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.
Farm and Dairy writers win ag journalism honors
Hog prices are disappointing this year
URBANA, Ill. - Hog prices have lost their luster, according to a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist.
Meat packers will be fined millions
BILLINGS, Mont. - Jurors in a federal class action trial reached a unanimous verdict April 12 against three of the nation's largest multinational meat packers for ignoring incorrect boxed-beef price reports issued by the USDA during a six-week period in the spring of 2001.
Organic food watchdog sues USDA
CORNUCOPIA, Wis. - The Cornucopia Institutehas filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding the USDA provide public records sought through several Freedom of Information Act requests.
Trying to get a handle on weeds
URBANA, Ill. - Herbicides are designed to selectively kill weeds in crops. At the same time, it is difficult for most herbicides to selectively control weeds that are closely related to certain major crops, such as grass weeds in corn and wheat and broadleaf weeds in soybeans and cotton.
Viktories — This artist has had many in 100 years
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - You may not recognize his name, but almost every adult living in America has driven, used, worn, played with, collected or admired something created by
China plans to resume imports of U.S. beef
SALEM, Ohio - U.S. beef will be back in business in China as soon as some technical details are worked out, according to U.
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.