Thursday, April 25, 2024

WOOSTER, Ohio - Under laboratory conditions, sawdust bedding not only yielded higher counts of E. coli O157:H7 than sand bedding; it also harbored the pathogen longer.

HARTVILLE, Ohio - Three Stark County dairies attained "elite" status from the Ohio DHI Cooperative for achieving production levels in the state's top 5 percent.

MASSILLON, Ohio - This spring will be the first in more than 75 years that the Horner family near Massillon isn't tending to a strawberry crop.

SALEM, Ohio - Ohio's largest proposed dairy, a 4,500-cow operation, is set to begin construction in western Ohio within the next two months.

For decades, both government and agriculture have assumed air pollution laws do not apply to livestock and poultry farms.

SALEM - Farm and Dairy is looking for freelance farm writers to cover broad-based ag assignments and is also looking for contributing writers to cover farm meetings or banquets in their home county.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Increased ethanol processing capacity in the upper Midwest has led to greater supplies of dry milling co-products.

WASHINGTON - According to The Renewable Fuels Association, U.S. fuel ethanol use hit an all-time monthly high in January of 320 million gallons. The previous high of 312 million gallons was set in December of 2004.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Agricultural leaders from five states honored five family farm operations from Pennsylvania and one from Maryland with 2005 Mid-Atlantic Master Farmer Awards.

SALEM, Ohio - Farm and Dairy reporter Kristy Hebert received honors in the 2005