Thursday, April 25, 2024

COLUMBUS - The Ohio and Pennsylvania auctioneers' associations recently held their state annual meetings in Columbus and Hershey, Pa.

EAST ROCHESTER, Ohio - Mark Kohler, in fringed leather chaps and a crumpled felt cowboy hat, strides through his cowherd looking for the mommas with the biggest bellies.

WASHINGTON - Home from college on spring break, Mike Johanns was helping his father on his family's Iowa dairy farm when a cow started frothing at the mouth and went down.

Power Show Ohio is more than a farm show, more than a construction equipment show, more than a lawn and garden tractor show. It's a power show. The 35th annual event will be held Jan. 28-30 at the Ohio Expositions Center in Columbus.

CORTLAND, Ohio - Northwestern Ohio cattlemen haul their fat cattle to northeastern Ohio slaughterhouses and pocket premiums up to $80 per head.

DAMASCUS, Ohio - It's below 40 degrees in here, cold enough to see your breath and lose track of your fingertips.

SALEM, Ohio - With air pollution accusations mounting against farms across the nation, a federal agency plans to get farmers to open themselves to scrutiny, research and governmental oversight.

With two cases of mad cow in Canada in the last month and the U.S. ready to open the border, see what's on the minds of producers, packers, consumers and livestock haulers at Damascus Livestock Auction.

OTTAWA - A Canadian cow recently found infected with mad cow disease was exposed to feed containing ruminant meat and bone meal that was produced before the 1997 feed ban.