Lamb checkoff gets the green light
WASHINGTON - Lamb producers approved the national checkoff in the national referendum held earlier this year.
March was a little warmer, little wetter than normal
MILLPORT, Ohio - The four winter months were 3.3 degrees warmer than normal and had 2.5 inches of rain above average, according to Edwin Copeland, U.
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.
Another rainy spring?
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Grape producers get help after imports force their prices down
SALEM, Ohio - Foreign imports drove down prices for Concord juice grape producers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York in 2003.
