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Monthly Archives: February 2006

WASHINGTON - National Association of Conservation Districts President Bill Wilson recently expressed concern with the lack of funding for conservation programs in the Administration's proposed fiscal year 2007 budget.

WOOSTER, Ohio - Dairy farmers should be on the lookout for poor quality silage because it can lead to listeriosis, an illness also known as silage disease and circling disease.

ITHACA, N.Y. - More than two-thirds of the food in U.S. markets has at least some amount of a crop that has been genetically engineered.

SALEM, Ohio - It was a decade ago, a scorching summer Sunday, when Hollis and Lowell Kemp got up from the pews of their local church and walked out.

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio - A crowd of fired-up residents from the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District shouted protests and objections during a public hearing Feb. 16. Some shouts objected to the proposed assessment in the district and some shouts objected to the format of the meeting.

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio - Whether they're in favor of the proposed maintenance plan or not, residents of the

CANFIELD, Ohio - The beef industry's response to bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been a "tremendous success story," according to Elizabeth Harsh, executive director of the

I spent Friday night with a singing farmer's daughter and it was the most fun I've had in a very long time.

The federal government's annual game of fact or fiction - once known as the budget process - kicked off its nine-month season Feb.

An interesting question came in the other day. "What does Extension think about sand-based freestalls versus waterbeds?" It is fair to say that Extension fully supports sand as the platinum freestall base for a couple of reasons.