Monthly Archives: July 2010
Answering the hard questions now will help when disaster occurs
As farmers, we know the cows must be milked rain or shine, hot or cold, sick or not, but what do you do when...
Lesson learned during relaxing weekend get-away: Never say never
Sometimes, it is hard to imagine a different life, the possibility of the sun shining just as brightly in an entirely new place. No...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack talks renewable energy, farm issues in Wooster, Ohio
Agriculture secretary, congressman review projects at OSU-Wooster Campus.
Ohioan runner-up in International Auctioneer Championship
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Andy White of Real Estate Showcase Auction Co., Ashland, Ohio, was first runner-up in the men's division of the 2010 International...
Research shows eggs from pastured chickens may be more nutritious
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A study conducted by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has shown that eggs produced by chickens allowed to forage in pastures are higher in some beneficial nutrients.
Thought-controlled prosthetic limb being tested
LAUREL, Md. -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract for up to $34.5 million to the Johns Hopkins University Applied...
Ford pioneers use of soy oil in rubber car parts
DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Company’s biomaterial researchers have engineered a patent-pending formula to use renewable soy oil to improve rubber car parts and...
Some Pa. counties looking to zoning to provide controls over gas drilling
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — With Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale-gas epoch still in its infancy, some experts doubt we have seen one-tenth of what is...
Low milk prices may spur more consolidation of Pa. dairy farms
the dairy industry is still huge and thriving in the Keystone State
War time spent in communications
I'll continue the story of my Korean experience, and try to work in some references to Rusty Iron, although rust was just as thoroughly...
