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Monthly Archives: May 2007

HILLSBORO, Ohio - The first of two Ohio Cattlemen's Association Seedstock Improvement Sales had a standing-room only crowd at Union Stock Yards' new sale facility in Hillsboro, Ohio, April 14.

WOODBURY, Minn. - Ever get a soil test result for potassium that looked a little odd? You're not alone, said T.

WASHINGTON - All pork producers are ready and willing to comply with new federal water-quality regulations regardless of whether they are required to obtain federal discharge permits, the National Pork Producers Council said in testimony submitted to a congressional subcommittee looking into agriculture's effects on water quality.

WASHINGTON - If conservation of soil organic matter is taken into account, the United States at best has to cut in half the amount of cornstalks that can be harvested to produce ethanol, according to an Agricultural Research Service study.

WASHINGTON - March 2007 was more than 5 degrees F warmer than average throughout the contiguous U.S.

AMES, Iowa - Irradiation of produce could be a possible solution to outbreaks of E. coli, said an Iowa State University professor.

NEW CASTLE, Pa. - When the firefighters pulled up to the scene, the fire had grown from a small hay fire to a full barn fire.

SALEM, Ohio - Farm and Dairy staff members earned three awards in the

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - How do you determine when to harvest steers that have been on feed? That's a tough question to answer with a real specific guideline, according to Eldon Cole, University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist located in Mount Vernon.

WERNERSVILLE, Pa. - As concerned citizens celebrated Earth Day April 22, to focus attention on efforts to conserve natural resources, a new nonprofit organization to save farmland is being launched in Berks County, according to its president, Victoria Kintzer.