Wednesday, April 24, 2024

MERCER, Pa. - Three new unofficial records. One record tied. That's how buyers supported Mercer County 4-H youth at the annual Mercer County 4-H Roundup livestock sale Aug.

JEFFERSON, Ohio - When the Ashtabula County Fair junior livestock sale ended Aug. 10, half of its records had crumbled.

BUTLER, Pa. - The sound of thunder booming over the Butler Farm Show Aug. 9 matched the sound of records being shattered during the junior livestock sale.

WOOSTER, Ohio - Anyone who's raised animals knows it doesn't take much to go from a single critter to a backyard full of pens and water buckets and feed bags.

SALEM, Ohio - It all started with some pigs. In 2005, six 4-H'ers from Ohio, Pennsylvania and Hancock County in West Virginia put their pigs on the auction block at the Hancock County Oldtime Fair.

BURBANK, Ohio - Charis Thorsell sinks into a wicker rocker on her parents' wraparound porch, tucking her guitar with the dolphins on it under her elbow.

BURBANK, Ohio - As a breeder, Denny Thorsell wanted to showcase his stock. And that showcase he started five years ago, called

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and incoming Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee each celebrated their first Ohio State Fair Sale of Champions Aug.

LODI, Ohio - Seventeen-year-old Eric Christen saw the black clouds moving in when he reported to the main barn for evening milking.

Editor: Mr. Guebert, you have been sucker punched. The July 26 issue of Farm and Dairy contained an opinion column by Alan Guebert titled "Dairy farmers take co-op to task.