New BSE case confirmed in Canada
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a seven-year-old dairy cow from British Columbia. No part of the...
Quality-Quest Holsteins top fall sale
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Quality-Quest Gib Breeze displayed her show winning style as she paraded the sale ring at the Ohio Holstein Association Fall Quality...
New online resource to aid farmers and ranchers
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency has launched an online resource to aid farmers and ranchers in focusing on how to...
Decision making is topic of next online session
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Decision making related to farm succession and expansion will be the topic of the next Penn State Dairy Alliance's Lunchtime...
Global agricultural machinery market to cross $100 billion by 2015
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The global market for agricultural equipment is forecast to witness modest pace of growth with developing economies offsetting the impact of slower growing developed world.
USDA to provide funds to repair farmland damaged by natural disasters
WASHINGTON -- Farmers and ranchers will receive $77 million in Emergency Conservation Program funds to repair farmland damaged by natural disasters in 2008, according...
University expands online course offerings
PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State University, the first institution in the country to offer an academic major in organic agriculture and the first to...
California bans gestation crates, hen cages; which state is next?
SALEM, Ohio — What happens in California doesn’t necessarily stay in California — and that should have farmers nationwide waiting with their eyes wide...
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Nov. 13, 2008
MINERVA, Ohio — Minerva High School FFA held its monthly meeting Oct. 28.
They discussed the treasurer’s report and the secretary’s minutes. They also...
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of Nov. 13, 2008
WINTERSVILLE, Ohio — The Bareshoe Wranglers 4-H club met recently at the Jefferson County Vocational School.
The club discussed selling cookie dough as a fundraiser.
The...
