Look it up: Latest edition of ag thesaurus online
The USDA National Agricultural Library has published 2008 editions of its National Agricultural Library Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary of Agricultural Terms in both Spanish and English.
Geauga County: Still no answers in steer dispute
The stepsisters who used their 4-H steer calves as walking billboards to protest the way the Geauga County fair board is handling the discovery of drugs in last year’s champion still don’t know if they’ll be allowed to participate in the 2008 fair.
Del Muls grant first farm easement in Ashtabula Co.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture recently accepted its first permanent agricultural easement donation in Ashtabula County from landowners Henry and Louise Del Mul.
Pa. couple earns Conservation Farm of the Year
WARREN, Pa. — Aggravation Acres, owned and operated by Vicki and Rich Gilkinson, was named as the Conservation Farm of the Year recently at...
Program focuses on grass-fed products
A new grass-fed beef and lamb initiative in Ohio is reaching out to both sides of the market.
Don’t take our technology: Farmers talk to legislators
TOWNVILLE, Pa. — The brisk, single-digit temperatures of the winter morning didn’t deter farmers, legislators or the media from gathering at Apple Shamrock Farm...
Orchard pruning requires that human touch
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — Anybody who believes that apple or other orchard-fruit growing is a seasonal job with a winter vacation would be surprised...
The subscription king retires
SALEM, Ohio — Forty-five years ago, Wayne Hammond walked into the Farm and Dairy office and made an offer we couldn’t refuse: Let me...
Program focuses on grass-fed products
SALEM, Ohio — A new grass-fed beef and lamb initiative in Ohio is reaching out to both sides of the market.
The program, which benefits...
Ohioan goes national with outfit made of wool
Dianne Galloway of Sandusky, Ohio, was named the 2008 national Make It With Wool adult winner, as the contest celebrated its 60th birthday at the 2008 convention of the American Sheep Industry Association and National Lamb Feeders Association in Las Vegas, Nev., Jan 26.
