Yearly Archives: 2008
Your clicks can benefit FFA
CAMDEN, N.J. -- Fall signals harvest season across the country. This year it also marks the kick-off of a national campaign to help support...
Ohio program: New cooperative targets farmers’ markets
PIKETON, Ohio — A new statewide cooperative has formed to address the business needs of farmers’ markets while raising their visibility with consumers interested...
No more livestock? Close manure storage carefully
Producers can convert earthen manure storage structures into ponds, pastures or cropland, but it takes planning.
Calves attacked on Pa. farm
SALEM, Ohio -- Three newborn Holstein calves have been skinned alive at a farm in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
During the past several weeks, farmer...
Ohio receives $99,000 grant to help farmers’ markets
PIKETON, Ohio -- Ohio farmers' markets and their vendors looking to boost their marketing efforts in providing fresh, local foods to consumers will receive...
Poultry litter can be valuable fertilizer
MANHATTAN, Kan. -- The high cost of fertilizer nutrients is convincing some producers to go to the birds. Poultry, that is.
More specifically, they...
Ohio’s old crop corn stocks are up from last year’s total
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio -- Ohio's old crop corn stocks in all positions Sept. 1 totaled 75.4 million bushels, 83 percent above the 41.3 million bushels...
Life doesn’t always go how we plan
To paraphrase the famous lines from Robert Burns' To a Mouse poem: The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
(If...
Send us your photos
We promise we're not using this page to shamelessly promote ourselves, although the gal smooching the cow here is a reporter at Farm and...
Think Pink In October
When National Breast Cancer Awareness Month rolls around in October, Sherry Robinson, writer for the St. Petersburg Times, rolls her eyes and wonders whether...
