Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget (or at least ‘hazard a guess’ as to its use).

Are you just dying to share a great deal you got at an auction? Do you have a great story to go with that deal? Then answer this question….What was the best buy you ever got at an auction?
Farm and Dairy would like to give you a chance to brag and tell our readers all […]

- Auctioneer Randy Compton of Russ Kiko Associates Inc. Auctioneers, Canton, Ohio, held a real estate auction July 30 in Canal Fulton, Ohio.
The real estate, a duplex with two bedrooms, one bath, a laundry room and an eat-in kitchen per side, sold for $92,400.
According to Compton, there were approximately 17 bidders registered and the […]

MILLERSBURG, Ohio — Four members of the West Holmes FFA, Cynthia Bunch, Victoria Carpenter, Derek Reutter and Kiersten Sigler, attended Ohio Leadership Camp.

Members attended four sessions teaching about leadership and problem solving.

On July 26, the West Holmes FFA officer team, Tyler Schonauer, Garrett O’Donnell, Victoria Carpenter, Cynthia Bunch, Kiersten Sigler, Jimmy Henry, Jared Zollars and […]

JEFFERSON, Ohio — Stephanie Mason was selected to represent Ashtabula County at State 4-H Leadership Camp at 4-H Camp Ohio July 13-17.

The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation and Nationwide sponsor the program and provide full camp scholarships for up to two 4-H members from each of Ohio’s 88 counties.

Mason is the daughter of Mr. and […]

Find out who topped the junior fair market livestock competitions, and see if you’re in a slideshow of photos taken at this year’s Columbiana County Fair.

- Auctioneer Eugene F. Kiko of Russ Kiko Associates Inc. Auctioneers, Canton, Ohio, held the Robert L. Hunker trust auction July 18 in Waynesburg, Ohio, with 650 registered bidders.
The 73-acre country estate sold for $700,000.
The top-selling item was a New Holland 6610 diesel tractor that sold for $21,000.
Other highlights included a Steinway Duo-Art […]

Surviving the dairy crisis may mean changes to operation

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — Perseverance, heart, soul, patience and optimism.
These are the traits a dairy farmer has had to develop in order to make it through the past several months of low milk prices. Or what many of them say they had to develop in order to […]

MINERVA, Ohio — The M-Town Clovers 4-H club met July 19 at the fairgrounds with 13 members in attendance.

The club will participate again this year in the Carroll County Back to School Extravaganza by filling two backpacks, one for a girl and one for a boy.

Honor member, honor club forms and secretary and treasurer books […]

Attention shutterbugs! Have you ever wanted to shoot a cover photo?
Well, Farm and Dairy is offering you that chance.
We are conducting a photo contest and the winning photo will appear on the cover of the 2010 Agri-Book.
Photos must have a farm/agricultural connection and can encompass anything in the rural community from rolling […]