Interest in alternative medicine growing
More Americans are becoming interested in alternative medicine. And acceptance by mainstream health care providers is growing, too.
Twin sisters break sales records at Summit Co. Fair livestock sale
Twins Lisa and Amy Bourgeois took both the grand and reserve champion titles for their steers at the Summit County Fair last week and sold them at the fair's highest prices in history.
New video features dairy show ethics
A new youth-oriented video on dairy show ethics is available through the Holstein Foundation.
USDA depopulating Texas dairies
In a last ditch effort to get rid of bovine TB in Texas, the USDA is taking the drastic measure of buying out the dairy farms in El Paso County to create a buffer zone between the U.S. and tuberculosis-infected farms of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Ohio will host conference for amphora lovers
The Amphora Works produced art pottery in the Turn-Teplitz Region of Austria at the turn of the last century. Amphora collectors will hold a conference Aug. 9-11 at the Holiday Inn in Sidney, Ohio.
Alumnus recounts 4-H days, gives $50,000 to new center
Former 4-H'er Tiney McComb and his wife, Helena, along with his bank based in Gahanna, Ohio, pledged $50,000 to the new Ohio 4-H Center to be built on the OSU campus in Columbus.
Six inducted into state fair hall of fame
The newest class of inductees to the Ohio State Fair Hall of Fame include E. Denslow Eversole of Baltimore; Richard Lewis of Orient; C. LaVon Shook of Columbus; Ruth Stackhouse of Wakeman; Esta Lee Strauser of Mount Vernon; and Walter M. Burns of Plain City.
New York dairy farmers plan to keep farming, expand operations in future
The majority of dairy farm operators in all areas of New York state plan to maintain or expand their dairy herds, and are prepared to keep their land in farming through the next generation.
Nutrition from birth to first lambing influences productivity of the ewe
Development of replacement ewe lambs over the summer prior to breeding has an impact on the overall productivity of the flock.
What does your life say about you?
Editor Susan Crowell gets an insider's peak at the lives of seemingly ordinary individuals who worked quietly to accomplish some extraordinary things.
