Thursday, April 25, 2024

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

WASHINGTON - Thanks to nanotechnology, tomorrow's food will be designed by shaping molecules and atoms.

JEFFERSON, Ohio -

MALVERN, Ohio - At the farmers' markets near Akron and Cleveland, customers sometimes approach a couple toting coolers and call out to Rose or Ridge.

LONDON, Ohio - "Are you a Chevy or Ford or Dodge guy?" Eric Barrett asked. Case or John Deere? Pioneer or Seed Consultants? Bounty or Brawny? Handfuls of people perched on bales of straw last week at the Farm Science Review's Small Farm Center started to chatter, knowing their answers to those simple questions made one giant point: Branding works.

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio - The 2006 Guernsey County Junior Fair market animal sale was very successful for the exhibitors as buyers at the 159th Guernsey County Fair supported this event with great enthusiasm.

BOARDMAN, Ohio - Mahoning County Farm Bureau volunteer leaders received all 10 of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation's Standards of Achievement, or star, awards during last week's annual banquet.