Farmers are facing major input price increases with no immediate sign of relief ahead because of rising production costs associated with natural gas.

The Pa. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Farmland Preservation is stepping up its campaign to purchase agricultural conservation easements.

Programs are planned in western Pennsylvania for both the beginning and the experienced beekeeper.

Ohio Department of Natural Resources biologists report finding a variety of mussels in the Big Darby Creek.

President Bush has so many competing priorities he’s unlikely to advocate major changes in ag policy.

More beef cattle are eating frozen food this winter. And that’s good, says a University of Missouri forage specialist.

Farm Bureau rep’s comment regarding the Noble County visioning program angers another county resident.

If hog slaughter increases 4 percent to 5 percent this fall, compared to fall 2000, widening spreads between live hog and wholesale pork values will likely result in Iowa-southern Minnesota hog prices averaging in the upper $20s.

A new exhibit at the Arms Family Museum of Local History in Youngstown outlines the history of firefighting in the Mahoning Valley from the formation of its earliest companies to the present.

If they can develop a small piece of plastic you use to talk to people half way around the world, then battery-operated vehicles, with small engines running generators to recharge these batteries, could produce vehicles that would travel 200 miles per gallon.