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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
Marcellus shale summit set in N.Y.
OWEGO, N.Y. — Cornell Cooperative Extension, in collaboration with a number of local and statewide partners, will host a Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Summit at the Owego Treadway Inn, in Owego, N.Y., Nov. 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Local government officials, landowner coalition representatives, citizens seeking more information, industry representatives, environmental advocates, and
Local Roots producer meeting Aug. 10
WOOSTER, Ohio — The Wooster Local Foods Cooperative, Inc., doing business as Local Roots Market and Cafe, will hold a producers meeting at 7 p.m. Aug. 10 in the market building at 140 S. Walnut St., Wooster. Growers, farmers, and other food producers who are interested in selling locally-produced food at this new year-round farmers
Pigs come to rescue of widow in Uganda
RICHMOND, Va. — A pair of pigs in Uganda changed the life of Milly, a widow, forever. In 2003, Milly’s husband died, leaving her unemployed with eight children to raise. As a housewife, her role had been to bear children and take care of their home. She was 35 and seemingly had no where to
FSA Andy for Nov. 20, 2008
Hello again, friends! Hang onto your hats! Sign-up for the 2009 Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program is still under construction. Forms have not been completed for the 2009 crop year and regulations have not been published. An announcement will be made and you will be notified when we are ready to proceed. Something to consider while
Setting your 2007 farm budget by the numbers
Lower fuel and nitrogen prices in the last half of 2006 have signaled trends that should hold throughout 2007.
‘Why I can’t come to work today’
As anyone who ever had employees knows, being an employer is not the piece of cake that some management gurus would like us to believe.
Raw milk tests positive for salmonella
HARRISBURG, Pa., – Consumers who purchased raw milk from Stump Acres Dairy of New Salem, Pa.
Largest corn crop in 63 years
WASHINGTON – U.S. farmers planted 92.9 million acres of corn in 2007, exceeding last year’s planted area by 19 percent and surpassing the March projection by 3 percent, according to the Acreage report from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
