Friday, July 3, 2026

MILO, Iowa - Recent USDA numbers show the inventory of breeding sheep is down. But one breed of sheep is showing a remarkable increase.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - With the grass now growing rapidly, some horses are in danger experiencing pasture-induced laminitis.

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - At an Ohio Holstein Association winter forum in 1986, Columbiana County dairyman Bill McKarns raised an idea about opening the national association's registry to include grade cattle.

DOVER, Ohio - Rex Pritchard's pickup truck drifts off the pavement on Blacksnake Hill Road. He slides out and wades into the road's grassy edge, surveying the cow herd in a steep hillside pasture.

WASHINGTON - The House agriculture committee began subcommittee markups of the 2007 farm bill this week.

FRAZEYSBURG, Ohio - 1961 The Berlin Crisis was escalating. Tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union were stretched thin and the threat of nuclear war loomed over the world.

SALEM, Ohio - Plans have been finalized and construction crews are making way for

SALEM, Ohio - Ohio farmers with newer "fast tractors" - those that can go as fast as 40 mph - are on the road to becoming the first in the nation to have new tractor speed protections.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Anyone concerned with the nation's energy future should attend an upcoming joint national conference on pasture land and animal feed set for June 24-26 at Penn State's University Park campus.

WILMINGTON, Ohio - The Professional Meat Goat Symposium will provide educational information on the most current topics of interest for commercial and seed stock producers of meat goats.