Monthly Archives: August 2005
Making memories at your family reunion
Every person should have at least one breathless, wide-eyed memory of summer.
Leaping off a sun bleached wooden dock; casting a line into an icy clear Midwestern lake; clinging blindly to an out-of-control paddle boat with the sickening realization that you are heading straight for a monstrously large shoreline poison ivy patch.
Summer Farm Tour Series: Visit organic dairy farm Aug. 6
COLUMBUS - The annual Farm Tour Series is intended to foster sustainable food systems in Ohio.
The 2005 series offers farmers and the general public a unique opportunity to visit a wide range of organic and sustainable farming operations throughout Ohio.
Show names top Pa. Angus breeders
HUNTINGDON, Pa. - Exhibitors led 112 entries at the 2005 Pennsylvania Angus Breeders' Show July 7-9 in Huntingdon, Pa.
Ohio youth excels at Hereford expo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Hereford steers came from near and far to compete in the sixth annual Junior National Hereford Expo in Milwaukee, Wis.
Ohio may see record wheat yields
WOOSTER, Ohio - A cool spring and low disease levels have set the stage for potential record-breaking wheat yields in Ohio.
Nearly 75 percent believe beef checkoff caused positive growth
DENVER - Beef producers continue to voice support for the national beef checkoff program, according to a recently completed independent survey.
Lehman tops Pa. Holstein show
MEADVILLE, Pa. -
Emerald ash borer found in Delaware Co.
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - The emerald ash borer, a destructive exotic insect from Asia, was found in an ash tree south of Delaware in Delaware County, Ohio.
Beef prices will drop for both farmer and consumer as Canadian cattle arrive
URBANA, Ill. - The party is over for U.S. beef producers.
With the Canadian border opened to live beef cattle, more cattle in the feedlot pipelines, and more heifers saved back to increase the size of the brood cow herd, "some would say the party is over for high cattle prices," said Purdue University Extension marketing specialist Chris Hurt said.
The Train Gang
OHIO Wagon Train, with its 23 pioneer wagons and 50 horse-riding scouts, rumbled into Randolph, Ohio, the last week of July for its annual event.
