SALEM, Ohio – It’s likely several cows in the U.S. currently have BSE, but the number is so low that it may be time to stop rigorous testing, according to the
SALEM, Ohio – It doesn’t look like commercial hay producers need to worry about stamping bar-coded stickers on thousands of hay bales.
SALEM, Ohio – Two months after a Holmes County farmer’s dairy license was revoked, he is now back in business.
SALEM, Ohio – A tractor tire exploded last week at a Trumbull County dairy farm, killing the mechanic.
BARNESVILLE, Ohio – Don Guindon stomps his boots, hangs his Select Sires hat on a peg, rolls up the sleeves on his flannel shirt and comes in for lunch.
SALEM, Ohio – Commercial hay producers soon may be among the growing list of sectors keeping detailed records and zeroing in on bioterrorism.
WHILE the first few weeks were fascinating and heartbreaking and every TV in America was tuned to hurricane coverage last fall, the public soon lost interest.
SALEM, Ohio – Four West Virginia farms are quarantined after importing Ohio hogs with a strain of tuberculosis.
MERCER, Pa. – Penn State’s Mark Douglass stood in a room full of farmers and told them each how much money they’re losing every year.
SALEM, Ohio – Farm and Dairy readers sure know how to make a difference.
In a March 2 article, Ohio offers hand to Gulf Coast farmers, cattleman Duane Plessinger asked for help in his efforts to donate and deliver hay to Gulf Coast farmers still struggling to make ends meet months after hurricanes Rita and Katrina.
SALEM, Ohio – You can’t sell it. It’s that simple. But some people don’t seem to care. They want it – and believe in it – so fiercely they’ll do whatever it takes, even if it may bend the law.
RAVENNA, Ohio – Dairy farming in Portage County may not be what it once was. Fewer farms. Increasing encroachment.
SAEGERTOWN, Pa. – In 1983, when Dick Byham kept his boss’s daughter out past her curfew, he thought for sure he’d be fired.
The dairyman stormed into the local paper and demanded to speak to the editor. His tone was “brusque, belligerent” and after he was directed to the appropriate spot, the “short oldish man with a rural turn to his speech, leaned the [butts] of his hands on the desk, stuck out a grizzled chin, and lit into the editor.
NEWCOMERSTOWN, Ohio – Farming has its way of taking hold of lives, of families, of generations. For Jerry Lahmers’ family in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, that hold is particularly tight.
SALEM, Ohio – With news of an impending hurricane, Louisiana cattlemen hauled their animals from the Gulf Coast to safety farther north.
SALEM, Ohio – It was a decade ago, a scorching summer Sunday, when Hollis and Lowell Kemp got up from the pews of their local church and walked out.
SALEM, Ohio – Recently proposed regulations would require Pennsylvania’s manure haulers and their employees to be certified and, in some cases, for the owner to be on-site during all applications.
SALEM, Ohio – Dairy farmers may have their safety net back, thanks to Congress’ extension of a milk price support program.
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