Farm and Dairy was taken on a missionary trip to Honduras, Central America, in August. Pictured are Servando Guevara (left) and Jeff Redmond, both of Beaver County, Pa., who helped construct a kitchen to help feed about 250 children per day in the rural town of Lepaterique.
Kenny Wise of Jeromesville, Ohio, took Farm and Dairy along to the Bastogne Belgium’s Public Square on the 65th anniversary of D-day in Europe. The tour included Paris; Utah Beach; Omaha Beach; Reims, France; Belgium; Luxembourg, Germany; Hitler’s “Eagle Nest” at Berchtesgaden; Kehlstein Mountain; Austria; U.S. military cemeteries and the Dachau Concentration Camp at Munich, […]
Rod Clovis, his fiancee Willie Elliott and granddaughter Abigale Clovis, all of Wadestown, W.Va., took Farm and Dairy along when they visited his grandchildren, Jessica and Zach, who live in Anchorage, Alaska. Zach is shielding his eyes from the 18-hour-a-day summer sun.
COLUMBUS — The U.S. dairy industry needs to shed an additional 200,000 head of cattle to return to what an Ohio State University Extension dairy economist refers to as a “state of normalcy” where production is more in balance with domestic demand.
WASHINGTON –The U.S. is using less water than during the peak years of 1975 and 1980, according to water use estimates for 2005.
Despite a 30 percent population increase during the past 25 years, overall water use has remained fairly stable, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Anne […]
COLUMBUS — In a unanimous decision, a panel of the Ohio Elections Commission found probable cause that radio advertising purchased by Washington, D.C.-based Food and Water Watch against Issue 2 contains false or misleading information and referred the case for a hearing before the full commission.
Probable cause hearing
The Commission panel, in a probable cause […]
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Tallgrass Beef, a market leader in branded grass-fed beef production, will use DNA TraceBack from IdentiGEN to provide a reliable and accurate traceability system so that every cut of Tallgrass beef can be traced back to the family farm where the animals were raised.
IdentiGEN’s DNA TraceBack, which has earned the U.S. […]
ST. LOUIS — Monsanto Company said it is opening its first research center in China, further demonstrating its commitment to forming technology collaborations in the country.
Strengthen ties
The Monsanto Biotechnology Research Center in Zhongguancun, Beijing, will strengthen the company’s ties with Chinese research institutions in plant biotechnology and genomics.
The new research center is an […]
Our most basic need is food — we can’t alive without it — and we want to spend less money to buy it.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue University Beef Team has launched a new Web site designed to be an information source for beef producers from Indiana and throughout the Midwest.
Site
The Beef Center, www.thebeefcenter.com, hosts a wide range of production beef information in a variety of formats.
Producers can find Extension fact sheets, YouTube videos, […]
