It doesn’t get much uglier than this
TAMPA, Fla. - Magic mirror, on the wall, whose tomato is ugliest of all? With so many ugly entries to its Ugly Tomato Contest, Santa Sweets couldn't pick just one and instead decided to award 10 prizes for some of the most unsightly tomatoes that make their famous Uglyripes look pretty good.
Safe and sound: Nearly 200 years after construction, a barn is restored to the...
The year was 1838. Martin Van Buren was president, Michigan had just become a state, the Civil War was still over 20 years in the future and the cornerstone of my barn was placed.
U.S. corn harvest largest on record
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - U.S. farmers are on pace for the largest corn crop on record, as growers expect to harvest the most corn acres for grain since 1933.
Warm winter a blessing and a curse
WASHINGTON - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters are calling for above-average temperatures over most of the country and a continuation of drier-than-average conditions across already drought-stricken parts of the Southwest and Southeast in its winter outlook for the United States.
Ohio farmers opposed to power line running through their cropland
GEAUGA COUNTY, Ohio - Farmers in Montville, Thompson and Huntsburg townships are wired about CEI/FirstEnergy's determination to run transmission lines through crops and woodlands just east of state Route 528.
Pressing on: Sorghum complements farm’s maple syrup production
JELLOWAY, Ohio - One of the first lessons they teach in economics class is economics is about getting the most benefits from resources that are scarce.
Dynamic duo: McCulloughs diversify so they can farm
MERCER, Pa. - Digging fence post holes is often one of the least favorite jobs on the farm. But brothers John and David McCullough gladly do it - and they dig a lot of them - just so they can farm.
Facing challenges the mustang way
SALEM, Ohio - Dave McClelland won't get the manure spreader he was hoping for, but he did make an important addition to his farm this summer.
Dairy alliance program helps bring employee management to forefront
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - "What they teach in business school really works on the farm!" That's the realization Joel Stauring, an agricultural finance specialist with Dehm Associates of Geneseo, N.
How should U.S. deal with China?
COLUMBUS - Economic imbalances of two of the world's major players - the United States and China - could shake things up in the global market, but Congress' protectionist stance against China to right the economic problems of both countries is not the solution, said one economist.
