Copes win Columbiana SWCD award
The Tom Cope family was honored with Columbiana SWCD's annual Cooperator of the Year award.
Don’t get burned: Make fire safety a priority
SALEM, Ohio -- Every year, hundreds of barns around the country go up in smoke. In many cases, hay, straw, machinery and livestock are...
N-P-K nightmares: Fertilizer prices force farms to cut back
SALEM, Ohio — The price of anhydrous ammonia is up 55 percent. Straight urea, up 67 percent. Potash isn’t cheap either, up 55 percent....
The ag credit crunch: Loans still available, but low interest rates not
SALEM, Ohio -- Farmers probably will not have trouble securing operating loans and farm capital after the most recent financial crisis, but when they...
Make sure your sheep are earning their keep
By ROGER A. HIGH
Ohio State University Extension
COLUMBUS -- With increasing production costs, livestock producers really need to evaluate each animal and decide whether that...
New record set: Tomato tips scale at 4.48 pounds
CANFIELD, Ohio -- Duane Perry of North Lawrence, Ohio, set a new state record for the heaviest tomato ever grown in the Buckeye State....
Holmes County celebrates 4-H clubs
WALNUT CREEK, Ohio -- The 2008 Holmes County 4-H Volunteer Recognition Banquet, Life is a highway: Make every mile a memory, marked the end...
Farm expenditures hit record high
WASHINGTON — U.S. farm production expenditures totaled $260 billion in 2007, up 9.3 percent from the revised 2006 total of $238 billion.
Ag Encounter
Hundreds of fourth graders swarmed through the Lawrence County Fairgrounds Oct. 7-8 to get a glimpse of how agriculture affects everything from their shoes to their snacks.
Always a farmer at heart: Cattleman finds lifelong dream on Jefferson County hillsides
HAMMONDSVILLE, Ohio — Herman Howell leans off the gas pedal and lets the shadow of his F-250 creep across the ridge, barely moving along...
