HARRISBURG, Pa. — The 50th annual Pennsylvania State 4-H Horse Show was held Oct. 23-25 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pa.
Youth from 64 counties qualified for this year’s show. There were 896 youth with 999 horses entered in 48 performance and 96 production classes.
Celebrate
This year’s show included […]
URBANA, Ill. –Did you breathe a sigh of relief when the Dow Jones Industrial average hit 10,000 last month? How were you feeling over the past two years as the market bounced up and down?
But more important than how you felt is what you did, according to Karen Chan, Consumer and Family Economics educator […]
MANHATTAN, Kan. — The successful distance education program SowBridge begins its third year in January 2010.
The program is intended for people involved in managing or caring for boars, sows, and/or their litters, including operation owners, employees, technicians, managers and technical service providers.
SowBridge is designed to improve the understanding and application of various tools […]
COLUMBUS — A first-of-its-kind Ohio State University analysis is helping planners in Knox County strengthen the area’s local food system. The project report, “Planting the Seeds of Sustainable Economic Development: Knox County’s Local Food System,” is available to download at http://sri.osu.edu/pdf/Knox_County_Assessment_Summary-200908.pdf.
Detailed assessment
The report provides a detailed assessment of Knox County’s food and farming system, […]
WOOSTER, Ohio — There was a large crowd in attendance for the Ohio Fall Quality Sale and the Diamond Oak Dispersal held Oct. 31 at the Wayne County Fairgrounds, Wooster.
The economic difficulties that dairy producers are currently facing did not prevent the dairymen from demonstrating their appreciation for good registered Holsteins and outstanding genetics. […]
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — More than 6,279 acres from 37 farms will be preserved through the Ohio’s Agricultural Easement Purchase Program, using the first of four installments from the renewed Clean Ohio Fund.
This year, the Ohio Farmland Preservation Advisory Board reviewed 205 applications from 40 counties competing for the limited money available through the Clean […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. dairy industry is not set up to accommodate a global market and it must take steps to address increasing globalization, speakers concluded at the joint annual meeting of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board, the National Milk Producers Federation and the United Dairy Industry Association.
Speaking before nearly 1,000 dairy […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Sand bedding is very popular with many dairy producers — until it comes to handling sand-laden manure. Sand is very comfortable for cows to lie on in well designed and managed freestalls. But sand-laden manure is difficult to handle and abrasive to concrete and manure handling equipment.
Several options
There are several […]
COLUMBUS — The 2009 Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium will once again hit the road for this annual shepherd’s event. This year’s Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium will be held Dec. 12 at the Ohio Department of Agriculture Bromfield Building, 8995 E. Main St., Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
The primary focus of the 2009 Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium will be health management […]
Land-use effects more than where people live, it is also impacting temperature.
