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Farm animal sanctuary opens in Portage County
Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary houses and rehabilitates animals that have been rescued by the Portage County Animal Protective League. Right now it is home to two horses, three ducks, three potbellied pigs, seven dogs, 10 rabbits, and 11 chickens, and is expecting 40 sheep and a 700-pound pig.
Checkoffs: More and more of the same
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there now are federal commodity checkoffs for beef, blueberries, Christmas trees, cotton, dairy products, eggs, fluid milk, Hass avocados, “Honey Packers and Importers,” lamb, mango, mushrooms, paper and paper-based packaging, peanuts, popcorn, pork, potatoes, processed raspberries, softwood lumber, sorghum, soybeans and watermelons.
April’s extreme weather continues in May
The Mississippi River reached nearly 48 feet in Memphis, Tenn., May 10, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. It was the highest water level for Memphis since 1937. And so April’s chaotic, extreme weather continues. Here’s what happened, U.S. weatherwise, in April 2011, just in case you’re blocking it from your memory:
Sugarcreek auction fined $162,800 for equine violations
Leroy Baker Jr., owner and operator of Sugarcreek Livestock Auction, has been fined more than $162,000 by the USDA for violating equine transport laws. USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) filed a complaint against Baker in March 2008, alleging he violated the Commercial Transportation of Equines for Slaughter Act.
Brag About Your Bag: Joshua Moorman
For the past month and a half we’ve been showing our appreciation for the hunt with our Brag About Your Bag photo gallery. One of the photos we’ve received is of 11-year-old Joshua Moorman, who shot his first deer, an 8-point basket buck, with a crossbow on Oct. 17.
Farm dream boils down to one thing: Family
All of his adult life, 32-year-old Randy has been working toward the goal of owning a farm. He and his wife bought 32 acres and built their house, hoping to later sell that land and buy his old family farm back with whatever profit they could gain.
Grain markets: Are we swimming into new crop?
There has been a lot of grain market volatility to confuse things. One day, we were up 4 cents and the next down 4 cents. The optimist says we are going higher, the pessimist says we are going lower, and the realist says the market did nothing for those two days.
When it comes to the 2020 weather, devil is in the details
This year has been a relief for many following a rainy 2019, with widespread prevented planting in the Midwest. But though the growing season was close to average overall for precipitation and temperature, Ohio State University atmospheric scientist Aaron Wilson said, the details are important, too. And those details suggest that things aren’t quite as normal as they seem.
Slaughter cattle prices fall to mid-$80s
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Brisk summer beef sales at grocers’ meat counters helped push July-September average slaughter cattle prices 2 percent over year-earlier levels, but year-to-year price gains have likely gone by the wayside, said Kansas State University agricultural economist James Mintert.
Trumbull County Fair
CORTLAND, Ohio – Visions of stacking a freezer full of fresh meat filled their heads. It may have not been so much the meat they were thinking about: It’s likely buyers at the Trumbull County Fair were trying to imagine icy cold blasts from the freezer to stop their sweating during the sale July 15.
