Ohio Bicentennial celebration in works
Monthlong wagon train will roll across Ohio as part of 2003 celebration.
Planting advantage: Controlled traffic
Practicing controlled traffic may give growers an advantage at a time when wet conditions are keeping most farmers out of their fields.
Q and A session: Genetics of Scrapie
By knowing a ram's genotype, the percentage of progeny that will carry scrapie resistance can be estimated.
Take a hike: Celebrate end of slavery
Join the National Park Service for a Juneteenth Celebration with music, poetry, art, food, and an Underground Railroad lantern hike.
Horse rescuer faces questions about sells animals to meat buyers
A Cleveland television station report has uncovered allegations that a horse rescue operation may actually be selling the unwanted horses for horse meat at a local auction.
U.S. Supreme Court: American Farm Bureau challenges plowing decision
A California orchard and vineyard has been prohibited from planting additional vineyards on its private farmland due to interpretations of federal wetlands regulations and of allowances for normal farming activities.
Agronomic reasons for not shucking corn
Long-term cost of planting soybeans after soybeans is greater than any possible short-term economic benefit gained by dropping corn this year.
W. Va. bans poultry and eggs from fairs
Reminder from West Virginia: No eggs or poultry - including chickens, turkeys, pigeons, doves for weddings, ostriches, emus, rosined exotic show birds - may be displayed publicly during the avian influenza outbreak in West Virginia.
Arguable nontrade concerns: International debate, U.S. policy
Nontrade concerns - environmental protection, rural development and food security - are some of the most argumentative topics on the table during World Trade Organization negotiations.
Butterflies love living on the edge
Butterflies thrive along the edges of forest logging roads or within power line rights-of-way.