Farm country rides economic wave
Remember the 1992 presidential campaign that pitted Bill Clinton against Bush the Elder? It gave us that wonderfully pithy saying, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
Remember the 1992 presidential campaign that pitted Bill Clinton against Bush the Elder? It gave us that wonderfully pithy saying, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
GEORGETOWN, Pa. — Kenneth G. Moore, 73, died July 8, 2008, at the Medical Center of Beaver after a brief illness.
He was born July 8, 1935, in Hanover Township, Pa., a son of the late Kenneth C. Moore and Nina J. Moore Stewart.
He retired from the Pa. Department of Transportation and also owned K […]
It is difficult to think about anything but the U.S. banking sector implosion these days. Even though Wall Street is miles from your home or farm, and we often tune out the intricacies of global finance and its impact, we can’t ignore the situation at hand.
Monday afternoon’s news was all about the failed House vote […]
The latest brouhaha stems from the USDA’s interpretation of COOL.
Tents went flying. So did portable toilets. And when the high winds from Hurricane Ike died down, the Molly Caren Agricultural Center, home of the Farm Science Review ag expo, looked like a war zone.
AUGUSTA, Ohio — Joel Salatin thinks in terms of multiples: multiple uses for land, multiple uses for equipment, multiple uses for animals. In fact, he’s christened his home in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley Polyface Farm, or “the farm of many faces.”
He embraces so many ventures and crosses so many philosophical lines that it’s hard to categorize […]
We asked successful individuals to recall their early employment experiences, and share what they learned from their first job. Their lessons are universal.
There are no super powers out there to magically whisk your farming operation safely into the future, so I gotta tell you: It’s morphin’ time!
The small signs were plastered throughout the barns at the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds: “Who will buy the million dollar steer?” and “Who will buy the half-million dollar hog?”
The signs made sense when sale officials announced this would be the year that the total for the steer sale would pass the million dollar mark (at least […]
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 Stark County Fair.