Saturday, July 11, 2026

YOUNGSVILLE, Pa. - Join Joel Salatin, nationally-known sustainable agriculture speaker, for a seminar March 24 at the 4-H center at the Warren County Fairgrounds in Pittsfield, Pa.

WAVERLY, W.Va. - Little Kanawha Resource Conservation and Development Coordinator Kurt Simon was recently named National Coordinator of the Year by the National Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils.

NEWBURY, Ohio - Paul Taylor has found his niche. It's in his pants. Founder and self-proclaimed "Head Monkey" of Arborwear, Taylor, 37, leads a staff of seven to imagine, research, design, test and market a fairly new line of outdoor clothing best known for its trousers.

COLUMBUS - Every weekend, hundreds of youth compete for the top spots in Ohio's cattle shows. They go to showgrounds with everything from iPods to pink show sticks, each competitor hoping this show will be the one.

TORONTO, Ohio - Sitting at the kitchen table after school, Michael Swickard spreads out nine notebook pages of drawings.

By now you've read or heard about the Wayne County hog farm accused of mistreating its animals. Accused. Not convicted, not jailed, not hung...

WASHINGTON - Horse slaughter is an issue that cuts to the core of agriculture and it has farmers looking anxiously to their legislators for help.

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers writing the 2007 farm bill have about $30 billion worth of requests per year for funding from the commodities portion of the bill.

WASHINGTON - Bipartisan legislation introduced in both houses of Congress and strongly supported by the

U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, on ... The 2007 farm bill: Better prices lately have meant less spending, so it's likely there will be less money to go around this time.