Tuesday, May 7, 2024

BELTSVILLE, Md. - Having successfully turned pieces of giant soybean stalks into charcoal briquettes, Agricultural Research Service chemical engineer Justin Barone now believes they would make good fiberboard and other wood-substitute products as well.

FENTON, Mo. - Agricultural, industrial and outdoor power equipment dealers throughout North America are now hiring, according to the North American Equipment Dealers Association.

CANFIELD, Ohio - A Mahoning County couple is a semifinalist for the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation's Young Farmers Award.

WASHINGTON - With ethanol demand at record highs and existing strong food use of corn, some experts are wondering where the extra corn will come from.

WASHINGTON - The emerald ash borer quarantine has been expanded and includes the entire states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, more than doubling the previously quarantined area which includes the entire lower peninsula of Michigan.

COLUMBUS - Most Americans agree that a move toward "energy independence" is a good thing. But is it realistic? Not if you mean 100 percent independence from foreign oil resources.

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - A Hamilton County Municipal Court recently found a Kentucky man guilty of violating Ohio's dairy licensing and labeling laws.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. and Russia inked a bilateral trade deal Nov. 10 regarding Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization.

COLUMBUS - As the saying goes, there is a first time for everything. The Ohio Soybean Council and the soybean checkoff can certainly sing to this tune as it explores, for the first time ever, export opportunities in China with the establishment of an overseas office in Shanghai.

COLUMBUS - Ten Ohio counties have been designated agricultural natural disaster areas by the USDA, making farmers in the counties eligible for low-interest emergency loans from