Monthly Archives: June 2005
PROGRESS: Amish farms join to build agricultural markets
MOUNT EATON, Ohio - Forty years ago, 90 percent of the Amish and Mennonite families in Wayne and Holmes counties were engaged in agriculture.
Brown Swiss sales reach record high
WOOSTER, Ohio - The Snapshots of Springhill Starmark Sale in Wooster, Ohio, reached a new record sale average for consignment auctions in the Brown Swiss breed.
USDA: Science-based ag grads will be in demand
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A USDA report paints a rosy employment picture for college graduates in agricultural sciences and natural resources over the next five years.
Uncommon wheat disease is in Ohio
WOOSTER, Ohio - A cereal rust, most problematic on wheat in the Pacific Northwest and lower central Plains states, has made a rare appearance in Ohio this year.
Maternity spa for cows: Innovative partnership keeps herds healthy
ST. PAUL, Minn. -
PROGRESS: Getting the real deal on deer
SALEM, Ohio - Ask most deer farmers and you'll hear the same thing: Back when he or she began deer farming, whether it was six or 16 years ago, there weren't many others around, but now it seems deer farms are everywhere.
PROGRESS: Geauga Family Farms: Farmers pave own future path
SALEM, Ohio - A year and a half ago when six men sat down in a Geauga County farmhouse kitchen, they knew just what they wanted, but they didn't know how to achieve it.
PROGRESS: Farmers find their way with deer
MAGNOLIA, Ohio - When Carolyn Laughlin has a rough day at work, she just concentrates on getting home quickly.
Conflicting results: Old ‘inconclusive’ may be BSE positive
SALEM, Ohio - Seven months after the USDA confirmed an inconclusive BSE test was not mad cow disease, a second test said otherwise.
PROGRESS: Grazing works for Sutton dairy
IRONDALE, Ohio - The first summer twentysomething Harold "Jake" Sutton was on his own as a dairyman, he had the cows, the barn, the tractors.
