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Pa. Farm Show ‘Today’s Agriculture’ exhibit exposes what really happens on farms today
The words under the Today’s Agriculture logo are sage: “Opening the Doors: Farming, Knowledge, Trust.” Being transparent about what goes on in our barns goes a long way to earning consumers’ trust.
The wisdom of hard work on the farm: ‘It won’t kill you’
It is the universal German Lutheran explanation for all the unnecessary sweat generated by farm folks since the Garden of Eden, “Besides, it doesn’t kill us.”
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Oct. 8, 2009
ASHLAND, Ohio — On Sept. 15, the Mapleton FFA soil judging team swept the meet, having nine of the top 10 competitors from the Mapleton FFA chapter, in rural judging. The following students placed top 10 in the soil judging for rural: Roger Tobias, Shelby Rohr, Jared Wynn, Andrew Hutman, Kate Briggs, Deandra Lowman, Hillary
Time has come to reduce hog herds
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Hog numbers will continue to run higher than anticipated, dragging out the potential for losses until next spring, said a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist.
Nutrition from birth to first lambing influences productivity of the ewe
Development of replacement ewe lambs over the summer prior to breeding has an impact on the overall productivity of the flock.
W.Va. farmers market a way for local farmers to grow together
The Highlands Farmers Market, a new market in West Virginia, focuses on flexibility for busy farmers and making sure farmers are the ones leading the market.
Don’t bury just the CO2 pipelines; bury their very idea
Alan Guebert ponders what gives the better environmental and financial return — billions spent on a CO2 pipeline or investing in solar and wind generators?
Bigger tractors for now, but robots could reverse trend
Ag engineering expert says the era of bigger tractors could eventually give way to much smaller, robotic machines.
Motherhood, apple pie and ethanol
Rare is the person, topic or issue that finds the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in unison. In the last two months, however, the voices of the world’s most-respected liberal and most-respected conservative editorial pages sang perfect harmony on one topic, their intense dislike of ethanol, the corn-based
Waste not: Dairyman tackles problem head on
Smart farm management decisions earned Knox County dairyman Tom Freer one of five Environmental Stewardship Awards presented statewide by the Ohio Livestock Council.
