A roundup of 4-H news for the week of Feb. 20, 2014:
BURTON, Ohio —The Geauga Caprine Kids 4-H club invites any young person to come join us for our 2014 club year.
Geauga Caprine Kids is...
Grant funds stormwater management collaborative in Lake Erie basin
HURON, Ohio -- An $821,000 grant to fund a project to develop incentives for effective stormwater management in Ohio's Lake Erie basin was recently...
PennAg scholarships available
PennAg is proud to once again sponsor scholarships, awarding funds to students of PennAg member families.
Japan lifts beef ban
SALEM, Ohio - After months of talks, Japan agreed in late July to reopen its borders to U.S. beef. The two countries have gone back and forth over beef imports since December 2003 when BSE was first found in the U.
Sharing fresh flavor
WARSAW, Ohio - Margaret McCoy loves vegetables. She can't get enough snow peas or green peppers or zucchini or green beans.
Conservation just makes sense for these farmers
LONDON, Ohio - They don't do it because it makes their farms "look nice." Or just because they get government cost-share dollars to install a grassed waterway, a windbreak or a manure storage facility.
‘All-American’ doesn’t mean what it used to
Farmers, not Burger King, exemplify the real meaning of what's "American," observes this letter writer in response to a recent Alan Guebert column.
Can you improve forage yield potential?
John Kempf, founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, believes farmers can produce four times as much forage yield in existing fields.
Peterson is new Ohio State Fair choir director
Many stories, one voice: New state fair choir director will train about 200 members.
April showers didn’t stop Ohio crops
Even though spring was chilly and wet, crops in Ohio have bounced back from delayed starts.
