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Corn growers can gain insight into conventional, drought-tolerant hybrids
ADA, Ohio — Corn growers thinking about planting decisions for the 2013 season and debating whether to use drought-tolerant hybrids or conventional hybrids may want to consider how drought-resistant hybrids respond to typical growing conditions as well as in drought-stressed conditions, an Ohio State University Extension expert said. While new drought-tolerant corn hybrids are marketed
The GIPSA watchdog better bite
Who is J. Dudley Butler and why are meatpackers and their allies saying nasty things about the courtly, 61-year-old from Yazoo County, Miss.? The short answer is that Butler is the new administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA). That makes him the watchdog over Big Meat and
The Great Carbon Boondoggle, part 2
Alan Guebert offers insight as to how Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposed carbon pipeline could yield massive profits while greenwashing even more oil money.
Buyers give more than $500,000
CANTON, Ohio – The only thing better than winning a champion banner at the county fair is winning four.
UPDATED: Pigeon King goes bankrupt
Originally posted 6/20/2008 at 11:20 a.m. EST: SALEM, Ohio — What once looked like a high-flying and profitable opportunity — a business sold under the promise to save family farms — has crashed to the ground. Arlan Galbraith filed for bankruptcy on his Pigeon King International pigeon breeding business June 17. The voice mail box
Grazing conference inspires hope
DALTON, Ohio — It didn’t matter that the winter roads were terrible, or that the outlook for milk prices is even worse — the atmosphere at the North Central Ohio Dairy Grazing Conference, Jan. 29-30, was positive, even revival-like.
Borden Dairy Co. seeks bankruptcy protection
Borden Dairy Co. recently filed for bankruptcy protection, making it the second major U.S. dairy to do so in as many months.
Deermice link plants to predators
When I checked my nest boxes this week, about half were still occupied — by mice. When I gently probed the mass of dried leaves with a stick, it was only a moment before I had a mouse running down my leg. Deermice and white-footed mice commonly use nest boxes intended for cavity-nesting birds, and
States report record maple syrup flows
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s 2008 maple syrup production is ranked in fifth place nationally compared to fourth place last year. Ohio maple syrup production was 118,000 gallons in 2008, an increase in production of 43,000 gallons from 2007. The number of taps increased from 370,000 taps in 2007, to 395,000 taps in 2008. The 2008 yield
Table it
Kymberly Seabolt struggles to understand the trend of not having or using dining rooms these days. Where do people sit, hold family meetings or do homework?
