Thursday, April 25, 2024

READING, Pa. - Walking into the Sheraton Inn conference room designated for the National Grange German/USA Friendship Program was like walking into a family reunion.

Jeff Zellers once intended to go to law school, but in 1987 decided to join the family farm business established by his grandparents in the 1920s.

ORWELL, Ohio - Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake counties have been approved for implementation of the 2006 Environmental Conservation Program Flood.

SALEM, Ohio - A Darke County judge has ruled that milk producer Carol Schmitmeyer can continue operating as a Grade A dairy producer as long as no raw milk is distributed to her herd share customers.

SALEM, Ohio - A new program is offering a financial incentive for farmers who are good environmental stewards.

BEALLSVILLE, Ohio -

HARRISBURG, Pa. - With tears welling, Donald Patterson from Greene Meade Belgians in Waynesburg, Pa.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - George Hunter of Stoneboro, Pa., celebrated a golden anniversary last week. No, it wasn't his wedding anniversary - which, incidentally, he and his wife Evelyn surpassed 13 years ago.

WASHINGTON - Retail prices for food at the supermarket increased slightly in the third quarter of 2006, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey.

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - The Ohio Department of Agriculture recently expanded the state's