SALEM, Ohio – Permit applications have been filed with the Ohio Department of Agriculture that may allow a 6 million hen poultry farm to be built in Union County.
SALEM, Ohio – Keep an eye on livestock projects. That’s the warning issued recently to three county fair boards by the Ohio Department of Agriculture after livestock projects exhibited at the fairs reportedly didn’t end up at the slaughterhouse, breaking state rules.
SALEM, Ohio – Specifics of a new farm bill may drag into the new year, after Senate members left the legislation lifeless and went home for Thanksgiving recess Nov.
SALEM, Ohio – Another season jam-packed with county fair coverage has come to an end in Farm and Dairy.
SALEM, Ohio – The cows know what’s coming. Trumbull County cattleman Jim Balzer schleps across the muddy cow lane toward the pasture behind his house, his herd of 20-plus Simmental brood cows in tow.
CANFIELD, Ohio – Dave and Kathy Moff were lauded as the Mahoning County Soil and Water Conservation District’s 2006 Cooperator of the Year when the group met Oct.
SALEM, Ohio – Nobody’s letting go, and for good reason. Any farmer with baled hay to burn is holding it tight, knowing dairymen, beef and sheep producers, and horse and llama owners will keep scrambling to find forages, and that they’ll open their wallets wider and wider to pay for it as winter sets in.
CANFIELD, Ohio – Dave Moff knows he’s got two options. He swings open a pasture gate and stares one in the face: his herd of Holsteins.
SEBRING, Ohio – Forget the trends, the ag economists and their forecasts, and how things used to be.
SALEM, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Agriculture has launched an investigation of the Geauga County Fair’s grand champion market steer.
SALEM, Ohio – Gene Starkey nearly fell to his knees crying. Just outside the back door of his Champaign County dairy barn, where a silo and Harvestore and four hopper-bottom feed bids stand, a black cloud overwhelmed him.
FOMBELL, Pa. – Numbers float through Brant Cooper’s mind. Forty-two, the number of years he’s lived, and 22, the number of years he’s been married to the girl he met at the Big Knob Fair.
AKRON – “Hmm, what was that?” Three judges raise plastic spoons to their mouths, pressing their lips together and slurping the amber liquid they’ve doled out like gold.
SALEM, Ohio – Farmers and farm supporters may soon get a new way to show their enthusiasm for Ohio’s No.
SALEM, Ohio – Some Ohio farmers will take to the roads Oct. 19 in “fast tractors” with a new law to protect them and a new symbol to identify them.
SALEM, Ohio – The maiden run of Ohio’s beef heifer development program saw such success that its founders have expanded it, adding two more locations and more than tripling its ability to help beef producers add to their bottom line.
SALEM, Ohio – The son of a dairy farmer left Washington, D.C., last week, walking away from what he called a ‘dream come true’ to follow his heart home to Nebraska.
SALEM, Ohio – Arson is suspected and an investigation is under way after a 155-year-old bank barn in Stark County burned to the ground Sept.
By Andrea Zippay SALEM, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Agriculture continues its fight with Ohio Fresh Eggs, this time filing a court appeal to keep the farm from getting its permits back.
EAST CANTON, Ohio – A surprised Charlotte and Roland Miller received the Stark County Farm Bureau’s Distinguished Service Award when the group held its annual meeting Sept.