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APPLE CREEK, Ohio — About once a week, a stranger peers through the door at Morning Star Fiber.
Just curious, they say to owner Karen Christensen when she spies them. I drive by here all the time, but I don’t know what you do.
If it happens to be a down day, Christensen or her […]

SALEM, Ohio — What once looked like a high-flying and profitable opportunity — and sold under the promise to save family farms –seems to be crashing to the ground.
At least one Ohio breeder has confirmed rumors Arlan Galbraith has filed bankruptcy on his Ontario-based Pigeon King International pigeon breeding business.
Lucy Burkholder, whose husband Tim owns […]

SALEM, Ohio — In the past few weeks, Joy Weaver’s gotten pretty good at reading minds.
Inside Catalpa Grove Farm Market, near Columbiana, Ohio, Weaver and other employees know just what that customer lingering near the tomatoes is wondering.
Are these safe?
Where are they from?
“It’s almost like you’ve got to post a sign to let them […]

MARYSVILLE, Ohio — More than 400 people celebrated the Ohio Cattlemen’s Association BEST (Beef Exhibitor Show Total) Program as it wrapped up its 2007-08 show season June 7 at its annual awards banquet held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus.
More than 390 head of cattle were entered in the program, with more than […]

BUTLER, Pa. — The Northwest Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s Association sponsored the annual Keystone Junior Beef Classic May 24-25 at the Butler Fairgrounds. Over 100 youth exhibited their beef cattle.

Exhibitors came from Maryland, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to compete for prizes. Breeds included Angus, Hereford, Limousin, Maine-Anjou, Shorthorn, Simmental, and crossbred.

Overall, 76 breeding stock […]

WASHINGTON — The same Global Positioning System (GPS) technology used to track vehicles is now being used to track cows.

But Agricultural Research Service animal scientist Dean M. Anderson has taken tracking several steps further with a Walkman-like headset that enables him to “whisper” wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape — […]

By ARTHUR BOLDUC

What do draft horse teamsters do when they get caught up on their work? They find somebody who hasn’t, and you might say they have a draft horse-plowing frolic.

They all show up bright and early, usually on a Saturday, and make short work of what otherwise could be a week’s work.

When Joe Reed, […]

SALEM, Ohio — More than 10 years ago, on the way home from his county’s first-ever farmland preservation meeting, Pennsylvania farmer Craig Sweger had an epiphany.
“We can buy the development rights to every single acre of every farm in Washington County, but there will still be no farms unless we preserve the farmer.”
That idea, coupled […]

SALEM, Ohio — Another state has clipped the wings of Pigeon King International.
Maryland’s Securities Commissioner filed an order requesting Pigeon King International and its owner, Arlan Galbraith, show cause for doing business there.
The order, filed May 19, said the state had “determined that grounds exist to allege that Pigeon King violated the registration, disclosure, and […]

In mid-May, the anticipation at Kretschmann Farm is unmistakable. Workers scurry from field to field, tractors wait impatiently for drivers and Don Kretschmann walks with an urgent step. It’s growing season and every minute counts.