A roundup of FFA news for Aug. 28, 2008
ALBANY, Ohio — The Alexander FFA chapter recently held its summer meeting and cookout at Ethan Sayers’ house. Thirty-two members and three guests showed...
Ag Progress Days: Vegetable oil looks like tractor fuel
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. -- The future looks rosy for a blue tractor that's pulled away from the diesel fuel pump in favor of a...
Experts: Spend gas well money wisely
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. -- "Are there too many zeroes behind that number?"It's a question Penn State Cooperative Extension educator Robin Kuleck stopped asking --...
Expo explores the benefits of grazing
Shamrock Vale Farms in Kensington, Ohio, is one of the oldest and most successful grazing operations in the Buckeye State. Earl and Dan McKarns, a father-son team, raise about 150 registered Angus seedstock cow-calf pairs in a total forage system. On Aug. 19, the McKarns family opened the farm to nearly 300 visitors who wanted to learn more about raising grass-based cattle.
Program will build ag leadership skills
The name of a new program in Carroll, Harrison, Jefferson and Tuscarawas counties gives a perfect description of its basic foundation -- Leadership Education and Development.
Tiny invasive snail impacts and alters ecology of Great Lakes
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Long a problem in the western U.S., the New Zealand mud snail currently inhabits four of the five Great Lakes...
More pork produced, less available
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — More pork is being produced in the U.S. but less is available for U.S. consumers, said a Purdue University Extension...
CLA gets approval as food additive
WASHINGTON --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found July 24 that the food additive conjugated linoleic acid, known as CLA, is "generally regarded as...
Rita and Pinky: Pink Farmall stands for something
WARREN, Ohio — Get over it, Rita Kibler says.Get over the fact that she’s a female tractor puller, one who frequently tops the competition,...
Ag Progress Days 2008 in photos
See our collection of photographs taken at the 2008 Ag Progress Days.
