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FDA will revise produce safety rules, hold additional comment period
New food safety rules to be revised and announced by early summer.
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of May 27, 2010
HANOVERTON, Ohio — The Hicks and Hayseeds 4-H Club met recently at the home of their advisers, Ken and Judy Brown. Members were reminded of upcoming clinics, taggings and registration due dates for the fair. They continued building a picnic table that will be raffled off to benefit the Hanoverton Fire Department and also worked
West Virginia student turns fairground purchase into a big chicken business
CHARLESTON, W. Va. — The USDA’s 2007 Census of Agriculture showed that the average age of the American farmer had crossed 57 years for the first time. That’s up from 50.3 in 1978 — and farmers 65 and older are the fastest growing group of farm operators. It seems all the kids these days are
Richfield Heritage Preserve holding birding hikes
The Friends of Richfield Heritage Preserve will offer two migratory bird hikes on May 4, 7:30-9 a.m. and 9:30-10:30 a.m., at Richfield Heritage Preserve.
Monsanto investing $20 million in genetics
Monsanto Company reinforced its commitment to further improve the genetic potential of seeds by announcing a $20 million investment in integrated technology centers as part of its global breeding program.
Black Swamp Conservancy protects Seneca County farm
PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Black Swamp Conservancy, along with the U.S. and Ohio Departments of Agriculture, has entered into a permanent farmland preservation agreement with a Seneca County landowner.
Read it Again: Week of March 15, 2001
Each week Farm and Dary takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Worse crop conditions, better prices
It’s a seller’s market: Don’t look back at $7 corn and $14 beans and wonder why you didn’t sell those numbers going into harvest!
Watch out for weeds that injure
LAWRENCE, Kan. — If you’re tempted to get outside and prepare your flowerbeds for the onset of summer, make certain you’re prepared. You may run into weeds that can irritate or blister your skin. Well-known garden plants such as carrots, parsnip and dill have cousins with some nasty characteristics. Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), common hogweed
Six will be inducted into W.Va. ag hall of fame
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Six men have been selected for enshrinement into the West Virginia Agriculture and Forestry Hall of Fame. They will be recognized at a banquet June 21. Those selected include: Brookley Rush Butcher Brookley Rush Butcher of Summersville, West Virginia. Butcher is a soil conservation district supervisor and leader of the conservation supervisors
