FFA youth finish ‘Operation Payback’
RIPLEY, Ohio — The Midwestern United States flooding of 1993 returned in 2008 and many agricultural communities are experiencing the challenges of cleaning up...
New system will improve water filtration
KEASBEY, N.J. -- Global Ecology Corporation has filed an application to patent its Mobile PureWater System. This transportable system filters and purifies up to...
USDA increases limits for direct loans
WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has put into place a new farm bill provision, increasing the limits on loans to $300,000 — up...
Ohioan accepts the West Point challenge
(Editor's note: Skipping class is not an option for Weston Boose, a college freshman. Neither is not making his bed before he leaves the...
Milkweed strikes back against caterpillars
ITHACA, N.Y. — The adage that your enemies know your weaknesses best is especially true in the case of plants and predators that have...
Oil prices, weak dollar driving up food and commodity prices
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Commodity prices — and resulting food prices — are rising sharply, driven by a combination of factors that include high oil prices spurring biofuels growth, a weak dollar and world production and consumption trends, according to an analysis by Purdue University agricultural economists.
Plow day
CORTLAND, Ohio — The Antique Tractor Club of Trumbull County had a plow day recently at the home of Charlie and Kathy Gaylog of...
Farm employment: It’s about the people, not just the cows
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- There are aspects of farming that producers can't control, such as grain markets, input costs and the weather, but employee...
World ‘avoided deforestation’ program would reduce global carbon emissions
COLUMBUS — Wealthy nations willing to collectively spend about $1 billion annually could prevent the emission of roughly half a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next 25 years, new research suggests.
Reclaimed wastewater used for irrigation in Florida’s citrus orchards
Cities find new uses for treated water in citrus crop irrigation, navel oranges growing in Florida.
