Pennsylvania seeks to energize beef with new Center for Beef Excellence
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Center for Beef Excellence is being developed to support, promote and expand the beef industry in Pennsylvania The newly formed Pennsylvania Beef Task Force board of directors unanimously approved a motion to develop the center, which will be modeled after the successful Center for Dairy Excellence.
Producers can expect record costs: ’08 could be worst year ever for pork
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - This year may be the worst financial year for pork producers since the 1998, said a Purdue University Extension
Mixing it up
WAYNESBURG, Ohio - Mike Roberts says he has the Heinz 57 of farms. There's a little of everything on his 180 acres in Carroll County - meat chickens, egg-laying chickens, turkeys, beef cattle, dairy cattle, garden produce, homemade biodiesel.
Pa. softens its stance on dairy labeling
SALEM, Ohio - Pennsylvania will soon see a change in its milk labeling laws, but it's not the change the state has anticipated since October.
Power Show Ohio 2008
Getting to know PSO Power Show Ohio is all about agricultural, construction and outdoor power equipment and products.
Farm giveaway still open
SALEM, Ohio - It's not over yet. So says Rose Wallace, the Ashtabula County farm owner who, along with her husband, Dennis, vowed nearly a year ago to give their farm to the winner of an essay contest.
An exotic fruits sampler
Here are some details about other fruits being studied at the Agricultural Research Station's Tropical Agriculture Research Station in Mayag
Climate and soils support tropical crop research
WASHINGTON - The heat and humidity are no bother to Ricardo Goenaga as he walks from tree to 9-foot-tall tree in an experimental plot the
Treat soydiesel like any diesel fuel
COLUMBUS - Now that winter has arrived, it's time to take extra care with the soy biodiesel fuel that powers many of the state's trucks, tractors and farm equipment.
Ohio cattlemen salute their own
COLUMBUS - Friends and members of the Ohio Cattlemen's Association rarely see Fayette County cattleman Bill Sexten at a loss for words, but Sexten was dumbfounded during the association's annual meeting Jan.













