Monthly Archives: February 2008
Beekeepers get a boost from funding
Nearly 1,000 West Virginia beekeepers are beginning to reap the benefits of $200,000 in funding authorized last year by the state legislature to help the apiary industry recover from drought- and freeze-related losses last year.
The ultimate “answer” Web site
Kansas State University Research and Extension is a partner in a groundbreaking new Web site, eXtension.org.
Look it up: Latest edition of ag thesaurus online
The USDA National Agricultural Library has published 2008 editions of its National Agricultural Library Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary of Agricultural Terms in both Spanish and English.
Geauga County: Still no answers in steer dispute
The stepsisters who used their 4-H steer calves as walking billboards to protest the way the Geauga County fair board is handling the discovery of drugs in last year’s champion still don’t know if they’ll be allowed to participate in the 2008 fair.
Del Muls grant first farm easement in Ashtabula Co.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture recently accepted its first permanent agricultural easement donation in Ashtabula County from landowners Henry and Louise Del Mul.
Pa. couple earns Conservation Farm of the Year
WARREN, Pa. — Aggravation Acres, owned and operated by Vicki and Rich Gilkinson, was named as the Conservation Farm of the Year recently at...
Program focuses on grass-fed products
A new grass-fed beef and lamb initiative in Ohio is reaching out to both sides of the market.
Don’t take our technology: Farmers talk to legislators
TOWNVILLE, Pa. — The brisk, single-digit temperatures of the winter morning didn’t deter farmers, legislators or the media from gathering at Apple Shamrock Farm...
Orchard pruning requires that human touch
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — Anybody who believes that apple or other orchard-fruit growing is a seasonal job with a winter vacation would be surprised...
The subscription king retires
SALEM, Ohio — Forty-five years ago, Wayne Hammond walked into the Farm and Dairy office and made an offer we couldn’t refuse: Let me...
