Friday, December 26, 2025
hydroponics garden

If you don’t have access to a plot of land or space in a garden to plant vegetables, you can still grow your own produce indoors using home hydroponics.

Aaron and Tara Helmick's dairy made sense financially, but it was burning them out. Sheep have given them a new lease on life.
A sheep stands broadside to the camera in a pasture with other sheep in the background

The sheep industry is going through a revival of sorts. Prices for lambs and ewes hit record highs in 2021, following a year of solid growth in 2020. People consumed more lamb last year than they have in two decades. 
laboratory

Agricultural Research Service scientist Manuel Borca is the agency's Distinguished Senior Research Scientist of the Year for 2022. 
gardening news

Catch up on local gardening news from Coshocton, Geauga, Mahoning, Richland and Wayne counties in Ohio and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.
4-H-logo

Catch up on 4-H news from Geauga Beef and Swine 4-H club, Happy Harvesters 4-H club, Sew Sew Sweet 4-H club and Londonderry Lads and Lassies 4-H club.
farmers market

Pennsylvania farmers markets generate an estimated $100 million in sales each year, according to a new Penn State Extension analysis.
Spotted lanternfly sticky band traps

Indiana County Conservation District demonstrated how to use a circle trap to eliminate spotted lanternflies without harming other wildlife. 
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Catch up on local FFA news from Waterford FFA and Hillsdale FFA.
Cows eating in a pasture.

One reader shares his thoughts on beef labeling, stressing that the product-of-USA label should be reserved for cattle raised in the United States.