Milk board maintains current dairy price
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Farm Bureau (PFB) commended the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board (PMMB) for its decision to maintain the current $2.15 over-order...
Countryside Conservancy offers course for small farm owners
PENINSULA, Ohio -- Countryside Conservancy will offer the self-assessment short course Exploring the Small Farm Dream at Boston Store Visitor Center in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
Making the best binocular choice
Now that spring migration is over, many birders can be broken into two groups -- those who love their binoculars and those who don't....
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of June 23, 2011:
BURTON, Ohio -- The Thompson Ledge Dairymen 4-H club met June 12 for its monthly meeting. The club discussed Skillathon and weeding Thompson Square...
Erie County man charged in black bear killing
ERIE, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Game Commission officials recently announced Kevin Michael Hicks, 40, of Little Creek Road in Erie, was charged with unlawfully...
Marcellus Shale boom adds less jobs than originally forecasted
Industry has yielded job growth but impacts are overstated, according to the Keystone Research Center.
Plans in motion for Ohio Sheep Day
LISBON, Ohio — The 2011 Ohio Sheep Day is scheduled for July 16. It will be held at Blue Heron Farm, home farm of...
Kasich signs Ohio’s ‘animals at large’ legislation
COLUMBUS — A bill that protects farmers from criminal lawsuits over farm animals getting loose beyond the farmer's control was signed into law June...
Glyphosate resistant weeds a growing problem
DES MOINES, Iowa -- With glyphosate-resistant weeds already an issue in many corn belt states and throughout the South this growing season, experts at...
Manna food co-op heading to Ohio Supreme Court
LAGRANGE, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court is the next stop for a Lorain County family that claims their constitutional rights were violated when their home and local food co-op was raided in December 2008.
