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Some tips on soil temperature
WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. – When planting season rolls around, one of the most valuable tools a farmer needs fits right in his shirt pocket.
Pheasant hunting numbers down in South Dakota
There is good news and bad news coming out of South Dakota, the nation’s honey hole for pheasant hunting.
Conservation tillage practices could be stronger in Lake Erie drainage area
There’s plenty of stirring going on in Lake Erie drainage area.
Hog producers may see modest profits
URBANA, Ill. — Hog producers may see modest profits in 2009, depending upon costs of production and other factors, said a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist. “The industry has had six consecutive quarters of losses from the final quarter of 2007 through the first quarter of 2009,” said Chris Hurt. “The return to profits sometime
A few tips on avoiding squirrel-induced insanity
A few days ago, while listening to Mike Tirico and Scott Van Pelt on ESPN radio, Van Pelt broke out laughing in near hysteria. Tirico asked him to explain himself. It turned out Van Pelt was broadcasting from his home, and he was watching a bird feeder as he worked. The distraction was a squirrel
Higher fuel prices pushing farm machinery operation costs sky-high
SALEM, Ohio – The skyrocketing cost of fuel is hitting nearly everyone in the pocketbook. Among business owners acutely feeling the effects are farmers, who depend on petroleum products – gasoline and diesel fuel – to power vehicles and machines that are used in everything from planting and harvesting crops to feeding animals and spreading fertilizer.
The changing face of Ohio agriculture discussed at Farm Science Review
A lot has changed in the last 20 years. Ohio has more broilers, hogs and female farm operators, but less farmland, fewer dairy farms and older farmers.
Penn State’s training was life-saving for farmer
A Pennsylvania farmer trapped in a grain bin in May was rescued by first responders who knew how to save him, thanks to training from Penn State Extension.
We need to start thinking about water
We hold little control over such monumental matters like water, whether it is the lack of a natural resource or the deluge and devastation of far too much of it.
