Farm and Dairy keeps reader in touch with home
Farm and Dairy gives Las Vegas resident a taste of home.
Ashland County buyers support 4-H’ers
Buyers turned out in force to show their support for the junior fair livestock exhibitors during the 2002 Ashland County Junior Fair Livestock Auction.
Astronauts take gardening to space
Longer missions to space will require astronauts to grow some of their own food.
Nine million lost health insurance during recession, economists report
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Great Recession of 2007-09 -- the longest and most severe U.S. recession since 1933 -- has cost an estimated 9.3 million American adults their health insurance coverage due to unemployment, reports a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Weed killer Atrazine aids conservation tillage
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- According to a new study by Paul D. Mitchell, ag economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the herbicide atrazine benefits U.S. corn, sorghum and sugar cane farmers by up to $3.3 billion annually, thanks to increased yield, decreased cost and reduced soil erosion.
National Cattlemen’s Foundation offers 2019-20 scholarship
The National Cattlemen’s Foundation is now accepting applications for the W.D. Farr Scholarships for the 2019-20 school year.
Talk it out
SANDY LAKE, Pa. - Several years ago, Dale Kepner was facing a tough decision on his 40-head dairy. Although he'd been keeping his cattle in old barns and using old facilities to do the milking, he never had any intention of doing a major overhaul with his system.
Egg-production practices meet demand and maintain hen well- being
Study finds costs will increase egg prices if conventional cage production is changed.
Honors abound for two men devoted to vegetable production in Pa.
By ANDY ANDREWSHERSHEY, Pa. — Nobody thought of Herbert Pollock as simply a seed salesman.In fact, when he made his rounds in many parts...
Infrastructure investments could save U.S. farmers millions
ST. LOUIS -- U.S. farmers depend on a 50-year-old highway system, a 70-year-old inland waterway system and a railway network built in the late...
