Got a new tablet for Christmas? E-Cycle your old electronics
Rather than making products from scratch, recycling electronics keeps harmful toxins out of landfills, recovers valuable materials that can be reused, conserves virgin resources and results in lower emissions, including greenhouse gases which contributes to climate change.
Choose the best seed for your garden
After the hectic holiday has passed, gardeners will begin sorting through their big piles of seed catalogs to choose spring seed.
Five baking tips and tricks
Making cookies, cakes and pies isn’t so stressful when you have some tricks up your sleeve.
ATI students find success with two-year bioenergy program
Program trains students for two-year degrees in marketable fields.
Needed: 11 trillion gallons of water to replenish California drought
IRVINE, Calif. — It will take about 11 trillion gallons of water (42 cubic kilometers) — around 1.5 times the maximum volume of the...
Avian flu found in backyard flock in Oregon; no commercial poultry affected
Highly pathogenic (HPAI) H5N8 avian influenza has been confirmed in guinea fowl and chickens from a small backyard poultry flock in Winston, Oregon.
10 tips for beginning farmers to ride out market uncertainty
10 things beginning farmers should know. (Hint: It takes years for some to master good management practices.)
Farmers, businesses get Christmas gift of tax break on equipment
Legislation allowing businesses to write off up to $500,000 of an equipment purchase made in 2014 was signed by President Barack Obama Dec. 19, and farm equipment dealers geared up for a flurry of year-end business.
Manure-spreading world record applies 4,600 tons in 24 hours
A dedicated team of Ukrainian dairy farmers worked ‘round the clock to set the new record, spreading 4,217 metric tons of manure across 548 acres in 24 hours.
Farm and Dairy’s week in review: 12/20
The top stories from the week Dec. 14 to Dec. 20, 2014.
