Monthly Archives: April 2008
Speaker: It’s time to address anxiety about food now
ARLINGTON, Va. — “Come out of your silo and begin a dialog with your customers and suppliers,” said consultant Kevin Murphy of Food-Chain Communications,...
U.S. ag equipment exports up in ’07
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — U.S. exports of agricultural-related machinery totaled more than $8.2 billion dollars in 2007, an increase of more than 13 percent compared...
From fish tanks to gas tanks, algae capable of producing alternative fuel
BOZEMAN, Mont. — The same brown algae that cover rocks and cause anglers to slip while fly fishing contain oil that can be turned...
Capture life on the farm in photography
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Agriculture is encouraging Ohioans to dust off their cameras and begin capturing “Life on the Farm” for...
If it flooded once, it’ll flood again
ST. LOUIS — Midwesterners have to be wondering: Will April be the cruelest month?Patterns in the Midwest this spring are eerily reminiscent of 1993,...
Sure, they’re cute, but those rascally rabbits are a pain
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Rabbits can be both living decor and a nibbling pest in home landscapes.“They’re a perennial problem because of the wide variety...
Look for alternatives before applying garden pesticide
URBANA, Ill. — Hand-in-hand with the gardening season come attacks by pests, said a University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator.“The question often becomes ‘to...
Hazard A Guess: Week of April 10, 2008
Hello from Hazard!
Faithful Hazard-ite Joseph Betz of Library, Pa., was the only one to proffer a guess on Item No. 829.
He has something similar...
Stop ‘captive supplies’ in farm bill
Guest CommentaryBy George Chambers
BILLINGS, Mont. — My parents, wife and I are the fifth- and sixth-generation owners of 27 Cattle Co., in Carrollton, Ga....
Farmers wrestle with planting decisions
COLUMBUS — High soybean prices and low input costs won out over the demand for ethanol production in U.S. farmers’ decisions to plant more...
