Milking sheep: Wisconsin family says it’s profitable
Sheep milk is in great demand through thier sheep dairy cooperative, selling at an economically sustainable price to create domestic sheep milk cheese production.
New FSR exhibit targets small farms
The Center for Small Farms, co-sponsored by the American Small Farm magazine and Farm Science Review, is geared toward manufacturing agribusinesses that assist smaller acreage farmers.
Friendly family feuds dominated Stark Co. show ring
Sibling rivalry elevated to new heights at this year's Stark County Fair junior market livestock competitions with families claiming champsionship status in hogs, steers, chickens, and cheese.
For your health: Growing gormet garlic
What started as a single row in a backyard garden has evolved into a 4-acre plot and a full-time national business.
Total for Geauga Fair hits $200,000
Prices were up for five of the 10 grand champion animals sold, and for four of the nine reserve champion animals.
A rural legend: The search for Pa. mountain lions
The mystery of whether wild eastern cougars, also commonly known as mountain lions, pumas, or panthers, really survive in the Keystone State was excited recently by the rumor of a cougar killed on Interstate 80.
Capitol Music Hall announces full schedule, variety of performances
Jamboree USA officials have brought together an array of stars for the fall and winter season at the Capitol Music Hall in Wheeling.
Dried and true: Make sure parched corn isn’t all wet
While many areas in Ohio are experiencing drought conditions that would drive growers to harvest early, drought-stressed corn should be harvested no earlier than normal corn silage.
Fight between GMOs and the bugs they repel may not be over
A Michigan State University entomologist said farmers and those marketing genetically modified seeds shouldn't become complacent because so far there has been no documented evidence that insects have developed resistance to crops engineered to repel them.
Katie-Lynn Bruening stars at Geauga Fair auction
Even though Katie-Lynn came into the ring fifth, after the grand and reserve champion and two other first place hogs had already sold, the crowd of bidders had been waiting for her and several had decided to buy her hog.
