee In late December, members of the Woodsfield Garden Club teamed up with the Monroe County Master Gardeners and in early 2010 the Monroe County Community Garden Committee was
Dairymen form PAC to be heard in D.C.
Rocked by a year of historically low milk prices, dairy farmers are taking their case to Washington to seek changes in how the price of milk is set. Dairy farmers from Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio have started a federal lobbying effort to call for changes in the milk pricing system and demand that the USDA enact provisions in the farm bill that will help farmers.
Free testing of private water supplies available in some Pa. counties
PITTSBURGH — The Colcom Foundation’s grant program Marcellus Environmental Fund has secured $150,000 for the Headwaters Quality Drinking Water Project to provide low income families in Jefferson, Elk, Potter, Cameron, Clinton, Centre and McKean counties with funding to secure chain of custody water sample analyses of their private water supplies prior to Marcellus Shale gas well drilling activities.
Just getting through: Gross-outs and revelations from an artificial insemination school
DAMASCUS, Ohio – It’s below 40 degrees in here, cold enough to see your breath and lose track of your fingertips.
Answering the hard questions now will help when disaster occurs
As farmers, we know the cows must be milked rain or shine, hot or cold, sick or not, but what do you do when the unexpected happens? Who milks the cows, makes sure the feeding and other work gets done when the person responsible for those chores is unexpectedly unable to fulfill their duties? There
Beef prices will drop for both farmer and consumer as Canadian cattle arrive
URBANA, Ill. – The party is over for U.S. beef producers.
With the Canadian border opened to live beef cattle, more cattle in the feedlot pipelines, and more heifers saved back to increase the size of the brood cow herd, “some would say the party is over for high cattle prices,” said Purdue University Extension marketing specialist Chris Hurt said.
