UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Pennsylvania is the fourth-largest producer of apples in the U.S., and since many Pennsylvanians will be taking advantage of this fact this fall, Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences offers helpful apple preservation and cooking tips through its online booklet, Let’s Preserve: Apples.
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Produced by the Department of Food Science, […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — For more than two years, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture researchers have been heading up a project aimed at improving food safety and defense measures associated with bulk milk transport.
CAMDEN, N.J. — Fall signals harvest season across the country. This year it also marks the kick-off of a national campaign to help support the future of American farming.
Campbell Soup Co. is partnering with the National FFA Organization and Grammy-nominee Jewel to help raise awareness of the importance of supporting the future of American […]
PIKETON, Ohio — A new statewide cooperative has formed to address the business needs of farmers’ markets while raising their visibility with consumers interested in local products and foods.
Through the Ohio State University South Centers Ohio Cooperative Development Center, the Farmers’ Market Management Network, Inc., was established to encourage farmers’ market managers and their vendors […]
Producers can convert earthen manure storage structures into ponds, pastures or cropland, but it takes planning.
PIKETON, Ohio — Ohio farmers’ markets and their vendors looking to boost their marketing efforts in providing fresh, local foods to consumers will receive assistance through a new Ohio State University Extension program.
OSU South Centers at Piketon was recently awarded a $99,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Business Enterprise grant to launch the Growing! […]
MANHATTAN, Kan. — The high cost of fertilizer nutrients is convincing some producers to go to the birds. Poultry, that is.
More specifically, they are turning to poultry waste, or litter. Poultry litter can provide a significant and important supply of nutrients for crop production, said Doug Shoup, Kansas State University Research and Extension Southeast […]
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — Ohio’s old crop corn stocks in all positions Sept. 1 totaled 75.4 million bushels, 83 percent above the 41.3 million bushels stored one year ago.
On-farm stocks, at 27 million bushels, accounted for 36 percent of the total stored and increased 93 percent from the 14 million bushels last year. Off-farm stocks […]
ROCHESTER, Pa. — The Big Knob 4-H Livestock Club will hold a meeting Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Big Knob Grange Hall basement, Rochester.
All boys and girls between 8 and 18 as of Jan. 1, 2009, are eligible to join the club.
Members will expand their knowledge about working with market beef, poultry, sheep […]
ASHLAND, Ohio — The Crestview FFA participated in the 2008 Richland County Soils contest in Plymouth Sept. 16. Crestview won first place in both the urban and rural contest.
Placing first in the urban contest was Loren Huliet with a score of 629 and placing second was David Gerster with a 593.
Placing first in the rural […]