Ashland SWCD holds 64th meeting

The 64th annual meeting of the Ashland County Soil and Water Conservation District was held with numerous landowners present for the picnic-style lunch, election, presentation of awards and numerous educational displays for the children and adults. The “No One Left Inside” theme meeting was held on the grounds of the Ashland County West Holmes Career

They’ve been waiting 17 years for this

The last time cicadas from Brood XIV emerged, George Bush Sr. was leading the nation, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was on prime time, and a gallon of gasoline cost $1.15.

Since 1991, this brood has been feeding and maturing underground in southwestern Ohio, central and eastern Pennsylvania, western West Virginia and nearly all of Kentucky.

Riding with Sancho at Ohio Beef Expo

COLUMBUS — Children stood on their tiptoes to peer through the fence. Adults craned their necks to peek over the gate. Faces in the crowd changed as the minutes passed, but the size of the group packed around Sancho’s pen rarely dwindled. It seemed like an unnerving situation for the 2,200-pound Texas Longhorn. But he

A common sense cure for cold feet

Authorities and searchers might have been at a loss when they launched a nationwide hunt for “runaway bride” Jennifer Wilbanks recently, but the real experts – wedding planners – knew this was no kidnapping.

Christmas creeps in on little Pilgrim feet

To a child, that goofy pilgrim buckle hat is just an orange barrel slowing down the fast lane to the good holiday, says columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt.

Pennsylvania Beef Expo dates set

Demonstrations, exhibits and presentations will be featured March 28-30.

Meetings cover federal scrapie rules

A series of OSU sponsored meetings early in the year will clarify the USDA’s requirements for establishing sheep and goat identification systems as part of a government effort to track and eradicate scrapie.

Meeting for game breeders and hunting preserves

Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences will hold the Pennsylvania Game Breeders and Hunting Preserves annual meeting, Feb. 25-27.

Feeding distillers’ grains to beef cattle

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Increased ethanol processing capacity in the upper Midwest has led to greater supplies of dry milling co-products.

Ethanol project featured at beef school

Beef and dairy cattle producers can learn benefits from the potential new market.