Monthly Archives: February 2009
Farmers fault Congress and stimulus for failure to confront dairy crisis
WASHINGTON -- The Dairy Subcommittee of the National Family Farm Coalition hosted a press teleconference outlining the dire crisis in the dairy industry due...
Consumers may no longer be paying attention to peanut product recall
COLUMBUS -- Despite continual updates of products involved in the widespread peanut product recall, consumers may no longer be paying attention, according to a...
Watch love grow
SALEM, Ohio -- Anyone can give chocolate for Valentine's Day, but now there's a vegetable that allows you to declare your undying devotion.
The I...
Pennsylvania Auctioneers Association honors award winners at annual conference
ELYSBURG, Pa. -- More than 250 auctioneers, apprentices, support personnel, vendors and guests attended and participated in the 61st annual conference and trade show...
Hazard A Guess: Week of Feb. 5, 2009
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Made it to Christmas! A plebe’s life
(Editor's note: Weston Boose, a 4-H'er from rural Norwalk, Ohio, and son of Terry and Mary Lisa Boose, is starting college life at the...
China hogs all the pork imports
DENVER — China’s overseas purchases and imports of pork and pork products in calendar year 2008 were unprecedented for any single country in history,...
Gary Vermeer
Gary Vermeer, 90, founder and chairman emeritus of Vermeer Corporation in Pella, Iowa, died Feb. 2, 2009, at the Comfort House of Pella.
Born...
Daisy finds one playin’ possum
A few years ago on a cold winter night, Daisy, my yellow Lab, and I took a walk in the woods after a snow...
Under water reader
Here's another good one from the Farm and Dairy files. In 2001, Mike Semchee took his paper and went scuba diving in the Atlantic...
