Monthly Archives: July 2009
Northwest PA honors ag educators
CONNEAUT LAKE, Pa. -- The 2009 Pennsylvania Association of Agricultural Educators Conference was held July 13-16 at the Conneaut Lake Park Hotel in northwestern...
Climate change study foresees a warmer, wetter Pennsylvania
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A Penn State study of climate-change impacts in Pennsylvania projects a warmer, wetter commonwealth, with a longer growing season and...
Honey might need country-of-origin labeling
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is soliciting comments on its interim final rule for country-of-origin labeling of honey. USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service...
Morrow farm owner donates easement
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio -- Morrow County residents Robert and Marilyn Weiler preserved their 38-acre farm for agricultural use by donating an agricultural easement to the...
Virgil Gasser farm a highlight of WCDSU Twilight Tour
CRESTON, Ohio -- No farmer should have to go through one barn fire, let alone two, but that is just one of the challenges...
Horsemen left out of legislation
GROVE CITY, Ohio -- Gov. Strickland's legislative directive regarding VLT's at Ohio's seven racetracks as well as the budget bill passed by both Houses...
Dairy Farmers of America issues $9.5 million to assist members
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Dairy Farmers of America, Inc.'s board of directors has approved a special cash payment to members in an effort to...
Millions in direct loans available to farmers and producers
WEST SALEM, Wis. -- Seven hundred and sixty million dollars from the Supplemental Appropriations Act signed by President Obama is available for approved but...
Ohio cheese maker earns three medals at festival
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio -- Buckeye Grove Farm Cheese of Beallsville, Ohio, earned three medals at the 2009 North American Regional Jersey Cheese Awards on the...
Guernsey sale has $59,000 top seller
RICHARDSON, Texas — Thirty females averaged $5,003 in the 2009 National Guernsey Convention Sale, held July 12 in Richardson, Texas.
Sixty-five total embryos averaged...
