Monthly Archives: March 2006
College aims to shape future of farming
ALFRED, N.Y. - Alfred State College will help shape the future of family farming with the development of its new Centennial Farm.
Checkoff analysis of USDA price data
DES MOINES, Iowa - A checkoff-funded analysis of USDA price data shows fewer hogs sold through daily negotiated transactions (the spot market) during January 2006 than during previous years, although the prices of more than half the hogs in the U.
Farm makes most of forage, genetics
SAEGERTOWN, Pa. - In 1983, when Dick Byham kept his boss's daughter out past her curfew, he thought for sure he'd be fired.
Ohio Fresh Eggs ordered to destroy 4.3 million eggs at Croton facility
SALEM, Ohio -Ohio Fresh Eggs in Croton, Ohio, has been ordered to destroy approximately 4.3 million eggs deemed unfit for human consumption.
Farming is funny
RAGERSVILLE, Ohio - Farming isn't always a side-splitting, gut-busting, fall-off-your-chair-laughing experience.
Israel struggles with its ag future
(Note: Farm and Dairy Editor Susan Crowell is traveling with an Ohio agricultural trade mission to Israel.
Surprise ties together generations
I awoke, slightly bleary-eyed from not nearly enough sleep, and headed for the kitchen one morning last week.
Evidence of AWB selling U.S. grain to corrupt nations is too much to ignore
A month ago this space outlined the ongoing Australian probe of AWB Ltd., that nation's single-desk wheat exporter, and the nearly $215 million in kickbacks and bribes it paid to Iraqi officials to keep Aussie wheat flowing into Iraq between 1999 and the U.
Making the Bee; Removing the Sting
A few weeks ago, my eighth grader casually mentioned that she was one of two representatives from her classroom in the school spelling bee.
A mug of high fat might not kill you
Look, I just don't know if I can stomach the path this nation is taking one more day. What kind of world do we live in when a down-on-his-luck panhandler has to say, "Pardon me, brother.
