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Beef shortage means hold on to the cows
The quantity of beef available to U.S. consumers has declined a startling amount in recent years, and that trend is going to continue. Unfortunately, even higher retail beef prices can be expected for consumers.
Research on stature, health during agricultural transitions shows trends
ATLANTA — When populations around the globe started turning to agriculture around 10,000 years ago, regardless of their locations and type of crops, a similar trend occurred: The height and health of the people declined.
School’s out for summer: Employing minors can be complex
With the school year coming to a close in the next few weeks, many students will be looking for employment on farms to do a variety of tasks ranging from baling hay to milking cows to operating machinery.
Soccer mom confessions
I am the mother I warned myself about. In all those blissful early years of having children (babies, really), I had big plans to do very little.
Stay safe around livestock this spring
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Spring on the farm brings the arrival of baby animals in greening pastures, but potentially dangerous situations can arise when working around farm livestock this time of year.
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau carries concerns of agriculture to U.S. capital
WASHINGTON – Nearly 200 farmers from across Pennsylvania were in Washington March 3 and 4 meeting with their congressional representatives during Pennsylvania Farm Bureau’s 2005 National Legislative Conference.
Little known virus carried by bean leaf beetles causing new soybean losses
The bean pod mottle virus, seen throughout the Midwest last year, is a little-known virus spread by a familiar insect – the bean leaf beetle. It causes reduction in seed quality and yield.
FARM SCIENCE REVIEW: Buckeye Power Co-op gets $250 million loan
LONDON, Ohio – On his swing through Ohio Sept. 20, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns awarded an electric utility loan of nearly $240 million to Buckeye Power Cooperative.
Cattle numbers are holding steady
WASHINGTON – The number of beef cattle and calves entering the nation’s feedyards increased in October, but overall supplies of fed cattle are likely to remain tight into next year, according to
Under water: Late season floods damage crops; livestock drowned
SALEM, Ohio – Scioto County’s Jim Rapp calls himself a true river rat farmer.
But in his 59 years, he’d never seen pooled water on the home farm in September.
