Wednesday, May 1, 2024

GREELEY, Colo. - The House Committee on Agriculture's Web site has launched a Web-based farm bill feedback form.

CARROLLTON, Ohio - Frank and Jody Hezoucky started raising alpacas with one simple goal in mind - they wanted to build a business successful enough that one of them could stay home with their two young sons.

SALEM, Ohio - In Ray Gruber's 85 years growing juice grapes, he's never needed his priest to bless the vineyard.

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.