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.
Amish dairyman gets OK to continue farming after raw milk incident
SALEM, Ohio - Two months after a Holmes County farmer's dairy license was revoked, he is now back in business.
Organic corn holds its own in Ohio
WOOSTER, Ohio - Given the right conditions, organic farming can produce, on average, as much corn per acre in Ohio as conventional farming can, according to an Ohio State University study.
Elk fill Bugle Valley’s farm niche
BUTLER, Ohio - It's been a long time since elk roamed this part of Ohio - if ever - but occasionally during the mating season you can hear a bull elk bugling in the hills near Butler, Ohio.
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.
Organic food watchdog sues USDA
CORNUCOPIA, Wis. - The Cornucopia Institutehas filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding the USDA provide public records sought through several Freedom of Information Act requests.
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.
Viktories — This artist has had many in 100 years
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - You may not recognize his name, but almost every adult living in America has driven, used, worn, played with, collected or admired something created by
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.
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.













