Ohio elevators offering premiums for low-lin beans in ’08
DES MOINES, Iowa - Ohio growers now have more opportunities to market their soybeans for a premium. A select group of Ohio elevators is offering growers expanded options to earn special premiums for soybeans during the 2008 season.
Pa. interstate lease likened to double tax
NEW YORK - Transportation officials in Pennsylvania recently signed an agreement that awards control of Interstate 80 from the state Transportation Department to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
Plum trees resistant to plum pox virus
WASHINGTON - Plum trees with resistance to plum pox, a virus that can devastate stone fruit, have moved a step closer to reality, according to the Agricultural Research Service.
Another egg farm files for permits
SALEM, Ohio - Permit applications have been filed with the Ohio Department of Agriculture that may allow a 6 million hen poultry farm to be built in Union County.
ODA watches county fair sales
SALEM, Ohio - Keep an eye on livestock projects. That's the warning issued recently to three county fair boards by the Ohio Department of Agriculture after livestock projects exhibited at the fairs reportedly didn't end up at the slaughterhouse, breaking state rules.
Conservation efforts get a thumbs up
BARNESVILLE, Ohio - Art and Sandy Monahan have earned the 2007 Conservation Farm Family award from the Belmont Soil and Water Conservation District.
Meetings address dairy labeling
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - The first Ohio Dairy Labeling Advisory Committee will meet from 1-4:30 p.m. Dec.
New curator at Pasto Ag Museum
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A new volunteer curator has been named for Penn State's Pasto Agricultural Museum Daryl Heasley of State College, retired professor emeritus of rural sociology, will take the reins of the museum at year's end.
Ohio, Pa. exhibitors win at NAILE
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Results are still rolling in from the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Ky.
Pa. chooses new lamb and wool queen
MERCER, Pa. - Rebecca Giles of Belle Vernon, Pa., has been crowned the 2008 Pennsylvania Lamb and Wool Queen.
