A quest to locate the perfect goat
SAN ANGELO, Texas - A Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher said most goat producers picture the "perfect goat" as being one that would produce more kids that grow faster, and remain healthy while doing so.
Be careful when managing herbicides
COLUMBUS - When it comes to managing weeds with herbicides, the worst thing a grower can do is encourage herbicide resistance through overuse or improper management.
Demands to verify source and age will mean changes for cow-calf producers
As the Japanese and other foreign markets reopen to U.S. beef, there is increasing demand for source- and age-verified cattle.
USDA presents timeline for National Animal Identification System
SALEM, Ohio - By 2009, the USDA hopes to have all U.S. livestock premises registered and all livestock under 1 year old identified through a voluntary
Conserving a legacy
BARNESVILLE, Ohio - Don Guindon stomps his boots, hangs his Select Sires hat on a peg, rolls up the sleeves on his flannel shirt and comes in for lunch.
Tire mechanic killed in explosion at Ohio farm
SALEM, Ohio - A tractor tire exploded last week at a Trumbull County dairy farm, killing the mechanic.
Drought watch is bad timing for farmers
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - You have to go back to the early 1980s to find a March as dry as this one in Pennsylvania.
Farm and Dairy writers win ag journalism honors
Hog prices are disappointing this year
URBANA, Ill. - Hog prices have lost their luster, according to a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist.
Meat packers will be fined millions
BILLINGS, Mont. - Jurors in a federal class action trial reached a unanimous verdict April 12 against three of the nation's largest multinational meat packers for ignoring incorrect boxed-beef price reports issued by the USDA during a six-week period in the spring of 2001.













