Farming New Fields: Meat market secures farm’s future
Six generations of Moores have their Mahoning County farm and its market enterprises changing.
Differing visions
Farm Bureau rep's comment regarding the Noble County visioning program angers another county resident.
Pa. farmers could get a big tax break
The Pa. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Farmland Preservation is stepping up its campaign to purchase agricultural conservation easements.
Not enough signatures for beef referendum
The USDA announced Jan. 17 that not enough valid petitions were received to require a referendum on the beef checkoff.
Pa. to build new livestock center
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently released $5.6 million for the construction of a new Pennsylvania Livestock Evaluation Center.
Cows aren’t ordering takeout; they prefer to eat frozen dinners
More beef cattle are eating frozen food this winter. And that's good, says a University of Missouri forage specialist.
Early 2001 hog prices will dip, but fall prices harder to predict
If hog slaughter increases 4 percent to 5 percent this fall, compared to fall 2000, widening spreads between live hog and wholesale pork values will likely result in Iowa-southern Minnesota hog prices averaging in the upper $20s.
Bush’s plate may be too full for ag issues
President Bush has so many competing priorities he's unlikely to advocate major changes in ag policy.
Natural gas prices hammer farmers
Farmers are facing major input price increases with no immediate sign of relief ahead because of rising production costs associated with natural gas.
Fuel-efficient vehicles are possible
If they can develop a small piece of plastic you use to talk to people half way around the world, then battery-operated vehicles, with small engines running generators to recharge these batteries, could produce vehicles that would travel 200 miles per gallon.
