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Farmers face backlash for comments in Washington Post
Alan Guebert reacts to the nearly 5,000 readers’ comments posted online in response to sentiments from farmers included in a Washington Post article.
What’s the matter with Kansas?
For over 100 years, some Kansans have either built or added to their journalism reputation by asking this simple question: What’s the matter with Kansas?
Ag needs less talk, more listening
If politics won’t fix growing public problems — crumbling roads, worsening schools, widening income gaps — people will find other ways, oftentimes violent, they believe will fix them.
Penn State going to fly-by planting
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Seeking to be a role model for farmers in the state and across the Northeast,
Corn growers beware: That biotech trait may limit your market, price
SALEM, Ohio – The Ohio and National Corn Growers Associations are giving farmers fair warning: If your seed corn has a rootworm trait, you had better know if it’s fully approved for global use.
Gavilon Grain cited in death of worker
MORRAL, Ohio — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Gavilon Grain LLC in Morral following the September 2010 death of a 20-year-old worker who was caught in a discharge auger while cleaning out a grain bin. At least 25 U.S. workers were killed in grain entrapments last year, and
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,
With caution and common sense, we can keep eating those green onions
The recent outbreak of hepatitis A in Pennsylvania has raised new concerns about the safety of this supply and distribution system.
The Marcellus shale: Q&A with Thomas Murphy, Penn State Extension
What can Ohio learn from Pennsylvania’s approach to the shale boom? Thomas Murphy, co-director of the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, has some suggestions.
Due to very wet spring, beware of hot hay causing barn fires
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — This year’s unusually wet spring and early summer has led many farmers to store hay that’s wetter than normal, increasing the danger of barn fires, according to an expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. “Often, farmers have reported they know the hay they are baling is wetter than they’d
