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Beef producers dig deeper into DNA
Breeders say DNA testing can now extract information from a bull only a few weeks old that in the past would have taken 10 calves sire to determine.
Choose the best seed for your garden
After the hectic holiday has passed, gardeners will begin sorting through their big piles of seed catalogs to choose spring seed.
House blasts beef checkoff proposal
A month’s worth of online public comments on USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack’s proposed implementation of a second beef checkoff program closed Dec. 10, three days before House and Senate passage of 2015 funding legislation. But that didn’t stop legislators from weighing in on the matter.
The best stories always include a dog
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.”
Cattlemen accepting Best of the Buckeye nominations
Ohio seedstock breeders are encouraged to take advantage of an enhanced marketing opportunity through the Best of the Buckeye program beginning in the 2014 show season.
The best and worst of summer, through plants
The best of summer comes from the garden or a roadside produce stand; the worst lurks in our backyards. My favorite summer garden foods are watermelon, cantaloupe and sweet corn. Explorers introduced melons to North America in the 16th century. Watermelons originated in Africa; cantaloupes came from Persia. A perfect watermelon is ripe, sweet, and
Heifers: Keep the best and sell the rest
We all know that a heifer is a female bovine animal that has not yet had a calf, well at least those of us that work in the dairy industry know that. But then we use the term of “first lactation heifer,” which is not a “heifer “ but a young cow in her first
A ‘climate’ of ecological farmers meet in Granville
OEFFA members and supporters pack Granville schools for 34th conference
Treating diabetes early is best strategy
Intensive early treatment of type 2 diabetes slows down progression of the disease by preserving the body’s insulin-producing capacity, a UT Southwestern study has shown.
DNA: An arriving tool for beef cattle
Producers are using DNA to give consumers what they want in beef.
