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Dairy farm nuisance bird prevention and control
Ohio State University educator Dwight Roseler provides tips for dealing with nuisance birds on the farm.
Finding the right jobs for livestock guardian dogs
Despite Tarma Shena’s preference for sheep, sometimes, her livestock guardian dogs like goats instead.
Columbiana Co. Ag Hall of Fame to enshrine Crosser, Bowman
The Columbiana County Agriculture Hall of Fame will induct Zada Crosser and Harry W. Bowman during ceremonies on opening day of the Columbiana County Fair.
Manure expo: Don’t miss a minute of the action
The 2015 North American Manure Expo is taking place July 14 and 15 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Unsteady prices as harvest winds down
I am remembering the traditional harvest schedule of my youth, when we hoped to have the crop in by Thanksgiving Day.
A day in the life of an incubating hen turkey
At about 7:15 Monday morning I settled into a comfy spot about 20 yards from the edge of the woods. My intent was to experience the migration, by sight and sound, from a single spot. It was chilly, about 42 degrees, but I was dressed for it — polar fleece jacket and wool cap. With
Pointers for grazing in wet weather
With the 2011 grazing season underway I imagine everyone is moving livestock to new paddocks on a regular basis by now. It has been extremely wet in our area so it’s been a challenge to rotate livestock to areas where grass is growing without pugging soils and damaging the sod base in those paddocks. Suggestions
Here comes the neighborhood
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt wonders if a tree falls in the forest with nobody around, can a Starbucks, two video stores and a housing development be built before anyone hears it?
Harvesting hope – Kenyan farmers celebrate first banana harvest using new growing technology
NAIROBI, Kenya – African village farmers are harvesting hope along with their banana crop. Marking a two-year culmination of a partnership between Africa Harvest – a Kenyan-based agricultural nonprofit organization – and DuPont, this year’s harvest in Chura, Nairobi, is the first in the community to include bananas grown via tissue culture propagation.
The more things change, the more things change
Alan Guebert discusses two reports and how they demonstrate a need to adopt climate change policies in the agricultural industry.
