Monthly Archives: February 2007
Nuisance deer the topic of workshop
CARROLLTON, Ohio - Deer damage to crops is a serious problem faced by crop and tree farmers in Carroll County.
Keep your farm ready for anything
JEFFERSON, Ohio - A farm safety and preparedness workshop will be March 1 at St. Mary's Parish Hall in Orwell, Ohio.
Is it summer yet?
The winter storm that blew through the region the week of Feb. 11 left us longing for sunshine and warm breezes.
Historic Ohio coal spade scrapped
CADIZ, Ohio - CONSOL Energy's last and largest super excavating shovel left in the world, the Silver Spade, has been scrapped.
Dairy owners and employees can learn about feedbunk, milk harvest practices
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Penn State Dairy Alliance and the Professional Dairy Managers of Pennsylvania are hosting a series workshops on feeding management and milk harvest management.
Biofuels, beef and big corn acres: Feds see farm outlook in their crystal ball
URBANA, Ill. - Some of us want to know what the future holds, like tomorrow's weather forecast. Others want to know what the future holds so they can calculate what the farm economy will be like in 10 years.
EPA slaps Ohio Fresh Eggs with fines
SALEM, Ohio - The Ohio EPA has slapped Ohio Fresh Egg owners with a $13,250 penalty for drinking water violations at the farm's Croton facility.
Farmers linked through program
SALEM, Ohio - He's a farmer looking for land. She's a farmer who can't get in the fields anymore. In a perfect world, the two might work out some kind of special arrangement.
Good life takes hard work done well
How does one define a life well lived? There are many people who would base this answer on the amount of money one has in the bank, or the vehicles parked in the garage or the number of vacations a fellow can afford in a year.
Farm bill is a wobbly effort at best
When longtime Texas congressman "Cotton" Charlie Stenholm got bushwhacked for re-election by colleague Tom DeLay's infamous Texas redistricting plan in 2004, most ag policy hands lamented that much of the House Agriculture Committee's farm bill experience went down with him.
