Yearly Archives: 2008
Ohio Holstein wins national award
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — An Ohio Holstein is the first to win the Holstein Association USA’s new award, Star of the Breed.
First winner
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Small wind energy showcased at Munnell Run Farm
MERCER, Pa. — The Mercer County Conservation District and the Munnell Run Farm Foundation Inc. will co-host another information session on small wind energy...
Markets plagued by volatility
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Calf prices will be highly influenced by volatile feed prices as well as bullish finished cattle prices, said a Purdue...
Plan to walk at Farm Science Review
LONDON, Ohio — Be sure to bring your walking shoes for Ohio State University’s Farm Science Review Sept. 16-18 at the Molly Caren Agricultural...
Export boom creating box shortage
WASHINGTON — While the declining value of the U.S. dollar is good news for U.S. exports in general, the weaker dollar is making U.S....
It’s about time: Spring finally here
Every spring, this column is committed to bring you in poetry the scent of hyacinths as you read once again the advice of an...
Head to the field and assess your wheat
WOOSTER, Ohio — Spring is here and that means it’s time for Ohio wheat growers to head to the fields to assess their crop...
Rodale fights global warming with farms
KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Timothy J. LaSalle took over as CEO of the Rodale Institute with a mission: to tell the world that a practical solution...
Pa. winter weather was wetter this year
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — April showers supposedly bring May flowers. But what will spring bring this year, after what seemed to be an unusually...
Ohioans probe herbicide-tolerant crops
COSHOCTON, Ohio — In a four-year study, researchers at the USDA-ARS’s North Appalachian Experimental Watershed near Coshocton, Ohio, compared relative losses of both herbicide...
