Senate probes USDA waste, fraud
Panel questions USDA ag funds used for murals, empty lots and a $97 million vehicle.
Smashing pumpkin!
Todd Skinner of Barnesville, Ohio, broke the state pumpkin record with his pumpkin weighing in at 1,109 pounds
USDA expands storage loan program
USDA has expanded the farm storage facility loan program, which offers low-interest loans to farmers building on-farm storage facilities.
USGS scientists warn West Nile virus is on the move
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed West Nile Virus is on the move and is likely to head south.
New hats of many colors stitched by many hands
A great pile of caps of many colors, constructed by visitors during the three days of the Farm Science Review, will warm the heads this winter of every child in the Columbus Homeless Families Foundation housing complex.
State ag secretaries look ahead to 2002 farm bill
COLUMBUS -- Getting the federal government to tie highway funding to ethanol use may have been in the hopper for action, but it was...
Greatest potential of precision farming remains in its promise
The greatest potential of precision farming is probably still in the future, when the technology has developed even more than it has today.
Tornado hits Xenia… again
An F-4 tornado struck southwestern Ohio Sept. 20, revisiting the Greene County town of Xenia leveled by a tornado in 1974.
U.S. breaks trade block of China’s Great Wall
The U.S. Senate last week approved an amendment-free bill granting permanent normal trade relations for China.
Vote pushed back on megafarm bill
COLUMBUS -- The debate over Ohio Senate Bill 141, which would transfer regulation of large-scale farms to the Ohio Department of Agriculture from the...
