Saturday, May 18, 2024

BOSTON - Scientists are reporting an advance toward turning corn plants into natural factories for producing gelatin to replace animal-sourced gelatin widely used by the pharmaceutical industry for manufacturing capsules and tablets.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - The 10 producers who registered the most Angus beef cattle in the state of Ohio recorded a total of 2,205 Angus with the

The problem. In 2006, Stark County farmer Jerry Dickerhoof planted corn in a field at the intersection of Kenmore Street and Parks Avenue.

MARIETTA, Ohio - For as long as Neil Lane can remember, he never wanted to do anything except farm. He loves the open space, the fresh air, the hard work.

AKRON - "Hmm, what was that?" Three judges raise plastic spoons to their mouths, pressing their lips together and slurping the amber liquid they've doled out like gold.

SALEM, Ohio - Farmers and farm supporters may soon get a new way to show their enthusiasm for Ohio's No.

FOMBELL, Pa. - Numbers float through Brant Cooper's mind. Forty-two, the number of years he's lived, and 22, the number of years he's been married to the girl he met at the Big Knob Fair.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - For years, South Carolina peach growers have planted grafted trees, the union of fruit wood to rootstock that is resistant to soilborne diseases and nematodes.

WOOSTER, Ohio - Many beef producers struggle with priorities when it comes to genetic selection. One part of them knows the market rewards a focus on the end product.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Twelve cattle on a southern Indiana farm died of a condition called grain overload, which caused acute rumen acidosis, according preliminary findings of Purdue University veterinarians.