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Series of classes guides budding farmers
MERCER, Pa. — Whether your vision includes making goat cheese, selling cut flowers, or growing rare tomato varieties, the Exploring the Small Farm Dream course will give you the tools to start making that dream come true. Participants will discuss current opportunities in small-scale agriculture, explore objectives, assess personal and financial resources, conduct preliminary market
Cooperatives Working Together accepts latest round of herd retirements
ARLINGTON, W. Va. — Cooperatives Working Together has tentatively accepted 194 bids in its latest herd retirement, representing 34,442 cows and 653,893,409 million pounds of milk. Farmers had submitted a total of 209 herd retirement bids to CWT. CWT’s three herd retirements last year were the primary reason why U.S. cow numbers dropped steeply in
Mixing hog manure and sawdust into compost could be management option
A University of Illinois extension study found that mixing 50 gallons of slurry with a cubic yard of sawdust created a compost with about 50 percent moisture and no odor that was ready to apply as fertilizer in five months.
Construction to start on ethanol plant
MAUMEE, Ohio – The Andersons Inc. will immediately begin construction on the largest, dry-mill ethanol plant east of the Mississippi River in Clymers, Ind.
Horse plowing competition goes on in the rain
On April 28, I attended the Ohio Draft Horse Plowing Contest at Carriage Hill Farm in Huber Heights, Ohio. Carriage Hill Farm is a part of the Five Rivers Metro Park system of Montgomery County and is an 1880s working farm where crops and animals are raised using vintage machinery and methods. Farm employees and
The gifter that keeps on giving very badly
There is a long-accepted seasonal stereotype that says that women love to give amazing gifts and men are incapable of doing so. Chuckles abound each year as commercials, sitcoms and general conversation all imply males would happily — and haplessly — give vacuum cleaners and dish soap as Christmas gifts if our nation’s jewelers didn’t
Demands to verify source and age will mean changes for cow-calf producers
As the Japanese and other foreign markets reopen to U.S. beef, there is increasing demand for source- and age-verified cattle.
Ohio hosts national Brown Swiss convention
The National Brown Swiss Convention was held in Canton, Ohio, July 5-8. Ohio and Pennsylvania farmers were recognized as top producers.
A distinguished fellow gets shuffled
In the big, slow move this past summer from the big, painted house in town, my worn copy of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac went missing.
Trumbull Co. club to offer shooting sportsfest for youth
The Trumbull County 4-H Shooting Sports Pioneers Club will host a free NRA Youth Sportsfest Sept. 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
