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Now is the ideal time to prepare female meat goats for kidding
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Since kidding season for meat goat females is just around the corner, now is the perfect time for producers to begin...
Salt exposure may injure plants
URBANA, Ill. -- Salt causes damage to plants in yards and along driveways in several ways, said University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator...
New BSE case confirmed in Canada
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a seven-year-old dairy cow from British Columbia. No part of the...
Quality-Quest Holsteins top fall sale
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Quality-Quest Gib Breeze displayed her show winning style as she paraded the sale ring at the Ohio Holstein Association Fall Quality...
New online resource to aid farmers and ranchers
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency has launched an online resource to aid farmers and ranchers in focusing on how to...
Decision making is topic of next online session
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Decision making related to farm succession and expansion will be the topic of the next Penn State Dairy Alliance's Lunchtime...
Global agricultural machinery market to cross $100 billion by 2015
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The global market for agricultural equipment is forecast to witness modest pace of growth with developing economies offsetting the impact of slower growing developed world.
USDA to provide funds to repair farmland damaged by natural disasters
WASHINGTON -- Farmers and ranchers will receive $77 million in Emergency Conservation Program funds to repair farmland damaged by natural disasters in 2008, according...
University expands online course offerings
PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State University, the first institution in the country to offer an academic major in organic agriculture and the first to...
