Canadian hogs aren’t hurting U.S. farmers
WASHINGTON - The U.S. International Trade Commission determined April 6 the U.S. hog industry is not injured by live swine imports from Canada - even though the U.S. Department of Commerce determined the hogs are sold in the United States at less than fair value.
Choosing hybrids? It pays to be picky
COLUMBUS - Corn yield potential has increased as much as 2.5 percent per year over the past half-century because of genetic improvements in hybrids.
Cow’s hoof health critical to breeding
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A dairy herd is like an army: It runs on its stomach. But a dairy herd also runs on sound feet ...
Does EPA agreement provide safe harbor from the storm?
For decades, both government and agriculture have assumed air pollution laws do not apply to livestock and poultry farms.
Farm and Dairy is looking for contributing writers
SALEM - Farm and Dairy is looking for freelance farm writers to cover broad-based ag assignments and is also looking for contributing writers to cover farm meetings or banquets in their home county.
Lamb checkoff gets the green light
WASHINGTON - Lamb producers approved the national checkoff in the national referendum held earlier this year.
March was a little warmer, little wetter than normal
MILLPORT, Ohio - The four winter months were 3.3 degrees warmer than normal and had 2.5 inches of rain above average, according to Edwin Copeland, U.
Positive case of chronic wasting disease in N.Y.
ALBANY, N.Y. - The first positive case of chronic wasting disease in New York has been confirmed in a white-tailed doe from a captive herd in Oneida County.
Transgenic cows resist mastitis
WASHINGTON - USDA researchers have used gene-transfer technologies to produce dairy cows that resist a widespread bacterial infection called mastitis.
U.S. soybean growers would rather fight than switch
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Before even a single infectious spore lands on a cropfield this spring or summer, Asian soybean rust is affecting United States soybean production.
