Choosing hybrids? It pays to be picky
COLUMBUS - Corn yield potential has increased as much as 2.5 percent per year over the past half-century because of genetic improvements in hybrids.
Cow’s hoof health critical to breeding
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A dairy herd is like an army: It runs on its stomach. But a dairy herd also runs on sound feet ...
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.
Farmers can get tips on marketing to restaurants
COLUMBUS - Amy Trubek, executive director of the Vermont Fresh Network, will be the featured speaker at a half-day workshop for farmers interested in selling directly to restaurants and supermarkets.
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.
