Customers willing to pay more for locally-produced food at restaurants
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Not only are restaurant patrons willing to pay more for meals prepared with produce and meat from local providers, the...
VA to pay benefits for new Agent Orange claims
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun distributing disability benefits to Vietnam Veterans who qualify for compensation under recently liberalized rules for...
Temple Grandin to speak at OSU’s animal welfare symposium
Nov. 30 COLUMBUS -- The second annual Ohio State University Animal Welfare Symposium will be held Nov. 30 at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm...
Portion of the film Unstoppable shot in Ohio thanks to state’s tax credit
COLUMBUS -- Parts of the Twentieth Century Fox blockbuster movie Unstoppable, starring Denzel Washington, was filmed in Ohio using the state's Motion Picture Tax...
Farm Bureau: Proposed regulations on wood boilers in N.Y. are impractical
By DARRIN YOUKERContributing WriterNEW YORK -- Owners of outdoor wood boilers in New York caught a break in late October as state officials held...
Researchers unearth ancient garden
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Researchers at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Heidelberg University in Germany, have uncovered an ancient royal garden at the...
Milk producers group updates dairy cattle manual
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The National Milk Producers Federation has released a new manual intended to help improve animal health, while minimizing the chances of...
New produce safety alliance created at Cornell
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A new public-private organization at Cornell will provide produce growers and packagers with fundamental, on-farm food safety knowledge, in advance of...
Meijer’s installs electric vehicle chargers at stores
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer, the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based supercenter chain, has announced plans to install electric vehicle charging stations at several of its...
OFU files lawsuit to regain over $1 million in embezzled funds
Former Ohio Farmer’s Union Treasurer Kathy Beutler could file for judicial release at the end of November, but the OFU is seeking $1.2 million in damages in a new suit.
