Friday, April 19, 2024

WASHINGTON - Retail food prices at the supermarket increased slightly in the second quarter of 2007, according to the latest

CADIZ, Ohio - If superstitions about Friday the 13th bothered Harrison County 4-H'ers and FFA'ers, it didn't show in the sale ring.

BAZETTA, Ohio - It's one classic version of the 4-H livestock project story: Girl gets market animal, girls works hard with market animal, girl cries and begs parents to spare market animal from the chopping block.

(Editor's note: This story is the second in a three-part series on sheep farming. Each story focuses on a different type of sheep production.

SALEM, Ohio — Columbus-based United Producers Inc. must pay a $96,000 fine to cut their ties to what the FBI called the largest cattle...

COLUMBUS - The Ayrshire Breeders' Association had positive reports for its members present at its annual meeting June 22 in Rockford, Ill.

COLUMBUS - Gov. Ted Strickland recently signed the biennium state budget with $4.5 million allotted to alternative fuel programs that will work to increase availability of soy biodiesel and E85 across the state.

COLUMBUS - The value of Ohio's cropland is projected to increase an average of 4.5 percent this year, according to an Ohio State University agricultural economics survey - continuing the sharp upward trend of the state's land values over the past three to five years.

YONKERS, N.Y. - With 100 million items on sale, eBay is the king of online auctions. But almost half of the eBay buyers that Consumer Reports surveyed encountered deceptions, according to a report.

COLUMBUS - What green foliage that is thriving in Ohio's moisture-starved pasturelands may not necessarily be healthy for the livestock feeding on it.