Monthly Archives: June 2005
WTO negotiations behind schedule
WASHINGTON - Despite progress on agriculture, World Trade Organization negotiations remain behind schedule and require considerable, difficult work, especially in the next few months, to achieve an agreement, Congress' investigative agency reports.
Slugs munching their way across Ohio
LANCASTER, Ohio - According to OSU state entomology specialists Ron Hammond and Bruce Eisley, reports of slug feeding are being received from various parts of Ohio.
Pork checkoff case sent back to lower court
DES MOINES, Iowa - The Supreme Court of the United States has set aside a lower court ruling declaring the pork checkoff unconstitutional and returned the case to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
Pa.’s dairy development program grows
HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Pa. Department of Agriculture is expanding its Dairy Profit Team Program, carried out through the department's Center for Dairy Excellence.
One farm, one operator? Not on the largest farms
WASHINGTON - The high average age of primary operators on U.S. farms - 56 years in 2002 - has led to concern about the future of farming.
Get help paying for scrapie genotype
DENVER - The American Sheep Industry Association is cooperating with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to help sheep producers, who are interested, have their rams genotyped for scrapie susceptibility/resistance.
Fifteen days of rain in May, but fewer inches tallied
MILLPORT, Ohio - It sure seemed like we got more rain in May than Ed Copeland recorded in southern Columbiana County.
Burnhams Orchard hosts tour June 29
COLUMBUS - The Ohio Fruit Growers Society will hold its summer tour June 29, 2005, at Burnhams Orchard, 8019 state Route 113, Berlin Heights, Ohio.
PROGRESS: Growing sweet and slow
SUGARCREEK, Ohio - Generation by generation, cow by cow, barn by barn, the Deetz family farm has morphed into a sprawling, successful operation in Ohio's dairy corridor.
PROGRESS: Garlic packs a strong profitability punch
SALEM, Ohio - Curried coconut shrimp, teriyaki steak wraps and stuffed portobello mushrooms. What's similar? They all call for garlic, and as more cooks are adding it to their recipes, more farmers are adding it to their fields.
