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Ag department honors farm families
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. — Agriculture Secretary George Greig recognized five farm families who have been working their farms for more than a century Aug. 16, during Penn State’s Ag Progress Days, the state’s largest outdoor agricultural event. Counties Greig presented families from Beaver, Centre, Schuylkill, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties with century farm awards. Since the
Number of hunters increasing in USA slowly
In the distant past, hunters could be blamed for discouraging new hunters or at least failing to encourage participation, reasoning that more people in the field meant more competition and less personal opportunity. The same can be said for tradesmen who did little for years to encourage newcomers to the trades, fearing that more workers
Growing up
Do you remember when you were a little child and people would ask you the question, “What are you going to be when you grow up?” I recall being asked that question many times. Some of the professions of interest to me at that time were farmer, carpenter, mechanic, plumber, business man and many more.
Penn State professor part of project evaluating wine quality in eastern U.S.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Robert Crassweller, professor of horticulture in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, is part of a $3.8 million, multiuniversity research project to evaluate the wine quality of grapes, with an eye toward improving grape and wine sustainability and economic vitality in the eastern U.S Crassweller will help to evaluate the horticultural
Love-struck turkeys throw caution to the wind
Spring turkey season is nothing short of a hoot. A hoot that contains within it’s owl-like sound, a haunting, shadowy-like mix of gravel on one end and trumpet on the other, as well as the asking of a question. Indeed a fake owl hoot, one done in rhythm and done in the very first light
GIPSA rule changes could devastate seedstock producers in cattle industry
Cattlemen plan to fight back against proposed GIPSA rule changes at annual roundup.
Planning for organic: Ohio State, OEFFA partner to teach beginning growers
WOOSTER, Ohio — Growers who wish to market their crops or produce as “certified organic” must first complete a detailed systems plan, and have it approved by their certifying agency. On Dec. 3, about 50 people from across Ohio and beyond gathered at Ohio State University’s Arden Shisler Center for Organics 201, a workshop introducing
Six quick homemade holidy gift ideas
Why not give gifts that are homemade? A gift from the kitchen is twice blessed.
Farm bill amendment changes base acre provision for 2008 crop year
Ten or fewer acres? Sign up until Nov. 26 in direct counter-cyclical payment program.
Farm expenditures hit record high
WASHINGTON — U.S. farm production expenditures totaled $260 billion in 2007, up 9.3 percent from the revised 2006 total of $238 billion.
