Monthly Archives: March 2011
Will all tomorrow’s farms be organic?
Families, careers, whole lives take turns that are completely unpredictable. I mean, one minute you’re looking out the window of your third-floor college dorm...
Thorbahn honored with Ohio Holstein Association Distinguished Service Award
CARROLLTON, Ohio -- Neither the 6 inches of snow nor high water road closings could keep Holstein breeders from traveling to sunny southwest Ohio...
Sunoco to pay $99,000 for petroleum discharge into southwest Pa.’s Turtle Creek
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Sunoco has agreed to pay a $99,000 settlement in lieu of fines and civil damages to the Pennsylvania Fish and...
Gene Cooper Farms: Change is the only constant at this growing Pa. grain...
The Gene Cooper Farms started out with capacity for 25,000 bushels. Today, it has more than 300,000 bushel total capacity.
Ohio Farm Bureau presidents talk ag policy at Capitol
Economy, energy and EPA a few of the early Ohio Farm Bureau topics in D.C.
Kasich announces cuts in ag department, Extension, ag research
Ohio Gov. John Kasich's proposed biennium budget includes a 9 percent cut in the general funding to the Ohio Department of Agriculture, and cuts of 10 percent to OSU Extension and 10 percent to the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in fiscal year 2012.
For the bay: Conewago Creek may hold key for cleaning up Chesapeake
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — As Pennsylvania streams go, Conewago Creek in Dauphin, Lebanon and Lancaster counties is really nothing special.But it could hold the...
Farrier, limb length disparity clinic planned at Penn State
Penn State Equine Extension and the Pennsylvania Professional Farriers Association will be hosting an event May 28 to educate farriers, veterinarians and horse owners...
Extension creates marketing tool to help make farms more profitable
HECTOR, N. Y. — Matthew Glenn would rather spend his time growing vegetables than selling vegetables. That is why the Finger Lakes region grower...
Research sheds more light on fat digestibility, diet formulation for pigs
URBANA, Ill. — Producers and feed companies add fat to swine diets to increase energy, but recent research from the University of Illinois suggests...
