Thursday, June 25, 2026

COLUMBUS - The Ohio Farm Service Agency (FSA) will hold public meetings in six counties to solicit public comment regarding the Ohio FSA proposed office restructuring plan in which Perry, Erie, Carroll, Warren, Lorain and Montgomery county offices are being considered for closure.

DUNBAR, Pa. - A 5-year-old claimed top honors at the Pennsylvania Holstein Association's southwest championship show July 28 at the Fayette County fairgrounds in Dunbar, Pa.

MERCER, Pa. - Three new unofficial records. One record tied. That's how buyers supported Mercer County 4-H youth at the annual Mercer County 4-H Roundup livestock sale Aug.

JEFFERSON, Ohio - When the Ashtabula County Fair junior livestock sale ended Aug. 10, half of its records had crumbled.

BUTLER, Pa. - The sound of thunder booming over the Butler Farm Show Aug. 9 matched the sound of records being shattered during the junior livestock sale.

WOOSTER, Ohio - Anyone who's raised animals knows it doesn't take much to go from a single critter to a backyard full of pens and water buckets and feed bags.

SALEM, Ohio - It all started with some pigs. In 2005, six 4-H'ers from Ohio, Pennsylvania and Hancock County in West Virginia put their pigs on the auction block at the Hancock County Oldtime Fair.

BURBANK, Ohio - Charis Thorsell sinks into a wicker rocker on her parents' wraparound porch, tucking her guitar with the dolphins on it under her elbow.

BURBANK, Ohio - As a breeder, Denny Thorsell wanted to showcase his stock. And that showcase he started five years ago, called

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and incoming Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee each celebrated their first Ohio State Fair Sale of Champions Aug.