Current issues addressed at meat goat symposium at Wilmington College
WILMINGTON, Ohio - The Professional Meat Goat Symposium will provide educational information on the most current topics of interest for commercial and seed stock producers of meat goats.
Hillsdale FFA banquet celebrates its litany of chapter, personal awards
JEROMESVILLE, Ohio - The Hillsdale FFA held its annual parent-member banquet April 14 at Hillsdale High School.
Latest tests confirm melamine levels in feed not dangerous to consumers
WASHINGTON - Testing confirms that meat from swine fed rations supplemented with pet food scraps containing melamine and related compounds is safe for human consumption, prompting the U.
Northwestern FFA applauds members
WEST SALEM, Ohio - Fourteen members of the Northwestern-Wayne FFA chapter will receive State Degrees at Ohio's annual state convention.
Cell phones are not killing bees
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fact: Commercial migratory beekeepers in North America are suffering significant hive losses for a variety of reasons.
Deciding when to harvest steer is part science, part art and plain old luck
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - How do you determine when to harvest steers that have been on feed? That's a tough question to answer with a real specific guideline, according to Eldon Cole, University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist located in Mount Vernon.
Ethanol byproduct makes pigs porky
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Pork producers who expect to bring home the bacon by feeding their herds an ethanol byproduct could wind up producing bacon consumers don't want to bring home.
Feed price impact already being felt
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The way for the brood cow sector of the beef industry to recover from high feed prices is to reduce the size of the cow herd, thereby reducing the level of beef production by 2009, said a
New fungicide also fights head scab
WOOSTER, Ohio - A new fungicide has been introduced this season to help Ohio wheat growers in their fight against diseases.
Time is ripe for powdery mildew
WOOSTER, Ohio - With Ohio's wheat crop under way and performing well despite frost damage concerns, now is the time for growers to begin scouting for foliar diseases, especially on susceptible varieties.