Monthly Archives: February 2006
What Important Lessons Have You Learned?
Be My Guest (Columnist) I offer this pointed article by Kia Harries in place of my own column with appreciation to her.
Working the bugs out of family sick times
You really need to be in tip-top shape to come down with anything nowadays. The down-and-out workout.
White House Fruit Farm is finalist national honor
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.
Organic dairy workshop set March 3
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.
Ohio, Pa., and W.Va. watersheds in ’06 CSP
Ohio pork council salutes Bayes, Ott and Strickler
COLUMBUS - The 2006 Ohio Pork Congress held in Columbus, Feb. 8 attracted many visitors and honored Ohio's pork industry standouts.
Ohio Agro Bio-Security office is open
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.
Fresh market is marketing success
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.
Cattlemen urge Supreme Court to review ‘price manipulation’
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.
America is more than rural vs. urban
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.