Monthly Archives: December 2008
You win some and you lose one
It’s not easy being perfect.
Just ask my daughter’s soccer team — those kids are on fire! They played an entire outdoor season from late...
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of Dec. 18, 2008
ASHTABULA, Ohio — Ashtabula County 4-H volunteers and 4-H members attended Steer and Dairy Steer Tagging Dec. 6 at the fairgrounds.
Many Market Animal...
Free online course teaches Johne’s disease prevention
A new online course will help farmers learn how to prevent Johne's disease, a slow and progressive bacterial disease of the intestinal tract that affects ruminants.
New vaccine for Johne’s disease
Researchers are making progress in the fight against Johne's disease. Scientists at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine recently developed a vaccine that prevents this contagious and often fatal bacterial infection.
Online courses for beginning farmers available in 2009
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The NY Beginning Farmer Project will hold the next round of online courses designed to help plan new farm enterprises. First...
Planning workbook available
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Ohio State University's Organic Food and Farming Education and Research Program has released its Organic Whole Farm Planning Workbook. Companion volume...
Unpasteurized milk poses serious health risks without benefits
COLUMBUS -- With disease outbreaks linked to unpasteurized milk rising in the U.S., a review published in the Jan. 1, 2009 issue of Clinical...
DFA and two former execs hit with $12 million penalty
WASHINGTON -- Dairy Farmers of America, its former chief executive officer, Gary Hanman, and its former chief financial officer Gerald Bos will pay a...
Ohio agriculture state of the state: A view from the farm
SALEM, Ohio — Looking back over the past year brings one phrase to mind: “It was the best of times, it was the worst...
Trumbull SWCD wins two awards
CORTLAND, Ohio -- The Trumbull Soil and Water Conservation District received two national awards from the National Association of Conservation Districts. It is the...
