Farms need to connect with consumers
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, N.Y. - Agriculture needs to tap into consumer food trends to stay in touch with tomorrow's market demands.
Farmers question milk price volatility
SALEM, Ohio - Ohio and New York farmers visited the Chicago Mercantile Exchange April 18 and demanded greater transparency into who is trading in the market and how it's affecting dairy prices.
Small Farm and Rural Living Expo – New expo zeroes in on small farmers
SALEM, Ohio - Fifteen years ago, interest began to wane in a Pennsylvania expo catering to small farmers.
DFA reports financial results for 2004
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Dairy Farmers of America, Inc., the nation's largest farmer-owned dairy cooperative, has reported financial results for 2004.
Don’t neglect alfalfa – weevil won’t
COLUMBUS - Warmer weather in early April pushed many farmers to plant corn and soybeans. In their haste, they risk neglecting vulnerable alfalfa crops, said Extension entomologists from Purdue and Ohio State universities.
Expert: U.S. commitment to operate animal traceability system on track
MONTREAL - Implementation is underway and the United States will have a coordinated, national system for animal identification in place by the end of the decade.
Ohio students earn president’s award for project
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush and Steve Johnson, EPA acting administrator, honored students at the White House April 21, awarding the 2004 President's Environmental Youth Awards.
Ohio’s first peregrine falcon chicks hatch in Cleveland
COLUMBUS - The first peregrine falcon chicks of the 2005 season have hatched in Cleveland at The Cleveland Clinic and Terminal Tower sites; in Lakewood; and in the Village of Cleves, just west of Cincinnati.
Pennsylvania — More than 300,000 acres preserved
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Fifty-three farms totaling 5,674 acres were preserved during the state farmland preservation board meeting in Harrisburg, Pa.
