Spice up your food and lose weight
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Spicing up your daily diet with some red pepper can curb appetite, especially for those who don't normally eat the...
Marestail control essential for plentiful harvest
COLUMBUS — No-till practices save soil and offer many other benefits, but soybean producers know there’s at least one big disadvantage: Not tilling gives...
Entomologist: New seed corn technology comes with risks
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Bags of corn seed that mix genetically modified hybrids with and without Bt toxins that kill insects provide farmers easier...
Brown crowned 2011 dairy princess
SALEM, Ohio — Mary Jo Brown, of Salineville, was crowned 2011 Columbiana County Dairy Princess during the Columbiana Buckeye Dairy Boosters’ spring banquet April...
LETTER: HSUS takes over Livestock Care Standards Board
Editor:So it’s happened. The radical vegan, anti-consumer Humane Society of the United States has successfully taken over the voter-created Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board...
College of Wooster plays role in crop research
WOOSTER, Ohio — A national effort to protect one of the America’s most-valued food crops will include two scientists from The College of Wooster.
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Great Lakes fiber show offers tips and tools
WOOSTER, Ohio — Do you want to learn to create unique yarn for a special project; fine tune your knitting skills; learn to tat...
GIPSA files complaint against Park Farms for late payments to producers
CANTON, Ohio — A complaint by USDA’s GIPSA (Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration) has been filed against Park Farms in Canton, Ohio.Complaint The...
State-inspected meat processors soon will welcome interstate sales
Farm bill provision to allow interstate marketing of state-inspected meat is becoming a reality.
Do we romanticize the Amish?
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The clip clopping of horse hooves on a country lane. Barefoot children in straw hats and bonnets. Black buggies, barn...
