Monthly Archives: October 2003
Remote livestock health sensors and wireless data storage in the works
The system can alert producers and veterinarians to emerging disease.
Regulations: Pa. program addresses ‘needs’
The program will show producers how to follow best management practices.
Ohio EPA holds livestock hearings
Public hearings in Wooster and Lima focus on Ohio EPA's role in animal agriculture.
Mobile labs measure confinement livestock barn emissions in six states
Researchers use mobile labs to measure the dust, odor and gas inside buildings and exhaust fan flow rates.
Free record-keeping system will help Pa. dairymen increase productivity
The easy-to-use record-keeping system is designed to increase milk production.
Average Ohio farm values up 3.7 percent
Since 2000, the average value of pasture land has increased 25 percent in Ohio.
Test program helps beginning farmers
Pennsylvania is part of a six-state pilot program to assist beginning farmers.
Demand it and they will make it
Farmers can plant and raise whatever they want, but consumers' demands really shape the food industry.
Waste not: Out of the landfill and into the gas pump
A Wooster man is hoping the genesis of this technology will spur a solid waste revolution.
Happy birthday to us… and to you!
n this week's commentary, Editor Susan Crowell shares why this issue of Farm and Dairy is so special to readers and staff members alike.
