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The deal with high mileage chicken
Just before the Labor Day weekend began, Aug. 30, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced China was welcome “to export processed, cooked chicken to the United States.” If USDA hoped this little nugget might get overlooked during summer’s last, languid holiday, that thought was deep-fried by noon when Politico, the
OSU President E. Gordon Gee to retire
OSU president to step down at end of June
Rural food deserts?
WOOSTER, Ohio — “Food deserts” are normally thought of as low-income, blighted urban neighborhoods with little access to fresh, reasonably priced fruits and vegetables. But rural areas, despite their wide-open spaces and fertile farmland, can be food deserts, too. An Ohio State University Extension community development specialist worked with two student interns to examine this
Saying farewell to one of the ‘family’
By JUDITH SUTHERLAND Farm and Dairy columnist In 1950, my dad graduated from high school and welcomed a young man who had just moved to this area. Both were setting sights toward crop farming and dairy farming. In the ensuing years, both would start young families while building successful, sustainable Holstein herds. Light-hearted While my
Vilsack’s buzzword at Farm Science Review: Innovation, innovation, innovation
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: Ag innovation gave us food security.
Like always, Ag Progress Days features something for everyone
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s Ag Progress Days will once again show the many faces of agriculture, bringing together people with a wide range of perspectives on the production of food, fuel and fiber. New attractions This year’s expo will feature several new or special attractions: The Renewable Energy Showcase, a series of presentations
Ohio strawberry growers can get to market earlier and longer. Lots longer
Thanks to a new production method called plasticulture, Ohio consumers now have access to locally grown strawberries as early as the first week of May and as late as October.
Conservation starts in your backyard
COSHOCTON, Ohio — Do you ever remember mowing your lawn in March? Due to the warm weather this year many of us did just that. I don’t remember starting this early and I have spent many hours of my life on a lawnmower. Before moving to Coshocton, I mowed several acres of yard that took
Dairy Excel: Embracing the reality of dairy farming economics has been difficult this year
We sometimes attempt to deny reality as a coping mechanism for an issue we simply don’t want to deal with if accepting the reality is too painful. This behavior sometimes exists relative to the economics of dairy farming.
Choppers show Farm Science Review visitors sometimes it’s about ‘new chrome’
There were three machines at this year’s Farm Science Review that definitely had people talking — and you can’t use them in the field: custom-built ‘American choppers.’
