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Monthly Archives: February 2006

Be My Guest (Columnist) I offer this pointed article by Kia Harries in place of my own column with appreciation to her.

You really need to be in tip-top shape to come down with anything nowadays. The down-and-out workout.

SOUTHAMPTON, Mass. - For the second year in a row, White House Fruit Farm in Canfield, Ohio, was honored as a finalist for the Outstanding Farm Market of the Year by the North American Farmers' Direct Marketing Association.

COLUMBUS - Wisconsin dairy farmer and author Gary Zimmer will lead a one-day intensive workshop on organic dairy production March 3, 2006, at the Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware, Ohio.

WASHINGTON - The 2006 Conservation Security Program sign-up is now through March 31. In Ohio, the

COLUMBUS - The 2006 Ohio Pork Congress held in Columbus, Feb. 8 attracted many visitors and honored Ohio's pork industry standouts.

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - The new Agro Bio-Security office at the Ohio Department of Agriculture will develop, coordinate and implement security procedures to be used in the event of an emergency.

AMARILLO, Texas - Willie Wieck's farm in Etter, Texas, has a little bit of everything - wheat, cotton, seed maize, black-eyed peas, sunflowers, pumpkins, gourds, cantaloupes, watermelons, popcorn and sweet corn.

BILLINGS, Mont. - R-CALF USA - along with 36 local, state and tribal groups that represent independent cattle producers across the nation - jointly filed a friend-of-the-court brief Feb.

URBANA, Ill. - If you've ever taken a true/false test and found yourself wishing that on some questions there was a third choice of "both" you'll be able to identify with Andy Isserman's disappointment in the way the federal government defines urban and rural America.