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Give back to nature this holiday season
It’s that time of year when all is merry and bright and the fast pace of the world we live in slows down just enough to catch a few moments with family and friends.
USDA report shocks the grain market
After the June 30 USDA acreage and stocks reports, we are looking at the worst one-day trading in years, and the market is struggling to decide what low prices really are.
Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett declares Jan. 9 ‘Cooperative Extension Day’
Pennsylvania’s governor proclaimed Jan. 9 Cooperative Extension Day, in recognition of the 100 years since the formation of the land grant outreach program started by the Smith-Lever Act.
Part IV: Caring often meant family separation
“It sure beat starving,” Charlie would often say of the many ‘room and board’ deals he struck for himself and his brothers over the years of their hard-scrabble childhood.
W. Va. announces deadline to apply for farmland protection funding
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Anyone interested in being considered for funding under the fiscal year 2012 Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program should submit an application by Nov. 15.
Here comes the neighborhood
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt wonders if a tree falls in the forest with nobody around, can a Starbucks, two video stores and a housing development be built before anyone hears it?
Poll: Ohioans support indoor smoking ban
COLUMBUS – One year after the SmokeFreeOhio campaign kicked off, a poll shows 60 percent of Ohio registered voters support a statewide clean indoor air law.
Memories of war reunite rescuer, doctor
A chance meeting has brought together two men who met for the first time 18 years ago when one was evacuating the other from the Island of Granada.
Budget cuts concern conservationists
WASHINGTON – National Association of Conservation Districts President Bill Wilson recently expressed concern with the lack of funding for conservation programs in the Administration’s proposed fiscal year 2007 budget.
BSE confirmed in Canada
OTTAWA – Canadian officials confirmed Sunday, Jan. 2, that a 9-year-old dairy cow from Alberta, Canada, tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
