Yearly Archives: 2001
Mercer County Country Tour scheduled
The Sept. 15-16 drive-it-yourself tour will feature eight stops.
Lighten up: Ohio farm equipment law kicks in
Farmers who have multi-wheeled tractors are now required to display new lighting for traveling at night on streets or highways.
Fairfield County barn tour slated
The Sept. 22 event will focus on three renovated barns.
Call of the wild: N.H. lake lures man and beast
Included in the protected prime wildlife habitats that cover more than 7,700 acres along the shores of Lake Umbagog and the banks of the Magalloway and Androscoggin rivers are freshwater wetlands, floating islands of spruce and maple trees, lily pads and upland areas of balsam-scented spruce-fir forests.
Buckeye ingenuity: Caregiver adapts items to help elderly, disabled
Special Farm Science Review presentation shares ideas for make-your-own adaptive equipment.
Buckeye Egg neighbors awarded $19.2 million
A Licking County Common Pleas Court jury, after spending the weekend in deliberations, returned a verdict Sunday, Sept. 9, finding Buckeye Egg guilty of causing environmental damage, and awarded 21 area residents the damage judgment.
2001 Farm Science Review Schedule of Events
The 2001 Farm Science Review will be Sept. 18-20 at the Molly Caren Agricultural Center near New London, Ohio, with a full schedule of events each of the three days.
“Ponds with a Purpose”: Review hosts daily farm pond clinic
The one-hour clinic will show how ponds work and the best ways to manage them. The goal: To help pond owners head off problems and, in the end, save money.
Farm family diversifies to stay afloat
When Paul and Lois Saums' two sons, David and Doug, decided to come back to the farm in 1984, diversification became a necessity. The operation now farms hogs, grain, Christmas trees, pumpkins, broilers, etc.
Appetite for ethanol fermenting in Pa.
Questions that involve developing ethanol production in Pennsylvania and the Northeast were on the table late last month with a pair of "Ethanol Workshops for Rural America" sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Regional Biomass Energy Program, and organized by Ethanol Producers and Consumers.
