Existing federal truck weight laws and regulations have unintended negative impact on farmers and ranchers.

ITHACA, N.Y. — Producing milk uses large quantities of land, energy and feed. But cows that receive a biotech product called rbST give more milk, easing natural resource pressure and reducing environmental impact, according to a Cornell study.
The carbon hoofprint is being reduced by a biotech product used on American farms for nearly 15 years […]

Well, it wasn’t exactly a vacation, but state Sen. Jason Wilson (right), D-30th, shared a recent issue of Farm and Dairy with Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland. Wilson, the ranking minority member of the Senate ag committee, reads Farm and Dairy to keep abreast of issues that pertain to the ag committee as well as his […]

Farm and Dairy enjoyed the view at the Heisey Glass Museum in Newark, Ohio, when we accompained David and Judy Ahart of Berlin Center, Ohio, during their trip.
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Analese and Gidget Marrison checked out this corn field July 4. It belongs to their great uncle — Robert Marrison of New Lyme Township in Ashtabula County, Ohio. This corn was waist high in spite of this year’s wet and crazy growing season.

Editor:
On a day when we celebrate the founding of our democracy, it is sad that Farm Bureau still is trying to prevent us from the peaceful enjoyment of our homes. While the EPA has not always lived up to their responsibility — if they had, I would not have 10 poultry buildings 500 feet west […]

If JBS Swift’s buyout of National Beef, Smithfield’s beef slaughter operations and Smithfield’s massive Five Rivers Cattle Feeding LLC, the nation’s largest cattle feedlot with one-time capacity of 811,000 head, the three remaining firms will have over 80 percent market share of U.S. steer/heifer slaughter.

Last week, the Bureau of Land Management announced it was exploring options to decrease the number of wild horses and burros in the nation’s free-roaming herds. Those herd sizes can double about every four years, so it’s obvious that management is essential.
As of June 2008, the agency has more than 30,000 wild horses in short- […]

Hello again,
The start of July doesn’t seem to have brought much help to us in the hay making department.
Thank God for Sunfilm and tube wrappers as dry hay is just about impossible in central eastern Ohio.
Wheat harvest will need to crank up soon or I don’t see too many double crop beans getting […]

When a good thing doesn’t come to an end, it is still ever subject to change. In 1971, the fall I went off to college, Masterpiece Theater began its first season. I didn’t find time to watch any of the first productions: The First Churchills and The Six Wives of Henry VIII, among them (I […]