USDA expands emerald ash borer quarantine to Ohio, Illinois and Indiana
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.
Plugging renewable energy
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.
Llama love, donkey delight and horse heaven
CUMBERLAND, Ohio - When you ask Gary Conrad what he does for a living, he'll tell you he's a single father of 200.
Egg farm may have permits yanked
SALEM, Ohio - When Ohio Fresh Eggs operators bought the facilities from the now-defunct Buckeye Egg Farm, they promised to be good, conscientious neighbors who would make the farm an asset to the community.
Bloomin’ and boomin’: Pa. ranked seventh in ’05 floriculture crops sales
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania ranked seventh nationally in wholesale sales of floriculture crops in 2005 with a wholesale value of sales by commercial flower and foliage producers that totaled $174.
Bucyrus pork producer earns national award for environmental stewardship
BUCYRUS, Ohio - The National Pork Checkoff Board has selected
Pa. Farm Bureau calls for landowner liability protection
HERSHEY, Pa. - Pennsylvania Farm Bureau members are calling for a legislative solution to strengthen landowner liability rights and recognize that a landowner is not liable for a hunter's actions simply because the landowner allowed the hunter to hunt on his land.
Pa. standardbred horse sale sets record
HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Standardbred horse sale at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center set a new record earlier this month, selling 2,074 horses for $66.
Post-industrial developer’s idea comes to fruition
WOOSTER, Ohio - Cleveland brownfield developer Todd Davis had a problem.
Ready to move dirt at ethanol plant
MAUMEE, Ohio - Marathon Oil Corporation and The Andersons Inc. say they will immediately begin construction of an ethanol plant located in Greenville, Ohio.