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A developing issue: Water management, infrastructure needed for Marcellus gas production
Editor’s Note: The Farm and Dairy published a three-part series on Marcellus Shale earlier this fall. Follow these links for more information: Can a safe water drinking supply sustained?, Consulting an attorney and Sifting through the good and bad. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Billions of dollars already have been invested by natural gas companies in
Feds: No tolls on I-80 in Pa.
Interstate 80 is one of the main trucking thoroughfares in the state and is used by many agricultural businesses.
Keeping the taste sizzling in steak (researchers say it’s all about the marbling)
For beef customers, it’s all about taste and tenderness. Can science help cattlemen raise cattle that taste better?
Wind energy makes environmental and economic sense for two producers
AMES, Iowa — In today’s tough economic times, farmers want to make every dollar count. Using a renewable resource such as wind energy can be both environmentally and financially responsible. Two pork producers Two southeast Iowa pork producers are making wind energy work for them. Andy McCall of West Chester has a 7,200-head wean to
New grape could help wine industry
URBANA, Ill. — An herbicide that is effective at killing broadleaf weeds in corn, but also annihilated most of the grapes in Illinois and other Midwestern states, may finally have a worthy contender. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new grape called Improved Chancellor which is resistant to the popular herbicide 2,
Heifer International seeks to lessen poverty through livestock programs
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Amid calls for increased food aid due to the crisis in food prices, hunger experts at Heifer International are issuing appeals for long-term solutions that increase available food supplies through agricultural development. Dr. Jim DeVries, Heifer’s vice president of programs, said agricultural development projects can help sustenance-level farmers increase their production
Better beans: Six new types of soybean
Six new soybean varieties, available for seed production this spring, may offer improved field characteristics and increased nutritional benefits over current market varieties.
Be like pushmi-pullyu, not ostrich
In this week’s commentary, Editor Susan Crowell comments on New Jersey state legislators who are considering a bill that would prohibit veal calves from being tethered in individual stalls, among other veal production management practices.
Be careful what you wish for… High grain prices impact more than corn farmer’s wallet
The close of 2010 saw grain farmers across the nation still reveling in near-record prices from the fall harvest. And as we enter a new year and a new decade, indications show the best is still to come. But experienced farmers know, it won’t just be grain prices that go up. What will it mean for seed and fertilizer? Or how about crop insurance, and fuel? And what about food costs and livestock feed?
Looking into next year’s trough
Corn and soybean farmers should begin to focus on what a return to “average” could bring after three years of government payments and wild market swings.
