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Hazard A Guess: Week of May 15, 2008
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
How to reduce grass tetany in grazing cattle
As the number of daylight hours increase, temperatures warm and pastures grow, farm managers should take steps to prevent hypomagnesemia or “grass tetany.”
Buy local, eat local: Food-borne illnesses are driving consumers to find food closer to home
SALEM, Ohio — In the past few weeks, Joy Weaver’s gotten pretty good at reading minds. Inside Catalpa Grove Farm Market, near Columbiana, Ohio, Weaver and other employees know just what that customer lingering near the tomatoes is wondering. Are these safe? Where are they from? “It’s almost like you’ve got to post a sign
American Lamb Summit wrestles with industry’s future
The American sheep industry is at a crossroads. Those who grow lamb, in particular, have to adapt to changing times or be left behind. It’s a conundrum that should resonate with anyone in agriculture. People want to know where food comes from and how it came to be. That’s not going anywhere. We should care anyway, because we are stewards of one of the most important things on the planet: our food.
Read it Again: Week of March 1, 2001
Each week Farm and Dary takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Girls learn math is invaluable in most career fields
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Recently, a group of middle school girls learned about the math involved in becoming an agricultural entrepreneur during a trip to the University of Kentucky Horticulture Research Farm. Campus event Their trip was a part of a UK Math in Agriculture day. Math in Agriculture was just one day of the three-day
Grandpa and dad knew balance while farming was vital
Life seems to bounce from one hard lesson to the next. For example, no sooner than someone tells you “It’s not about the money,” you learn that, yes, it’s always about the money. Then, after years of working hard to acquire that money, you discover that, no, you can’t take it with you. Farming and
U.S. fertilizer prices are beginning to fall at the wholesale level
WASHINGTON — After increasing for six consecutive years, U.S. fertilizer prices are finally beginning to fall at the wholesale level, according to a report by the American Farm Bureau Federation. “Up until very recently, fertilizer prices were astronomical at both the wholesale and retail level,” said American Farm Bureau Federation senior economist Terry Francl. “Fertilizer
How to plant a pizza garden
Is pizza a staple dinner entree at your house? Get your kids involved in making homemade pizza by planting a pizza garden!
Stalled immigration reform causes major Pa. grower to end production
CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s largest producer of fresh market tomatoes will no longer grow labor intensive food, citing the failure of the U.S. Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform with a viable guest worker program for agriculture. Keith Eckel, the owner of Fred W. Eckel Sons Farms in Lackawanna County, said the risk is
