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USDA takes next step toward COOL
SALEM, Ohio — Like it or not, mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) is coming your way. The USDA issued its interim final rule for the program July 29, which leaves time for public comment toward the program’s final operation, but allows COOL to go into effect, as planned, Sept. 30. Covered. COOL, which has
Enjoying two- and four-legged friends
“A funny thing happened on the way to …” and it should continue “the Forum”, but in this case, it was the recycling center. Happily, the center is only about a block from me, and I recycle everything possible, so I make the trip about once a week. (And I am always appalled at the
Don’t complain with your mouth full
The last time the hefty price of wheat was a dinner conversation topic the then-secretary of agriculture, Earl Butz, hit the road to deflect consumer anger from farmers. His only weapon was a loaf of stale bread. “Farmers don’t set the price of food,” Old Fencerow to Fencerow would proclaim as he unwrapped the bread
Still no action on farm bill
WASHINGTON — At a farm bill forum last September, when OSU ag economist Carl Zulauf said, “This is going to be an extremely difficult bill to conference,” he probably didn’t realize just how prophetic he would be. Ohio Farm Bureau county presidents hitting Capitol Hill March 12-14 asked everyone they met about progress on the
Katrina: ‘I’ve never seen one like this’
The wind died down around 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29. In that lull, Mississippi dairyman Bucky Jones scrambled out to the barn to milk his 80 Holsteins.
Too many cooks in farm bill kitchen
If urban sprawl consumes two acres of America’s finite farmland every minute, should Congress, through the 2007 farm bill, address farmland protection? If one out of three Americans is either overweight or obese, should the $57 billion the U.
Matter doesn’t always matter
A month ago, Fred Kirschenmann, distinguished fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, preached to the preachers of the Northern Plains Conference of the United Church of Christ in Bismarck.
The life of a constant contest winner
A mother’s mind is one of the most ingenius in the world, and columnist Judith Sutherland shares a particularly crafty mother’s story.
Farm Bureau salutes next generation
Ohio Farm Bureau announces award finalists.
Dairy cow, calves beaten to death in Lake Co.
Three calves and a cow are dead, and two other cows are injured.
