Pa. FFA members can win stipend to attend national institute
MOUNTVILLE, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Young Farmers Association is offering a stipend for qualified FFA students to attend the National Young Farmer Educational Association (NYFEA) Institute to be held in Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 7-10.
Penn State webinars explore business opportunities in Marcellus Shale
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A series of web-based seminars aimed at helping local businesses prosper from natural-gas drilling and development will be offered this fall by Penn State Extension's Marcellus Educational Consortium.
So you want to start a vineyard …
Reality check: N.Y. numbers show it takes about $18,000 per acre to establish a vineyard.
Can you spare a bale?
Hay assistance is necessary in order for Texas cattlemen to survive.
Online classes for beginning farmers now open for enrollment
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Northeast Beginning Farmer Project will offer seven online courses this fall, including four new topics, to help you continue your farming education.
A ride back in time is needed to know how a skill from past...
A Chagrin Falls man makes his living the old fashioned way; as a blacksmith.
Scarecrow contest entries will be displayed along Ohio River
VEVAY, Ind. -- The convention and visitor bureaus in Jefferson, Ohio and Switzerland counties are teaming up to provide a multi-county scarecrow contest this fall.
UT Southwestern Medical Center: Good proteins boost immune response
DALLAS -- A person's ability to battle viruses at the cellular level remarkably resembles the way deadly infectious agents called prions misfold and cluster native proteins to cause disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.
Genetic evidence clears Ben Franklin of introducing invasive tree species to U.S.
HOUSTON -- The DNA evidence is in, and Ben Franklin didn't do it. Genetic tests on more than 1,000 Chinese tallow trees from the U.S. and China show the famed U.S. statesman did not import the tallow trees that are overrunning thousands of acres of U.S. coastal prairie from Florida to East Texas.
Portage County Fair results
Check out the sale results from this year's Portage County Fair.
