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Yearly Archives: 2005

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - A USDA report paints a rosy employment picture for college graduates in agricultural sciences and natural resources over the next five years.

WOOSTER, Ohio - A cereal rust, most problematic on wheat in the Pacific Northwest and lower central Plains states, has made a rare appearance in Ohio this year.

SALEM, Ohio - Ask most deer farmers and you'll hear the same thing: Back when he or she began deer farming, whether it was six or 16 years ago, there weren't many others around, but now it seems deer farms are everywhere.

SALEM, Ohio - A year and a half ago when six men sat down in a Geauga County farmhouse kitchen, they knew just what they wanted, but they didn't know how to achieve it.

MAGNOLIA, Ohio - When Carolyn Laughlin has a rough day at work, she just concentrates on getting home quickly.

SALEM, Ohio - Seven months after the USDA confirmed an inconclusive BSE test was not mad cow disease, a second test said otherwise.

IRONDALE, Ohio - The first summer twentysomething Harold "Jake" Sutton was on his own as a dairyman, he had the cows, the barn, the tractors.

SALEM, Ohio - The Ohio Department of Agriculture is saying one man's attempt at switching his granddaughter's slaughter-bound grand champion market hog for another was no accident.

ROMNEY, W.Va. - He wears a miniature gold wire whisk in his left earlobe. Clad in a stark white chef's jacket and homemade 'happy pants' -