USDA extending certain CRP hardwood contracts
Certain Conservation Reserve Program contracts expiring this year for hardwood tree practices may be extended for one year.
What are the impacts of ethanol subsidies?
Ethanol has received tax breaks since the mid-1970s and yet still remains unable to compete economically with gasoline without tax breaks. A new study hopes to find out if subsidies help farmers and consumers alike.
Area crops: Slow but steady progress
Crop conditions have been variable across the region and in each county, according to reports.
Milk marketing order pool riding vote under way
Dairy farmers can close a loophole that has cost producers in Mideast marketing area $98 million in lost income since June 2000.
Avon hosts annual Aunt Teak, Uncle Junque sales in June
Avon's city-wide Aunt Teak and Uncle Junque yard sales will be held June 22-23.
Give your bull a job evaluation
Just as new employee evaluations occur during the first 30 days of employment, an "on-the-job" bull evaluation should be performed early in the breeding season.
Gray found guilty in cattle theft case in Belmont Co.
Previously convicted cattle thief Christopher Gray was sentenced May 30 to serve five years in the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio.
Manufactured homes dealt blow
Reader comments on ruling in regard to manufactured homes.
Growing opportunity: Ohio farmers take look at white corn
Ohio growers looking for an alternative to yellow feed corn are faced with a growing opportunity in white corn.
USDA proposes foot-and-mouth disease indemnity regulation
The USDA proposed to amend its regulations to give the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service authority to pay 100 percent of the costs for purchase, destruction and disposition of animals should they become affected with foot-and-mouth disease.
