Pennsylvania Soybean Board offers grants for research proposals
HARRISBURG, PA. -- The Pennsylvania Soybean Board is currently accepting grant applications for projects designed to improve the efficiency and profitability of Pennsylvania's soybean...
Walnut Twig Beetle recently discovered in Ohio
The Walnut Twig Beetle, a carrier of a fungus that causes Thousand Cankers Disease, has made its way into Ohio.
Surgeons implant brain ‘pacemaker’
BALTIMORE -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine in November surgically implanted a pacemaker-like device into the brain of a patient in the early stages...
Moving livestock from state to state? Here’s what you need to know about animal...
USDA issues final rule for animal disease traceability in interstate travel.
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
We wanted your versions of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" and you didn't disappoint! Here's your poems.
Encore presentation shares fond farm memories
(Author’s note: This is an “encore” presentation of this column, which was first published in 2002.)
Christmas on the western Pennsylvania farm where I grew...
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of Dec. 20, 2012:
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. -- The Ridge Runners 4-H club met at the Roberts Ridge Volunteer Fire Department Dec. 15 for its annual pizza/Christmas party and...
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Dec. 20, 2012:
MILLERSBURG, Ohio -- West Holmes FFA held its annual meeting Dec. 10 at the high school. In new business, members voted to hold officer...
America has avoided driving off the fiscal cliff in the past
Editor:We are reminded several times daily that a fiscal cliff looms threateningly in our future. There are two opposing views about the way to...
U.S. meat exporters still optimistic
WASHINGTON -- With exports of both U.S. beef and U.S. pork to South Korea being lower than in 2011, some observers may question whether...
