You can’t just sling it anywhere
COLUMBUS - Livestock producers who apply manure in the winter need to know it's not business as usual.
Vet goes ‘back to the basics’
SHREVE, Ohio - Almost 20 years ago, on a sweltering July afternoon, veterinarian Paul Dettloff made an emergency stop at a Wisconsin farm.
This year will be a ‘whole new world’
SHREVE, Ohio - How would you like to get $26.80 a hundredweight for your milk, a dairy expert asked a group of farmers in Shreve, Ohio.
Ohio Supreme Court: Landowners have a right to groundwater
SALEM, Ohio - If you own the land, you have a property right to the water beneath it. According to a recent judgment by the Ohio Supreme Court, Ohio landowners have a property right in the groundwater under their land and the government cannot violate that right without providing compensation.
Extension office will depend on donations
SALEM, Ohio - Tax dollars won't fund the operations of the Columbiana County Extension office this year, but hopefully donations will.
New poultry program ensures safety
SALEM, Ohio - Much of the poultry industry agreed last week to test all of its flocks for a deadly strain of bird flu.
Five Pa. residents awarded for conservation work in Lawrence County
NEW CASTLE, Pa. - For Gary Fulkman, conservation is just something that's always been at the forefront of his mind.
Farm Bureau president says farmers must speak up before others do
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - America's farmers and ranchers have an obligation to provide input on farm program changes before outside forces do it for them, American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman said during his address at the American Farm Bureau Federation's 87th annual meeting in Nashville, where about 6,500 Farm Bureau members gathered.
Using plants to clean polluted soils
PIKETON, Ohio - With gardens and fields of sweet corn, berries and other horticulture-related plots dotting the grounds of Ohio State University's South Centers at Piketon, it would be easy to dismiss the dozen scraggly-looking potted plants sitting alone in one of the facility's greenhouses.
Obituary: Edwin Copeland
MILLPORT, Ohio - After nearly 50 years of observing Columbiana County's weather and many years of reporting it to Farm and Dairy, Edwin Copeland will no longer be at the Millport 2 N.
