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2009 Lawrence County Fair Livestock Auction
This year’s auction at the Lawrence County Fair had 17 lots resold, with proceeds benefiting the Lawrence County 4-H and the Wilmington, Mohawk and Laurel FFA chapters. Check out bid prices, buyers and photos from the auction, as well as some other shots from around the Lawrence County Fairgrounds.
USDA: Purchase of nonfat dry milk helps both farmers and low-income families
WASHINGTON — The USDA is transferring approximately 200 million pounds of nonfat dry milk from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service for use in domestic feeding programs. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said the goal is to help support both low-income families struggling to put nutritious food on their
Auction Roundup — Real estate, firearms and farm equipment bring high bids at auctions
– Don R. Wallick Auctions Inc. of Strasburg, Ohio, held a real estate auction of the Harriett B. Snoga estate in Uhrichsville, Ohio, March 14. The 221 acres were sold as an entirety for $475,000. – Auctioneer Nick Cummings of Schrader Real Estate and Auction Co. Inc. of Columbia City, Ind., held a land auction
Livestock producers should embrace premise ID
Why is Ohio so afraid of a premise identification program?
Ohio Farm Bureau names finalists
COLUMBUS — Ohio Farm Bureau Federation released the names of the finalists of its 2008 Outstanding Young Farmer contest. Finalists are Wayne and Sara Greier of Canfield, Robert and Autumn Morrison of Bloomingdale, Steve and Sonya Quillin of Stone Creek and Brandon and Julia Weber of Jackson. The award recognizes individuals or couples 35 or
The Buzz of Bees
The honey month of September provides a chance to celebrate the honeybee. Seventeen states have adopted the honeybee as their official state insect. Why does it hold top honors as the most popular among the 50 states? Keep in mind that one out of every three bites of food we consume has been made possible
A Skunk by Any Other Name … Would Still Smell
My supervisor and coworker, Carol, spoke of an overwhelming skunk stink that pervaded her neighborhood the other night. It lingered for hours around her home. I came up short for a column and decided to update one from several years back when a picture of a man nose to nose with a skunk caught my
Pigeon King gets wings clipped in Maryland
SALEM, Ohio — Another state has clipped the wings of Pigeon King International. Maryland’s Securities Commissioner filed an order requesting Pigeon King International and its owner, Arlan Galbraith, show cause for doing business there. The order, filed May 19, said the state had “determined that grounds exist to allege that Pigeon King violated the registration,
Cereal leaf beetle infesting wheat
WOOSTER, Ohio — The cereal leaf beetle, a wheat pest of bygone days, is becoming more numerous again in Ohio, and some cereal grain growers are seeing feeding damage to their crop this season. Ron Hammond, an Ohio State University entomologist with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, said localized wheat fields in parts
Sustainable ag team kicks off summer tour
COLUMBUS — Ohio State University’s Sustainable Agriculture Team kicks off its summer tour series June 19 with a look at modified relay intercropping — a good-yielding, earth-friendly system in which soybeans are planted into standing wheat. The free program runs from 7 to 9 p.m. at Unger Farm, 970 Nevada Road in Bucyrus, Ohio. Six
