Wednesday, July 8, 2026

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio - Whether they're in favor of the proposed maintenance plan or not, residents of the

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio - A crowd of fired-up residents from the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District shouted protests and objections during a public hearing Feb. 16. Some shouts objected to the proposed assessment in the district and some shouts objected to the format of the meeting.

SALEM, Ohio - It was a decade ago, a scorching summer Sunday, when Hollis and Lowell Kemp got up from the pews of their local church and walked out.

ITHACA, N.Y. - More than two-thirds of the food in U.S. markets has at least some amount of a crop that has been genetically engineered.

WOOSTER, Ohio - Dairy farmers should be on the lookout for poor quality silage because it can lead to listeriosis, an illness also known as silage disease and circling disease.

WASHINGTON - National Association of Conservation Districts President Bill Wilson recently expressed concern with the lack of funding for conservation programs in the Administration's proposed fiscal year 2007 budget.

SAN FRANCISCO - Shortly after a government report cited problems with the USDA's oversight of genetically engineered crops, a coalition of farmers, farm groups, consumers, and environmentalists filed a lawsuit, calling the USDA's approval of genetically engineered alfalfa a threat to farmers and a risk to the environment.

URBANA, Ill. - If you've ever taken a true/false test and found yourself wishing that on some questions there was a third choice of "both" you'll be able to identify with Andy Isserman's disappointment in the way the federal government defines urban and rural America.

BILLINGS, Mont. - R-CALF USA - along with 36 local, state and tribal groups that represent independent cattle producers across the nation - jointly filed a friend-of-the-court brief Feb.

AMARILLO, Texas - Willie Wieck's farm in Etter, Texas, has a little bit of everything - wheat, cotton, seed maize, black-eyed peas, sunflowers, pumpkins, gourds, cantaloupes, watermelons, popcorn and sweet corn.