Twin foals born on West Point farm
SALEM, Ohio - When Melinda Virden went to the pasture to check on a pregnant mare April 14, she found something that happens in just one of every 10,000 equestrian pregnancies - twins.
USDA presents timeline for National Animal Identification System
SALEM, Ohio - By 2009, the USDA hopes to have all U.S. livestock premises registered and all livestock under 1 year old identified through a voluntary
Conserving a legacy
BARNESVILLE, Ohio - Don Guindon stomps his boots, hangs his Select Sires hat on a peg, rolls up the sleeves on his flannel shirt and comes in for lunch.
Tire mechanic killed in explosion at Ohio farm
SALEM, Ohio - A tractor tire exploded last week at a Trumbull County dairy farm, killing the mechanic.
Drought watch is bad timing for farmers
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - You have to go back to the early 1980s to find a March as dry as this one in Pennsylvania.
Lowmiller farm has top herd
SALEM, Ohio -
Ease stress during calving season
MANHATTAN, Kan. - Anyone who has been around a cow-calf operation knows, there is nothing like calving season - both for the annual wonder of new life, but also for the difficulties it can bring.
Farmers shift from corn to soybeans
COLUMBUS - High costs associated with fuel and nitrogen fertilizer and the alleviation of fears of a soybean rust epidemic are driving U.
Holstein tops Daffodil sale at $3,350
CARROLLTON, Ohio - Springway Durham Tara, consigned by William Burkhart Jr. of Magnolia, topped this year's Daffodil Dairy Sale March 28 at the Carroll County Fairgrounds.
If you can, get in fields early
COLUMBUS - Getting ready to plant corn? Just remember the trials and tribulations of establishing last season's crop.