Yearly Archives: 2011
Pa. FFA members can win stipend to attend national institute
MOUNTVILLE, Pa. -- The Pennsylvania Young Farmers Association is offering a stipend for qualified FFA students to attend the National Young Farmer Educational Association (NYFEA) Institute to be held in Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 7-10.
Penn State webinars explore business opportunities in Marcellus Shale
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A series of web-based seminars aimed at helping local businesses prosper from natural-gas drilling and development will be offered this fall by Penn State Extension's Marcellus Educational Consortium.
So you want to start a vineyard …
Reality check: N.Y. numbers show it takes about $18,000 per acre to establish a vineyard.
Can you spare a bale?
Hay assistance is necessary in order for Texas cattlemen to survive.
Online classes for beginning farmers now open for enrollment
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Northeast Beginning Farmer Project will offer seven online courses this fall, including four new topics, to help you continue your farming education.
The argument that won’t go away: Farm subsidies are making us fat
I'm not buying the argument that farm subsidies are the major villain. If you want to oppose farm subsidies, that's fine. Just don't do it hiding behind an overweight person.
Worse crop conditions, better prices
It's a seller's market: Don't look back at $7 corn and $14 beans and wonder why you didn't sell those numbers going into harvest!
A ride back in time is needed to know how a skill from past...
A Chagrin Falls man makes his living the old fashioned way; as a blacksmith.
Scarecrow contest entries will be displayed along Ohio River
VEVAY, Ind. -- The convention and visitor bureaus in Jefferson, Ohio and Switzerland counties are teaming up to provide a multi-county scarecrow contest this fall.
Rita K. Kibler
CONNEAUT, Ohio -- Rita K. Kibler, 57, died at 3:40 a.m. Aug. 23 at her residence. She was born June 30, 1954 in Conneaut,...
