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No more evidence of bird flu in Canada

June 29, 2006

OTTAWA - Testing by Canada's avian influenza reference laboratory in Winnipeg has found no additional evidence of the avian influenza virus in birds from a small backyard flock in western Prince Edward Island.

The Champion

Former Farm and Dairy Reporters -

June 29, 2006

It was summer 1949, and young showman Jim Wiegers and his hogs were blazing the competition at Ohio fairs.

Ohio ‘priorities’ receive funding

Former Farm and Dairy Reporters -

June 29, 2006

SALEM, Ohio - The USDA recently doled out nearly $5 million to conservation programs across the country, and for the first time, $250,000 went to Ohio projects.

Dairy industry goes ‘big business’

Former Farm and Dairy Reporters -

June 29, 2006

SALEM, Ohio - Quality assurance is a "big business" term. Big companies with big budgets and important agendas, who want to be sure everything is produced in the fastest, safest ways.

One-on-one with the Pennsylvania State Fair Queen

Andrea Zippay -

June 29, 2006

Rebekah Dunn Butler, Pa. 2006 Pennsylvania State Fair Queen Rebekah Dunn was crowned queen of the

Japan, U.S. to resume beef trade

Andrea Zippay -

June 29, 2006

SALEM, Ohio - Marking the latest turn in what's become a revolving door of border openings and closings, the U.

Watershed fee delayed at least a year

Janelle Skrinjar -

June 29, 2006

SALEM, Ohio - The collection of a proposed assessment fee in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District will have to wait.

Trash can canvas

Janelle Skrinjar -

June 29, 2006

SALEM, Ohio - Toss your empty french fry cup in the trash at the

WTO negotiations still hung upon agricultural market access

Susan Crowell -

June 29, 2006

WASHINGTON - How many times can a presidential adviser say the word "bold" when discussing the latest push in agricultural negotiations within the World Trade Organization's Doha Round? Seven in two minutes.