Yearly Archives: 2011
The Vegetable Supper Club has fresh ideas for veggies
MONACA, Pa. -- The Vegetable Supper Club, sponsored by Penn State Extension, is a workshop offering new ideas to increase the variety and improve the taste of vegetables.
Ohio livestock care board ready for outreach
With standards soon to become effective, communications events to begin.
Johns Hopkins researchers use Twitter to track health trends
By sorting these health-related tweets into electronic "piles," Mark Dredze and Michael J. Paul uncovered intriguing patterns about allergies, flu cases, insomnia, cancer, obesity, depression, pain and other ailments.
Pity the poor, misunderstood grain market speculator
The grain market needs speculators, but they are fickle. They will set a price to take a profit and liquidate. If there are a lot of them following some trading company's advice, the market can be adversely affected in a short time. They may even reverse positions, putting huge pressure on the market.
Ohio Sheep Day: Looking for new farming niche? Think sheep
Accelerated lambing could hold key to greater sheep profitability, and small farms in Midwest are poised to take advantage of opportunity.
Blue Heron Farm: Selling lambs year-round can work
It all started with 12 lambs Duane Miller brought home for his wife, Cynthia Koonce, to bottle feed and try to save and raise. In her kitchen. Today, she's raising sheep, all right -- 350 of them.
Is wheat straw worth something? Yes!
Be sure to know what nutrients you’re taking off that field.
Why is early castration of bull calves important?
By MICHELLE ARNOLDContributing writerIn the U.S., more than 17 million bulls are castrated yearly that range in age from 1 day to 1 year...
Reader: United Egg Producers agreement is ironic
Editor:In response to the July 7 article, United Egg Producers and HSUS announce agreement over hen housing, how ironic is it that on the...
NOAA: Strong El Niño could bring increased storm surges to U.S. East Coast
WASHINGTON — Coastal communities along the U.S. East Coast may be at risk to higher sea levels accompanied by more destructive storm surges in future El Niño years, according to a new study by NOAA.
