Pork industry gets $400,000 boost from USDA for animal ID efforts
Strip mine turns to dream for Youngs
BELMONT, Ohio - Selling the farm. Retiring from a career that lasted more than 30 years. Moving to a different state.
Boehner out of picture, but two Ohio congressmen named to ag committee
Farm show sales benefit scholarships
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Topping the sale of champions at the 2007 Pennsylvania Farm Show was the grand champion junior market steer, selling for $18,000.
Farmer reinvents the tractor wheel to win grand prize
SALT LAKE CITY - John "Pete" Gipson of Texas earned the grand prize in the Farmer Idea Exchange competition at the American Farm Bureau Federation's 88th annual meeting.
Following their calling
Kylee Hostetter of Beaver Falls, Pa., and Dave Conley of York, Pa., were selected as Rookie of the Year and Champion Bid Caller, respectively, at the Pennsylvania Auctioneers Association Bid Calling Championships Jan.
2006 deer season harvest exceeds all-time record
COLUMBUS - Hunters took 22,413 deer during Ohio's four-day muzzleloader season, Dec. 27-30, with Tuscarawas County again leading the state with 949 deer checked.
Breathing easier: Ohio county meets air standards
CHICAGO - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced recently that the Steubenville-Weirton metropolitan area is meeting the health-based eight-hour outdoor air quality standard for ozone (smog), and proposed to approve a request by Ohio to redesignate the county to attainment of the national ambient air quality standard.
Farming and faith intersect at fourth sustainable ag conference
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. - Fred Kirschenmann, an organic farming pioneer and agricultural visionary, will headline Farming with Values that Last 2007, a sustainable farming conference Feb.
Scientists warn: Rapidly-spreading swine disease has unknown source
MANHATTAN, Kan. - A new disease has taken swine producers, veterinarians and scientists across the country by surprise and left them searching for solutions.













