Does EPA agreement provide safe harbor from the storm?
For decades, both government and agriculture have assumed air pollution laws do not apply to livestock and poultry farms.
Farm and Dairy is looking for contributing writers
SALEM - Farm and Dairy is looking for freelance farm writers to cover broad-based ag assignments and is also looking for contributing writers to cover farm meetings or banquets in their home county.
Feeding distillers’ grains to beef cattle
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Increased ethanol processing capacity in the upper Midwest has led to greater supplies of dry milling co-products.
January ethanol production sets all-time record
WASHINGTON - According to The Renewable Fuels Association, U.S. fuel ethanol use hit an all-time monthly high in January of 320 million gallons. The previous high of 312 million gallons was set in December of 2004.
Positive case of chronic wasting disease in N.Y.
ALBANY, N.Y. - The first positive case of chronic wasting disease in New York has been confirmed in a white-tailed doe from a captive herd in Oneida County.
Transgenic cows resist mastitis
WASHINGTON - USDA researchers have used gene-transfer technologies to produce dairy cows that resist a widespread bacterial infection called mastitis.
U.S. soybean growers would rather fight than switch
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Before even a single infectious spore lands on a cropfield this spring or summer, Asian soybean rust is affecting United States soybean production.
USDA designates Ohio counties as disaster area
WASHINGTON - The USDA designated 16 counties in Ohio as primary agricultural disaster areas March 29.
Ohio agriculture has opportunities, if it looks
WOOSTER, Ohio - You might say that farmers in northeastern Ohio are "tweeners", farming between the edge of the Corn Belt and the edge of the Population Belt.
United Producers files bankruptcy
SALEM, Ohio - United Producers and Producers Credit Corporation have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
