Rain delay: Planting screeches to a halt
Area farmers planted at breakneck speed in April and early May. Then the rains came.
Captive Passage: The making of the Americas
The story of the slave trade and the role it played in the development of the New World is the focus of a major traveling exhibition presented at the Smithsonian.
Consumers deserve to know where food comes from
Country-of-origin labeling isn't all bad: U.S. farmers deserve to get the credit for the quality food they produce.
First Pa. ag small business loans made
First loans awarded to agriculture businesses through Pennsylvania's Small Business First program.
Get my drift? Better hope the neighbors don’t
This spring, let's hope farmers "catch the drift" from their herbicides and other farm chemicals before their neighbors do.
Human interference with animals could be factor in SARS development
Human and animal interference may have caused coronavirus associated with SARS to jump species.
Justice Department: DFA expansion could hike school milk prices in Ky.
Suit seeks to prevent higher milk prices in Kentucky and Tennessee schools.
KFC adds animal welfare standards
Audits address the breeding, hatching and raising of poultry at the farm level.
Looking good: Crops in the ground
Spring weather cooperating for a great start to growing season.
Niagara ship remains home for most of the summer
The US Brig Niagara, official flagship of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, will visit ports on Lake Erie this summer.
