Monthly Archives: July 2006
Skin deep wrinkles creep
The world at large is always nattering on about how beauty is only "skin deep", but as far as I'm concerned, that's plenty deep enough.
Soybean growers debate future
ST. LOUIS - U.S. soybean farmers are looking for new ways to build demand for soybeans and soy products by exploring partnership activities with growers in Paraguay.
Pa. farmers fight both drought and flooding in a few chaotic months
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - It seems like it hasn't quit raining since Bryan Swistock voiced worries in mid-April about an impending groundwater drought in Pennsylvania.
New plant blankets areas of Ohio
BELMONT, Ohio - Drive along any road southeastern Ohio this month and you can't miss it. The low-growing, three-leafed greenery with small, bright yellow blossoms seems to border most highways and punctuate the open fields with its presence.
Hog inventories remain unchanged
WASHINGTON - Ohio hog producers had 1,580,000 hogs on hand June 1, unchanged from last year, but 4 percent above last quarter.
Ethanol facility coming to eastern Ohio
COSHOCTON, Ohio - Coshocton Ethanol LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Altra Inc., a California-based developer of renewable fuel projects, has commenced construction on Ohio's first major ethanol production facility in the eastern Ohio/Pennsylvania region based in Coshocton, Ohio.
Canada confirms mad cow disease
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease in a 50-month-old dairy cow from Alberta.
Amish dairyman banned from selling raw milk again
SALEM, Ohio - Dairyman Arlie Stutzman claims he sells raw milk because of his religious beliefs but that isn't a good enough reason for him to continue, a judge recently ruled.
Trumbull County Fair
CORTLAND, Ohio - Visions of stacking a freezer full of fresh meat filled their heads. It may have not been so much the meat they were thinking about: It's likely buyers at the Trumbull County Fair were trying to imagine icy cold blasts from the freezer to stop their sweating during the sale July 15.
Free to a good home: Grant adds Pa. wind turbine sites
SALEM, Ohio - Small wind turbines will be coming to four western Pennsylvania communities, thanks to a grant that lets public properties receive the machinery without cost.
