Tuesday, June 16, 2026

THOMPSON, Ohio - Dick Black likes to say he's the same as any other farmer. He tests his soil, adds nutrients and worries about how his crop is growing.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio - You can smell Kirke Porterfield coming before his old Mercedes even makes it up the drive.

MARYSVILLE, Ohio - More than 400 people celebrated the 2005-2006 Ohio Cattlemen's Association BEST (Beef Exhibitor Show Total) program as it wrapped up June 10 with its annual awards banquet held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus.

Farm and Dairy asked several agricultural leaders for "the best business advice" they'd ever received.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - There's more than just lush grasses around cattle pastures these days: flies.

COLUMBUS - Plant-derived industrial products play a key role in the country's plan to cut down dependence on foreign petroleum by boosting production and use of domestic energy and feedstock sources.

It is labeled as a "risk management analysis paper," and USDA is careful to say that it is not a farm bill proposal, but the document released early in May in Washington certainly explores the potential for three policy proposals that are leading candidates for becoming the basis for the 2007 farm bill.

He was a "carpet farmer" as a kid. He was a farmer's helper in his youth. And now, he is an enthusiastic toy farmer.

PITTSBURGH - Maximizing the potential of microgrowing makes harvest a daily event at Mung Dynasty farm on Pittsburgh's south side.