Over 6,000 years, corn has changed
BELTSVILLE, Md. - Those ears of sweet, crisp corn that are such a familiar part of summertime picnics haven't always looked or tasted that way.
The Chuck Whitney story: Barn work
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio - You could say that Chuck Whitney's career began before World War II, when he was a young boy helping on neighbors' farms.
Eagle eyes
DIAMOND, Ohio - Sixty-five feet in the air, Jeff Janosik looks across the treetops.
The old beech tree he's perched in - he figures it's 80 to 100 years old - is taller than most in the woodland here, not far from Lake Milton.
No prize for biggest farm
ASHLAND, Ohio - It's a stretch to put Harold and Julia Swain in the same category as other young farmers.
Ron Kreis: Ohioan is world champion auctioneer
SALEM, Ohio - Ron Kreis chants and calls while he drives, auctioneering passing fence posts and telephone poles to invisible bidders.
Antibiotic use in animals rises in 2004
WASHINGTON - The sales of antibiotics used to treat, prevent and control disease and maintain the health of animals rose 7.
Be careful when leasing farm’s energy
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Don't be too quick to sign off on any deal to lease wind or any other resource on your farm, advises an energy expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, who points out that if the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
BSE cow was from Texas herd
WASHINGTON - A beef cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, came from a Texas herd.
Barn fire kills Ohio dairy herd
SALEM, Ohio - "This is just a dairymen's worst nightmare, to wake up in the middle of the night and see your cows burning.
Second BSE case found
SALEM, Ohio - Tests confirmed a cow previously determined not to have mad cow disease was, in fact, positive.
