U.S. steps up BSE research
Health and Human Service Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has unveiled a plan to further strengthen surveillance, increase research resources, and expand existing inspection efforts to prevent BSE and TSEs from entering or taking hold in the United States
Pa. to develop statewide network of greenways
A network of greenways will connect corridors of open space, natural landscape features and recreational sites statewide.
Sounds of Civil War will resound at battlefield
A reenactment of the Battle of Carnifex Ferry that will be held during the weekend of Sept. 8-9 at Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park in W.Va.
Records fall at Portage Co. market livestock sale
Six of the ten grand champion animals sold Aug. 25 at the Portage County Randolph Fair Junior Fair Market Livestock Auction set record high prices.
Ohio tourism Web site: Still lots to do in Ohio in September
The Web site includes a whole list of September activities, including fairs, festivals, and celebrations still available to be experienced.
Smith family spends fair season on the road, cheering on hogs
Ramy Swine Farm is in the business of breeding and selling club show hogs, and when pigs leave the farm they are almost always headed for a showring someplace.
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.
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.
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.
Sustaining farms by blocking trade?
Guest columnist Dennis T. Avery, of Churchville, Va., director of global food issues for the Hudson Institute of Indianapolis, writes about Ralph Nader's proposed no-NAFTA solution to sustaining family farms that would mean cutting output from the productive farmlands back by perhaps one-third.
