Tuesday, April 30, 2024

SALEM, Ohio - The cause of a tire explosion last month on a Trumbull County dairy farm is still unknown, however more details are available.

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - The Ohio Department of Agriculture will expand its emerald ash borer quarantine to control the ash tree-killing insect.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Two Pennsylvania eminent domain bills signed May 4 by Gov. Edward Rendell will place stricter limits on local governments from seizing private property.

MANHATTAN, Kan. - Corn producers have a lot to consider when it comes to rootworm management, said Randy Higgins, field crop entomology specialist with

WASHINGTON - The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will implement new maximum residue limits for veterinary drugs in food, including pork and pork products May 29.

PITTSBURGH - Edwin R. Copeland of Hanoverton, Ohio, (Station Millport 2 NW) will be honored posthumously with the National Weather Service Forecast Office's Edward H.

BALTIMORE - Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health measured levels of an antibacterial hand soap ingredient, triclocarban, as it passed through a wastewater treatment facility.

URBANA, Ill. - Strip-till and no-till tillage systems have lower fuel use and lower costs than typical-till and heavy-till systems.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 established the 15-member National Organic Standards Board appointed by the U.

State College, Pa. - Food safety and the lack of effective natural alternatives influenced the recommendations of the National Organic Standards Board at its April meeting in State College, Pa.