Beaver Co. 4-H’ers repeat with market champions
Jason Heinlein of Aliquippa repeated his 2000 grand champion steer performance, followed by Levi McLaughlin of Georgetown who returned with another reserve champion steer.
Holmes County youth show junior dairy champions
Mohican Farm bid $14 per pound for Ami Breitenbucher's 188-pound market hog, raising $2,632 to provide the funds needed to establish the scholarship in Breitenbucher's memory.
Bookstore to hold Isaly’s reunion
Main Street Books of Mansfield, site of the first Isaly's store, will provide an opportunity for people to share their Isaly memories and memorabilia.
Thanks for support
A 4-H exhibitor thanks the buyers of her steer who showed such kindness and generosity at a past Canfield Fair.
BST use leveling off in Wisconsin
With one-sixth of Wisconsin dairy farms using bovine somatotropinwell, the adoption level is well below what was expected in the debate that preceded its commercial release in 1994.
Cleveland Rocks Coin-op show has everything coin-op
The show will be Sept. 14-16 at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea, featuring all those machines that have ever been operated by putting money into a coinslot.
Detroit: Stove capital of the world
Advertising pamphlets in the culinary collection at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library document the products of the no fewer than five major companies that made stoves in Detroit at the turn of the century, and give a picture of the home kitchen a hundred years ago.
Do-it-yourself tooth bleaching kits may cause problems
They have the potential to cause an infection or nerve damage, say oral surgeons at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Mixing hog manure and sawdust into compost could be management option
A University of Illinois extension study found that mixing 50 gallons of slurry with a cubic yard of sawdust created a compost with about 50 percent moisture and no odor that was ready to apply as fertilizer in five months.
Ohio insect carrying new corn virus
Ohio State University and USDA researchers have learned that the black-faced leafhopper, which transmits the maize chlorotic dwarf virus, also transmits a corn virus discovered last year.
