New farm finances webinar online
Webinar offers valuable financial tips and information for beginner farmers.
Is the cattle market too cautious?
The beef industry was stung by two negative events in the past two months that have left market traders uncertain about their longer term impacts.
Local collection of state taxes rises in Marcellus Shale counties
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Natural-gas development appears to be having a positive effect on the local collection of state taxes in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale...
Youth animal care program provides Beef Quality Assurance
MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Beef industry youth have the opportunity to become certified in Beef Quality Assurance online at no cost. The Beef Cattle Institute...
Wind farm impact studied
GREENBELT, Md. -- A Texas region containing four of the world's largest wind farms showed an increase in land surface temperature over nine years...
A roundup of FFA news for the week of May 10, 2012:
PLYMOUTH, Ohio -- The May Plymouth FFA meeting will be May 14 at 6 p.m. at the Hound Dog Hop. The club will discuss...
Ohio man brings ‘hope chicks’ to Kenya, Africa
If you give a man an egg, he eats. If you give him an incubator and a hatchery, he hatches eggs. Those chicks grow, and with them the possibility of elevating Kenya, Africa, out of poverty.
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of May 10, 2012:
BURTON, Ohio -- The Breeders and Feeders 4-H group met and divided into groups. Depending on species each group did something different.The youth showing...
EPA drafts program for using diesel fuel during fracking
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a draft underground injection control program permitting guidance for class II wells that use diesel...
Land O’Lakes and Eggland’s Best announce joint venture
ARDEN HILLS, Minn. and JEFFERSONVILLE, Pa. — Land O’Lakes, Inc., and Eggland’s Best, Inc., announced recently the creation of a new branded, specialty egg...
