Thursday, April 25, 2024

Monthly Archives: April 2006

I have never been, shall we say, comfortable with entertaining. When it comes to the planning and preparation involved with inviting people over to dine, I would much rather go to a nice, relaxing dental appointment or something less taxing like that.

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - You may not recognize his name, but almost every adult living in America has driven, used, worn, played with, collected or admired something created by

URBANA, Ill. - Herbicides are designed to selectively kill weeds in crops. At the same time, it is difficult for most herbicides to selectively control weeds that are closely related to certain major crops, such as grass weeds in corn and wheat and broadleaf weeds in soybeans and cotton.

CORNUCOPIA, Wis. - The Cornucopia Institutehas filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding the USDA provide public records sought through several Freedom of Information Act requests.

BILLINGS, Mont. - Jurors in a federal class action trial reached a unanimous verdict April 12 against three of the nation's largest multinational meat packers for ignoring incorrect boxed-beef price reports issued by the USDA during a six-week period in the spring of 2001.

URBANA, Ill. - Hog prices have lost their luster, according to a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist.

SALEM, Ohio - Farm and Dairy staff members earned five awards in the

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - You have to go back to the early 1980s to find a March as dry as this one in Pennsylvania.

SALEM, Ohio - A tractor tire exploded last week at a Trumbull County dairy farm, killing the mechanic.

BARNESVILLE, Ohio - Don Guindon stomps his boots, hangs his Select Sires hat on a peg, rolls up the sleeves on his flannel shirt and comes in for lunch.