Monthly Archives: November 2004
Obstacles continue in WTO farm talks
ATHENS, Ga. - World Trade Organization negotiators, who met last week at the organization's headquarters, have yet to advance specifics on how all nations of the world subsidize and protect their agriculture sectors.
Grange wraps up national convention
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - More than 3,000 people recently visited Rochester, N.Y., for the 138th National Grange Convention, traveling from 40 states, including Alaska, New Mexico and Wyoming.
Farmers elect Shaffer new Pa. Farm Bureau president
HERSHEY, Pa. -Pennsylvania Farm Bureau members have elected vice president Carl Shaffer as the organization's new president.
Crone noticed for ag involvement
HERSHEY, Pa. - Pennsylvania Farm Bureau announced the winners of the Young Farmer and Rancher Discussion Meet and Excellence in Ag award.
Central Ohio’s own outback
LANCASTER, Ohio - Tammie Rogers swings her pouch over her shoulder and hides it in the layers of her fleece coat.
Court: Creager’s hog disqualified
SALEM, Ohio - Ohio's 10th District Court of Appeals agrees with Ohio Agriculture Director Fred Dailey: Taylor Creager's 2002 Ohio State Fair grand champion hog is disqualified.
Chuey gets Mahoning SWCD award
CANFIELD, Ohio - Springfield Township farmer Carl Chuey received the Mahoning Soil and Water Conservation District's Cooperator of the Year award when the district held its annual meeting Nov.
Uncertain BSE test prompts concern
WASHINGTON - All of agriculture held its collective breath late last week to learn whether or not an inconclusive test result for mad cow disease proved false or positive.
Staring down the mouse that roared
I am decidedly a country girl from way back, but I confess to one odd trait that makes me look like a city kid in the biggest way.
Political wisdom for the heartland
The first political wisdom ever sent my way came from the gravelly throat of Everett Dirksen.
During Dirksen's 1968 reelection stop in my southern Illinois hometown, I asked the white-maned Senate Minority Leader how he'd outflank Mayor Daley's Chicago vote machine.
