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Put farm taxes on your to-do list
It’s not to late to make changes for tax purposes. This year farmers have more alternatives to consider with respect to cost recovery or depreciation on assets that they placed in service during 2008.
Platforms tell real presidential story
Before rural America loses an eye to campaign mudballs, election year slime and rose-colored lies, let’s go where farm and ranch voters rarely venture.
Kent planetarium to explore Star of Bethlehem
The nighttime sky as seen from the Holy Land in the year 6 B.C. will be recreated when the Kent State University Planetarium holds its annual Star of Bethlehem show.
Clarion Co. Fair sale totals are up
CLARION, Pa. – The Clarion County Fair 4-H livestock auction held July 30 totaled at $58,242.50, up substantially from last year’s total of $48,871.
Voinovich targets EPA, energy policy
Sen. George Voinovich said what the Ohio Farm Bureau leaders wanted to hear when he met with them in Washington. He left them pleased if not satisfied.
Friendly family feuds dominated Stark Co. show ring
Sibling rivalry elevated to new heights at this year’s Stark County Fair junior market livestock competitions with families claiming champsionship status in hogs, steers, chickens, and cheese.
Explosion fuels new law for old engines
Less than a year after a steam explosion in Medina, Ohio, killed five and injured almost 50, legislation is about to be passed requiring inspection and licensing of steam boilers.
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.
Eye-raising bids: Youth raise more than $7 million through projects
SALEM, Ohio – Exhibitor checks have been cut, county fair livestock committees’ work is slowing and some livestock projects are well under way for next year.
Stark County Fair livestock sale tops $415,000
CANTON, Ohio – When last year’s Stark County junior fair market livestock sales increased $30,000 to total $384,000, organizers wondered how they could top that.
