Stewart’s wilt may hit Ohio in 2007
COLUMBUS - Cornfields throughout southern Ohio might be at risk this growing season for Stewart's bacterial wilt and leaf blight - a corn disease caused by a bacterium carried and spread by adult flea beetles.
Submit farm art, win cash at exhibit
PENINSULA, Ohio - Artists in visual media are invited to submit entries for the gallery show Farm Art - From Plate to Palette.
Summer internship available
SALEM, Ohio - Farm and Dairy is accepting resumes for its paid summer editorial internship. The intern will work with the news department and work in the Salem, Ohio, office.
Postal system: Bring my mail before you get another raise
Editor: Our postal system is again asking for another raise. This isn't right. Why should they get a raise when ?the system' is not doing its job? Within the past year, I know of three pieces of information-sensitive mail that I never received.
Injunction limits March alfalfa planting
ST. LOUIS - Monsanto Company said recently it is disappointed that a preliminary injunction will affect the plans of many farmers who want to use Roundup Ready alfalfa in their forage operations.
‘Pants in action’: Buyers love Arborwear clothing
NEWBURY, Ohio - Arborwear founder Paul Taylor may think he's not designing his clothing to be a fashion statement, but he has developed a loyal and vocal following.
Salatin to share insight at seminar in Pittsfield, Pa.
YOUNGSVILLE, Pa. - Join Joel Salatin, nationally-known sustainable agriculture speaker, for a seminar March 24 at the 4-H center at the Warren County Fairgrounds in Pittsfield, Pa.
Simon earns conservation accolades
WAVERLY, W.Va. - Little Kanawha Resource Conservation and Development Coordinator Kurt Simon was recently named National Coordinator of the Year by the National Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils.
By the seat of his pants
NEWBURY, Ohio - Paul Taylor has found his niche. It's in his pants. Founder and self-proclaimed "Head Monkey" of Arborwear, Taylor, 37, leads a staff of seven to imagine, research, design, test and market a fairly new line of outdoor clothing best known for its trousers.
Fit to win
COLUMBUS - Every weekend, hundreds of youth compete for the top spots in Ohio's cattle shows. They go to showgrounds with everything from iPods to pink show sticks, each competitor hoping this show will be the one.
