Monthly Archives: October 2003
What’s up with my milk check?
From hundreds to thousands of dollars, producer price differential is hitting dairymen's pockets and balancing the dairy market.
Portage Co. puts SWCD up in lights
Headliner of the night was outstanding conservationist Congress Lake Farm.
From milking to museum, dairyman keeps on farming
It's been a lifetime since he helped his father deliver milk in Medina, yet Carl Abell has kept at the dairy business, from farming to fashioning a museum.
Farm Bureau reflects on past, honors present
Membership agreement from 1957 was one of oldest Farm Bureau items displayed atPortage County's annual meeting.
Mahoning County Farm Bureau gets 10 stars
Members hear news of possible dues increase; hand out scholarships to youth members.
Farm owners take first steps into new Pa. water plan
The state expects anyone who withdraws or uses more than an average of 10,000 gallons of water per day in a month to register a water source and withdrawal amounts.
Wrecking balls and wrecking lives
In this week's commentary, Editor Susan Crowell gives her take on various issues.
U.S. looks Down Under for joint lamb agreement
A decline in lamb consumption and sheep numbers worldwide is pushing representatives from the United States, Australia and New Zealand to explore ways to improve the U.S. market.
Dairy Excel: Compensating for poor feed quality
Tom Noyes offers tips on supplementing cow diets when you're short on hay.
Dairy Channel: Compensating for poor feed quality
What are you going to do for the next nine months until a new crop of haylage is available? Are you going to purchase dry hay and from where? OSU Extension dairy agent Tom Noyes gives some suggestions in this week's column.
