A roundup of FFA news for the week of Nov. 25, 2010

PLYMOUTH, Ohio — Plymouth FFA members have the opportunity to farm a 30-acre field located next to the high school. Soybeans were the choice crop that were planted in the FFA’s field this year. Crops are rotated each year to assist with nutrient management, pest control, and soil fertility. At harvest, the 26-acre plot yielded

Mercer County 4-H Roundup Livestock Sale

Find out the results from the 2009 Mercer County 4-H Roundup Sale of Champions, and check out sights from around the Mercer County 4-H park.

Sound of silence speaks volumes

Columnist Alan Guebert comments on where American farmers now sit on free trade.

Rest easy, Bob Zoellick’s on the job

Columnist Alan Guebert says like Eric Clapton, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick is a god

Terrorist act could hurt U.S. agriculture

Shifts in national priorities could leave the farm bill and commodity support at the bottom of the list.

Interest rates help push farmland values; buyers ‘locking into land’

DENVER – U.S. farmland values continue rising at rapid rates, according to the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, with some locations experiencing sales well above peak market prices.

Portage County Farm Bureau: Entire Kibler family shares award

Bill and Donna Kibler shared the Distinguished Service Award with their family at the Portage County Farm Bureau’s annual dinner meeting.

Walter E. Watson

HANOVERTON, Ohio — Walter E. Watson, 95, died June 1, 2014, at the Salem Regional Medical Center.

He was born Nov. 14, 1918, in Wellsville, Ohio, to the late Walter and Florence May (Thompson) Watson.

He married Doris Eleanor McKarns on June 15, 1946. She preceded him in death on Dec. 4, 2004.

Mr. Watson lived in the Salineville area before moving to Hanoverton in 1954. He retired from Loudon Ford in 1983 after 36 years.