Monthly Archives: July 2009
Pig breeders gear up for Pennsylvania performance tested swine sale
FURNACE, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Livestock Evaluation Center's Swine testing program is finishing this year's program and getting ready for their annual sale Eligible...
Learn to manage your manure: Ohio State University can help
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Learn the best ways to manage manure, use it on your land and know if you're doing it right at Ohio...
Hazard A Guess: Week of July 9, 2009
Item No. 867
Still no guesses on Item No. 867, so we'll show it again. Jason Michaels of Mercer, Pa., submitted the item. He knows...
Penn State Cooperative Ext. names interim director
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Cooperative Extension has named Dennis Calvin interim director effective July 1. Calvin, who has been associate director since...
Group takes new look at food safety
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Biden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announce suggestions for upgrading the food...
Is solar power in your future?
WARREN, Ohio -- Have you been wondering if solar technology could work for you on your farm or in your home? Then a trip...
Judge pony by character, not its past
"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." --Sir Winston Churchill
I never would have...
Wisconsin Farm Technology Days celebrates farming and the farmer
Waterloo, Wisc. -- The 2009 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days will be held July 21 through July 23 and will feature technology and tradition. Event...
Crops recovering, but yields will remain a mystery
The tally for losses from a June hail storm and recent heavy rainfall is not yet known.
After Fourth of July, summer flies by
Once the Fourth of July is history, the rest of the summer seems to break all speed records in racing toward the end of...
