Saturday, May 18, 2024

WOOSTER, Ohio - Ever think of throwing some candy or salad or even potato chips into your cows' ration? Maybe you should.

SALEM, Ohio - Sometimes the best lessons aren't learned in the classroom, but in the garage. Rich Adams and Mike Hill spent the majority of their senior year in Waterford High School's shop with grease stained into the ridges of their finger tips and wrenches in their back pockets.

MADISON, Wis. - Living outside and surviving through the winter months can be stressful for a horse.

AMARILLO, Texas - Trying to predict the future for U.S. beef exports is, at best, a murky proposition.

SALEM, Ohio - The USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service reported that Asian soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi) was found on soybean leaf samples collected from two research plots near Baton Rouge, La.

WASHINGTON - The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will recognize additional numbering systems for the identification of animals.

GREENFIELD, Ind. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Rumensin (monensin sodium) for use in dairy cows late last month.

WOOSTER, Ohio - The soybean aphid, which was practically nonexistent in soybean fields this growing season, may be back with a vengeance next year.

Last year's Farm and Dairy holiday story contest was such a hit, we decided to make it a tradition. Here's the way it works: Come up with your own fictional holiday tale, share it with us, and it may be printed! Just get those entries in to us by Dec.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Every year about this time, our thoughts turn to the beauty of the changing of the seasons.