How to winterize your home
While it might not feel like it, colder winter weather is on the way and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection wants all residents to stay safe and warm this winter by properly preparing their homes.
In whatever way you’re connected to agriculture, ‘thank you’
Pennsylvania's Secretary of Agriculture, Russell Redding, offers heartfelt thanks during this season of thanksgiving: 'Thank you for your commitment to agriculture, in whatever way you are connected.'
Still looking for Mr. Goodnews
To turn around grain prices, commentator Marlin Clark says we need to turn around the mood of the speculators.
Although oil and gas production is up, Chesapeake posts 3Q loss
Chesapeake's Utica shale net production in the third quarter dropped 15 percent, as the company curtailed production as a result of weak product pricing.
November’s gardening to-do list
This month, you can pick up where you left off with October’s gardening chores and make sure your lawn and garden are ready for winter.
Farm and Dairy’s week in review: 11/7
This week’s top stories include a bull attack on a Grove City, Pennsylvania, farmer, cast iron cooking tips, proposed cuts to the crop insurance program and more.
Cattle producers: Watch for signs of anaplasmosis
Beef and dairy producers in Indiana should watch their herds carefully this fall for signs of the blood disease anaplasmosis, a Purdue animal health specialist said.
Hog manure could fuel your truck or car
Biogas created from nearly two million hogs annually at Smithfield Foods Hog Production's Ruckman Farm in Northwest Missouri will produce approximately 2.2 billion cubic feet of renewable natural gas - equivalent to 17 million gallons of diesel fuel annually.
How to overwinter perennial flowers
Fall garden maintenance of perennials is minimal, but important to keep flowers at peak performance.
Groups ask US Supreme Court to hear EPA-Chesapeake Bay case
The Pa. Farm Bureau is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a federal court decision that upholds the EPA’s implementation of a TMDL plan in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
