PARKER, Colo. — The Wheat Foods Council is launching How Wheat Works, an interactive, online multimedia program that delivers a farm-to-fork education on wheat, enabling a better understanding of its nutritional value.
At www.howwheatworks.com, participants of all ages can virtually grow, harvest and mill their own kernels to create their desired wheat food.
For each […]
Commercial driver’s license laws in Ohio include exemptions for farmers.
ROSELAND, N.J. — Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has launched its new Guardian vaccine Web site, www.guardianvaccine.com, which provides the latest information to help producers and veterinarians prevent and manage neonatal diarrhea, commonly known as scours, in their cattle herds.
“Neonatal diarrhea is the number one killer of beef and dairy calves less than 60 days old, […]
Editor:
When you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is stop digging.
The hole here is caused by a faulty applied pollution test EPA used to implement the CWA and the digging deeper is EPA’s resistance to correct this test, which presently ignores all the pollution caused by nitrogenous (urine and protein) […]
Editor:
The Columbiana County Health Department Cancer Detection Clinic Levy is going to appear on the ballot Nov. 3.
This .2 mill replacement levy is fully endorsed by the American Cancer Society Advisory Board of Columbiana County. We hope voters will decide to help in the mission to reduce cancer incidence and mortality.
This ballot levy […]
WOOSTER, Ohio — Dairy farmers weathering one of the worst milk price fall-outs in recent history should soon see some relief in the form of federal payments.
On Oct. 21, President Barack Obama approved legislation to provide $350 million in emergency assistance for struggling dairy farmers.
Funding
The funds are part of the $121 billion agriculture […]
Remember when the news was newsworthy?
News, of course, is anything you learn that you didn’t know before. Using that definition almost anything is technically “news” if it’s new to you.
Researchers at Georgetown University, for example, found that caterpillars can “shoot” their feces a distance of 40 times their body length. See there? News! Is […]
Don’t even blink, or everything will be gone.
That fire-red inferno of a maple tree now ablaze in the front yard will be naked.
That birch tree whose fallen foliage will have already made a golden circular skirt on the still-green grass and its bared white arms will plead for a blanket of snow.
Blinding
That silver maple will […]
If the generals and admirals within the concentric walls of the Pentagon — hardly a bastion of greenie weenies — view global warming as a “serious threat to national security,” exactly who does the American Farm Bureau Federation view as the enemy in its latest Astroturf war against climate change legislation?
For its part, the […]
Hello again, friends!
Halloween at my house usually brings a pleasant diversion from harvest, or lack of harvest as the case may be.
The kids always start planning their Halloween alter-egos several weeks in advance. Of course, there is some parental guidance. “No, you can not be a belly dancer” and “No, you can not use […]
