Almost half the Earth is still wilderness

A team of more than 200 scientists spent two years compiling information about the Earth’s most pristine and untouched regions. Their findings have been compiled in a new book, Wilderness: Earth’s Last Wild Places.

Ohio Wheat Performance test results available

Test results includes yield data of 43 wheat varieties from five locations along with test weights, seeds per pound, lodging, plant height and heading date.

Home alone

No matter how much you love each other, I think that too much togetherness after 20 years together may be more than is strictly needed. I say this with love, but I need to miss a person.

Raleigh Co. man might have found world’s smallest egg

CHARLESTON, W. Va. — Not a month after a near-world record chicken egg was discovered in a Roan County henhouse, the West Virginia Department of Agriculture says a Raleigh County man may have found the smallest egg on record.

Draft horse plowing is a family affair

BOTKINS, Ohio – Fourteen-year-old Luke Shroyer of Botkins, Ohio, surprised a few people and pleased a lot more when he won the Ohio State Draft Horse Plowing Match at the Agricultural Science Review Sept.

It took a winch, but he’s okay

A 26-year-old retired Appaloosa being kept by Mary Jo Modzeldwski of Burgettstown, Pa., ventured onto a footbridge where it had never gone before and fell through. It took a tow truck to get him out.

USDA: This crop is still a big one

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio – Ohio is on track to set a new state corn yield record. As of Nov. 1, Ohio’s average corn yield is forecast at 161 bushels per acre.

Government asks for stay of beef checkoff injunction

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a request for a stay of an injunction that would otherwise stop collection of $1-per-head beef checkoff assessments effective July 15.

We lost some great ones in century’s first decade

Eleven years ago, the dawn of the new year also heralded a new century. The country freaked out a little about the whole Y2K thing (none of the computers will know what to do with the new date and whole systems will shut down), but it didn’t happen. And technically, the 21st century didn’t begin until Jan. 1, 2001.

Now, we’re wrapping up the first decade in this new century, we thought it was only fitting to look back at great contributors to the agricultural community we mourned this first decade.