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Pollinators are needed to keep the world green
By SCOTT SHALAWAY Every year, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture designates a week in June as National Pollinator Week. The effort is intended to draw attention to the invaluable services provided by bees, beetles, butterflies, flies, birds and other pollinators. Plants reproduce when pollen (sperm) from male flower parts (anthers) reaches the pistil
Ohio prepares for summer gypsy moth management
Learn more about Gypsy moth caterpillars, their preferred host and proven management techniques to eliminate the pest.
8 food safety tips for shopping at farmers markets
Shopping at farmers markets, you can get good deals on fresh farm products. But you also need to consider these food safety tips to keep your family safe.
Pasture plant may have big benefits
Forage plant wards off ruminant gastrointestinal nematode.
Dailey yanks Buckeye Egg permits
The first thing Ohio Agriculture Director Fred L. Dailey did with the ODA’s Livestock Environmental Permitting Program was to revoke Buckeye Egg Farm’s operating permits.
Hillandale Farms founder donates $45.5M to Pitt for musculoskeletal research
Orland Bethel recently donated $18.5 million to the University of Pittsburgh for a biological specimen repository to enhance musculoskeletal research.
Tactics for coping with invasive plants
Have you ever given any thought to invasive plants and the damage they do to the environment? I know I had not until I attended a workshop held by a local soil and water conservation district. I had known that certain plants were not native to Ohio and had been planted for a variety of
Heirlooms and social media drive Melody Acres Hobby Farm
Christine Yankel inherited her green thumb from her mother, and cultivates it by growing and selling heirloom varieties of vegetables and other plants from her home, in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Ohio agriculture director Robert Boggs: At the grassroots, telling it like it is
SALEM, Ohio – Shortly after Robert Boggs of Ashtabula County took over as director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture earlier this year, he got an order from the governor.
Growing up with a sour cherry tree
When I was a little kid, our house had a sour cherry tree out beside the garage.
