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Getting better at grazing this fall
Learn how to extend your grazing during the winter months. You may not make the rotation last 150 days, but can you make it last longer — say, 90 days?
NRCS has up to $700 mil. for Conservation Stewardship Program
For the Conservation Stewardship Program, NRCS now enrolls eligible, high-ranking applications based on dollars rather than acres. Also, higher payment rates are now available for cover crops and crop rotations.
USDA food assistance programs to benefit nearly 10 million worldwide
WASHINGTON — The USDA recently announced that international food assistance in fiscal year 2012 will benefit more than 9.7 million people worldwide under USDA’s Food for Progress and McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition programs. Under the programs, USDA purchases U.S. commodities and donates them to government agencies and private-voluntary organizations in targeted
Climate change not likely to harm crops, expert explains
HONOLULU — Record yields for staple crops in the U.S. and globally in recent years seem to contradict fears that agriculture will be negatively affected by increasing climate temperatures, according to a senior fellow for the Heartland Institute.
Stark SWCD plans annual meeting and elections
MASSILLON, Ohio — The board of supervisors of the Stark Soil and Water Conservation District will hold its annual meeting and banquet Nov. 17 at the RG Drage Career Center in Massillon, Ohio.
Dankfest celebrates German heritage
Harmony Museum’s Dankfest Aug. 24-25 always concentrates on the unique history of the community founded in 1804 by German separatists and resettled in 1815 by Mennonites.
Nature chooses the riches it provides you
The truth is Northern Plains gardening is a gamble from start to finish. Eliza Blue weighs in on this season’s harvest.
OARDC’s Steve Slack inducted into USDA’s NIFA Hall of Fame
Steve Slack, director of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, has been inducted into the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hall of Fame
Even with technology and so much food, most are ‘food ignorant’
Even with technology, this next generation is borderline clueless of what it takes to produce food, and even more clueless at what it takes to feed 7+ billion people on a daily basis.
Counting your blessings among your problems
Eric Keller ponders the trials and tribulations of homesteading.
