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USDA, Penn State University invest in training new farmers

Monday, December 21, 2009

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — With half of all current farmers in the U.S. likely to retire in the next decade, federal and state agriculture officials are looking for ways to encourage and assist the new generation of farmers that will produce the nation’s food and fiber in the future. Two groups of researchers and extension

The gifter that keeps on giving very badly

Thursday, December 17, 2009

There is a long-accepted seasonal stereotype that says that women love to give amazing gifts and men are incapable of doing so. Chuckles abound each year as commercials, sitcoms and general conversation all imply males would happily — and haplessly — give vacuum cleaners and dish soap as Christmas gifts if our nation’s jewelers didn’t

Garrettsville horse farm knows no gender barriers

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

D.C. Campbell continues to follow her passion: Building a horse training and rehabilitation business for Thoroughbreds.

National Farm Machinery Show visitors, exhibitors ‘cautiously optimistic’

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Farmers were looking, perhaps dreaming a little, but many were also spending. Farm equipment and allied industry exhibitors were smiling, perhaps holding their breath a little, but many were also exhaling. The National Farm Machinery Show, Feb. 11-14, in Louisville, Ky., was a solid litmus test of agriculture’s state of mind. Would

Organic food co-op raid sparks court case against health department, ODA

Friday, December 19, 2008

SALEM, Ohio — Legal action has been taken on behalf of a Lorain County farm family that says a raid on their property earlier this month violated their constitutional rights. The Buckeye Institute‘s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit Dec. 17 in Lorain County Common Pleas Court

Waste not want not in ‘hard times’

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Whatever happened to the March lamb? Did the ferocious March lion have lamb for lunch before slinking back to his lair, growling and lashing his tail as he went? Do you remember my warning after January’s benign presence that somewhere down the road Mother Nature’s payback would take place, and I was right on the

Dairy Excel: How’s your herd’s somatic cell count?

Thursday, June 21, 2001

Ernie Oelker agricultural extension agent in Columbiana County. writes about somatic cell count and what it costs the dairy producer.

Ohio farmers receive awards for conservation stewardship

Thursday, April 21, 2005

COLUMBUS – Seven farmers who have implemented conservation and resource stewardship management practices received this year’s Environmental Stewardship Awards.

Indiana bat research in Pa. draws national attention

Thursday, May 31, 2001

Pennsylvania Game Commission researchers have uncovered new information about a longstanding endangered species of bat.

Black Ink: Use that carcass data to gethomeruns and base hits instead of strikeouts

Thursday, September 18, 2003

Don’t waste all that information; take a closer look.