Background on mad cow disease
What exactly is BSE? Find out here.
Good news for soybean growers
Another research breakthrough has been made in the battle against Phytophthora sojae, a disease that can kill soybean plants and cause significant yield losses.
How will BSE affect the market?
Ag economists and beef expert weigh in on how mad cow will change the U.S. beef and grain markets.
Humane groups argue downed animals shouldn’t be in food supply
Case of mad cow futhers humane society's opinion that nonambulatory animals should not be used for human consumption.
Mad cow disease found in U.S.
Animal linked to herd imported from Alberta, Canada, in 2001.
No-till grower, promoter, business honored at annual conference
Myron Wehr of Columbiana County, Ohio, received the annual Ohio No-Till Grower award.
ODA issues final permits to Ohio Fresh Eggs for Croton Egg Farm
The Ohio Department of Agriculture issued four final permits to install and nine final permits to operate to Ohio Fresh Eggs for the Croton Egg Farm facilities.
Pennsylvania updates right to farm
In an amendment to Pennsylvania's Right to Farm Act, local governments will be held financially responsible for making laws that don't comply with the state.
Better than ethanol? Butanol the fuel of the future?
Butanol could become a non-food market of as much as 400 million additional bushels of corn per year.
Checkoff helped build demand, protect dairy’s image in 2003
Key projects were 3-A-Day of dairy program, nutrition research and weight loss, and school and restaurant sales.
