Haitian government plan calls for $700 million investment for ag sector
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is calling for international donors to support a $700 million investment plan...
Red winter wheat earning its keep
Ohio had the largest increase in wheat acreage this year of any other Midwest state.
Get details on organic farm certification at ‘Organics 201’
Ohio State University and the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association are coordinating a workshop will guide farmers through the process of completing an organic farm plan, which they must complete annually to receive and maintain organic certification.
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.
Beaver Co. woman honored at farm show
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff recognized Geri Moore of Hookstown, Beaver County, as the winner of the Farm Show Service Award at the 2008
U.S. is on fiscal thin ice
WASHINGTON — Everything in Washington D.C. is about money: who has it, who doesn’t and who wants more.
There are several emerging voices in Congress,...
Invasive fish enters streams feeding Lake Michigan, but so far, so good in the...
MADISON — Invasive species are known for disturbing their new homes. Whether it’s the zebra mussels in the Great Lakes or garlic mustard in...
NAFTA’s effects felt a decade later
BLACKSBURG, Va. — A new Virginia Tech study confirms that the North American Free Trade Agreement, commonly known as NAFTA, which has re-entered national...
Tomorrow’s cowboys will ‘whisper’ commands to herds via technology
WASHINGTON — The same Global Positioning System (GPS) technology used to track vehicles is now being used to track cows.
But Agricultural Research Service...
Managing winter weed with herbicides
Weeds such as common chickweed, henbit, purple deadnettle, and marestail (horseweed) have increased to the point that they require changes in herbicide management in some fields.