Letter: Fats, like that in whole milk, are good for you
Letter writer says the dietary guidelines are incorrect, and that food with some fat in it is good for you, citing author Nina Teicholz.
Dairymen need emergency $20/hundredweight price floor
Pa. dairyman says dairy farmers need an emergency $20 per hundredweight floor price under all milk used to manufacture dairy products, and a long-term remedy for the industry's survival.
For sale to the highest campaign contributors: West Virginia private property rights
The West Virginia Senate and House leadership is offering citizen's property rights for sale to the natural gas industry.
Opinion: Kasich values businesses over farms
Letter writer says the Kasich administration has given tax benefits to businesses, while farmers have been made to pay more.
Reader: NEXUS needs to pay fees
All along, the NEXUS pipeline route county auditors have been alerted to the fact that NEXUS has not paid its easement conveyance fees.
Pa. reader questions Clean & Green assessments
Reader questions why Washington County commissioners won’t vote to lower the rates on taxing the Clean & Green parcels for farmers.
Letter to the editor: Open letter to Senators Portman and Brown
A Farm and Dairy reader writes an open letter to Senators Portman and brown about allowing Government agencies to bully animal owners in Ohio
God bless the USA
Letter to Farm and Dairy Editor Susan Crowell from Fred J. Double.
Letter writer: Water quality trading plans allow pollution to continue
Letter writer says water quality trading amounts to pollution trading.
Letter: Ethanol has helped reverse corn market surplus
The outlook for row crop agriculture is not pretty, but imagine how much worse things would be if farmers hadn’t had the vision 25 years ago to build the ethanol industry, says renewable fuel proponent.
