ALBANY, Ohio — The Alexander FFA chapter recently held its summer meeting and cookout at Ethan Sayers’ house. Thirty-two members and three guests showed up for the meeting and cookout.
Members discussed plans for the upcoming Athens County Fair including improvements to the FFA booths, FFA fun day, and the annual fair cook out.
After the meeting […]
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. — The future looks rosy for a blue tractor that’s pulled away from the diesel fuel pump in favor of a new and experimental fuel: vegetable oil.
New Holland and Penn State researchers proudly displayed their brainchild, a NH T7060 that runs on straight vegetable oil — the same kind you use in […]
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. — “Are there too many zeroes behind that number?”
It’s a question Penn State Cooperative Extension educator Robin Kuleck stopped asking — wondering if that $200,000 natural gas lease she was reviewing was really supposed to read $20,000, or maybe just $2,000 — after she learned the potential income behind natural gas leases […]
Shamrock Vale Farms in Kensington, Ohio, is one of the oldest and most successful grazing operations in the Buckeye State. Earl and Dan McKarns, a father-son team, raise about 150 registered Angus seedstock cow-calf pairs in a total forage system. On Aug. 19, the McKarns family opened the farm to nearly 300 visitors who wanted to learn more about raising grass-based cattle.
The name of a new program in Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson and Tuscarawas counties gives a perfect description of its basic foundation — Leadership Education and Development.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Long a problem in the western U.S., the New Zealand mud snail currently inhabits four of the five Great Lakes and is spreading into rivers and tributaries, according to a Penn State team of researchers.
These tiny creatures out-compete native snails and insects, but are not good fish food replacements for the […]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — More pork is being produced in the U.S. but less is available for U.S. consumers, said a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist.
“What does more pork production but less available for U.S. consumers mean?” said Chris Hurt.
“Pork exports grew by 68 percent in the first half of the year and imports fell […]
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found July 24 that the food additive conjugated linoleic acid, known as CLA, is “generally regarded as safe” for use in foods.
This clears the way for CLA, a healthy type of fat found in meats and dairy products, to be used as an ingredient in foods and beverages […]
WARREN, Ohio — Get over it, Rita Kibler says.
Get over the fact that she’s a female tractor puller, one who frequently tops the competition, and one who happens to sit atop a custom-painted pink Farmall.
Get over it, she says, because it’s not just a tractor. It’s a healing tool she uses to get over an […]
See our collection of photographs taken at the 2008 Ag Progress Days.