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Choosing hybrids? It pays to be picky
COLUMBUS – Corn yield potential has increased as much as 2.5 percent per year over the past half-century because of genetic improvements in hybrids.
Looking for farm bill balance
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers writing the 2007 farm bill have about $30 billion worth of requests per year for funding from the commodities portion of the bill.
The opossum: A misunderstood marsupial
Tami Gingrich highlights all the reasons the Virginia opossum is a unique and beneficial animal to have around.
Thanks to Netflix, I can’t get off the couch
’Tis the season to snuggle with your smartphone on the sofa.
Climate change not likely to harm crops, expert explains
HONOLULU — Record yields for staple crops in the U.S. and globally in recent years seem to contradict fears that agriculture will be negatively affected by increasing climate temperatures, according to a senior fellow for the Heartland Institute.
Producers endorse cut in checkoff
At today’s market prices, the reduction in the pork checkoff rate will result in reducing pork producers’ total checkoff assessments by $5 million to $6 million per year.
Farm Bill politics 2024 are leaning toward Project 2025
This year, like last year, is a Farm Bill year and this year, like last year, probably won’t deliver any Farm Bill.
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Oct. 15, 2009
MILLERSBURG, Ohio — On Sept. 27, freshman West Holmes FFA members Sarah Lynch, Elizabeth Overholt, Alexis Bird, Lee Schlegel, Brittany Sigler, Bob Taylor, Kristi Atherton, Katie Spillman, Wyatt Gardner, Haylee Mackey, Samantha Krejci, Crystal Yeater, Corbin Wright, Scott Colgin, Brittany Crawford, Josh Woodruff, Rae Ann Keck and Brittany Barnes attend FFA Greenhand camp at FFA
New fruit pest threatens Pa. growers
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Grapes, berries and tree fruit may be threatened if a new pest makes its way into Pennsylvania this year, Penn State researchers say. The Spotted Wing Drosophila is a small vinegar fly with the potential to damage many tree fruit crops such as cherries, plums, peaches, some apple varieties and Asian
The promise of spring is kept
If there is a whopping blizzard on the Thursday this article appears, it is all my fault, because this Thursday (March 22) I unplugged the heat tape in the barn.
