Sunday, August 2, 2026

WOOSTER, Ohio - Under laboratory conditions, sawdust bedding not only yielded higher counts of E. coli O157:H7 than sand bedding; it also harbored the pathogen longer.

HARTVILLE, Ohio - Three Stark County dairies attained "elite" status from the Ohio DHI Cooperative for achieving production levels in the state's top 5 percent.

MASSILLON, Ohio - This spring will be the first in more than 75 years that the Horner family near Massillon isn't tending to a strawberry crop.

SALEM, Ohio - Ohio's largest proposed dairy, a 4,500-cow operation, is set to begin construction in western Ohio within the next two months.

WOOSTER, Ohio - Whether dairy farmers choose sand or sawdust as bedding for their cows has never been considered a food-safety issue.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Scientists in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences expected chronic wasting disease (CWD) to show up in deer in the Northeast eventually, but they didn't anticipate that it would appear on Pennsylvania's northern doorstep this spring after being discovered in a deer that was fed to 350 people.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Attendees to the National Institute for Animal Agriculture's symposium, Protecting the Global Food Supply: Growing Concerns for Emerging Zoonotic Diseases, were left with a key message: We must strengthen animal and human health together.

VERNON, Texas -

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Agricultural leaders from five states honored five family farm operations from Pennsylvania and one from Maryland with 2005 Mid-Atlantic Master Farmer Awards.

SALEM, Ohio - Farm and Dairy reporter Kristy Hebert received honors in the 2005