Farmers see a dramatic drop in dairy prices
A dismal decline in milk prices during recent months has left America's dairy farmers facing devastating circumstances. Thanks to the global economic recession and growing dairy supplies, milk prices are down more than 50 percent from last summer. The tumble comes on the heels of all-time highs in 2007 and the second-highest level on record in 2008.
Tractor puller is ready for Last Ride
James Wood (center) accepted a trophy in 1973 for taking first place in his class at the tractor pulling championship in Louisville, Ky. Now, he's working on his final pulling tractor -- a project he calls Last Ride.
Ag tire production keeps on rolling
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- They're round and black and unless you're a farmer, you don't give farm tires a second thought.The ag world, however, has...
Geese around airports are more than a nuisance
Chances are, the flock of geese that U.S Airways Flight 1549 flew through Jan. 15 before crash landing in the Hudson River was not composed of migrating birds, according to wildlife experts in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
National Farm Machinery Show visitors, exhibitors ‘cautiously optimistic’
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Farmers were looking, perhaps dreaming a little, but many were also spending. Farm equipment and allied industry exhibitors were smiling, perhaps...
Chronic wasting disease not detected in Ohio deer
COLUMBUS -- For the seventh straight year, testing of Ohio's deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease, a degenerative brain disease...
Only a farmer’s love …
Mahoning County farmer Ed Schaefer Jr. decided to skip the flowers, chocolates and mushy card for his wife, Jen, and made a more public...
Scenes from the National Farm Machinery Show
Planters, sprayers, fencing, metal cleaners, forage seeders -- you can find just about everything at the National Farm Machinery Show, Feb. 11-14, in Louisville,...
View from The Pit at the National Farm Machinery Show
Even though the lights flickered off and on intermittently on Wednesday (and finally went off at 5 p.m., stayed off, but came on in...
Wayne County farm gets $250,000 clean coal grant
The Ohio Air Quality Development Authority has approved a $250,000 grant to co-fund the design of a 10 million BTU hybrid fluidized bed gasifier for use in heating greenhouses at Cedar Lane Farms in Wooster, Ohio.
