Friday, April 19, 2024

LONDON, Ohio - When tackling a new challenge, getting advice from someone more experienced can be the key to success.

LONDON, Ohio - It seems like everyone these days is on the biofuels bandwagon: politicians, farmers, environmentalists and consumers.

TIVERTON CENTER, Ohio - Mark and Wayne Hochstetler are patient men. Tree farmers by trade, these Amish brothers are aware they'll never live long enough to see the payoff from the long hours they put into their operation.

ROCHESTER, Pa. - The Big Knob Fair livestock sale generated $31,659.81 for 4-H'ers this year. Steers.

LONDON, Ohio - They don't do it because it makes their farms "look nice." Or just because they get government cost-share dollars to install a grassed waterway, a windbreak or a manure storage facility.

LONDON, Ohio - At last week's Farm Science Review, Ohio Gov. Bob Taft and the USDA highlighted increased provisions and enhancements to the

BELTSVILLE, Md. - Compost tea is a brew favored by many organic growers. It's made by adding small amounts of mature compost to unheated water and leaving it to sit, or steep.

WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa - You never know what you're going to see in Jon Kinzenbaw's "back yard" as you drive along Interstate 80, just west of Williamsburg, Iowa.

Grain harvest is fast approaching and it is time to prepare storage facilities and harvest equipment for the coming corn and soybeans.