Monthly Archives: November 2012
Ohio Shale conference: Residents take time to learn how shale boom will impact them
•••••In the Nov. 15 edition of the Farm and Dairy it was reportedthat all of the Marcellus shale wells fracked in the past five...
Beaver County landowner ordered to pay $137,000 for disturbing wetlands
Contact the Department of Environmental Protection before disturbing a wetland, creek or stream. A Beaver County man learned how costly it can be not to call them.
Expert revising Ohio’s phosphorus index to improve water quality
COLUMBUS -- Grand Lake St. Marys has lost an estimated $60-80 million in tourism due to harmful algae blooms. And in 2011, algae blooms covered 990 square miles of Lake Erie's surface area, the largest in the lake's history.
Florida school credits aquaculture curriculum with raising grades
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Add middle and high school students to the growing list of Floridians learning about aquaculture, a relatively new industry but one...
Ohio victims of Hurricane Sandy eligible for lower interest rates
Residents across Ohio impacted by damaging winds and severe weather caused by Hurricane Sandy could be eligible for emergency assistance in the form of reduced interest rates on loans under Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel's Renew Ohio & Rebuild Ohio Programs.
Goat, sheep webinars to educate farmers on drought, nutrition
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue Extension will present two webinars to educate goat and sheep farmers on feeding practices following the drought, managing forage...
Turkey will cost more at most Thanksgiving Day dinner tables
That Thanksgiving turkey dinner with all the fixin's will cost a teensy bit more than last year: 28 cents.
Increase in allergies not from being too clean, but less microbial contact
LONDON -- A new scientific report out Oct. 3 from the International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene dismantles the myth that the epidemic rise...
Rural food deserts?
WOOSTER, Ohio -- "Food deserts" are normally thought of as low-income, blighted urban neighborhoods with little access to fresh, reasonably priced fruits and vegetables....
The best of quality-quest averages $2,340
BELOIT, Ohio -- Here are the results of the registered Holsteins sold from the Doug and Marty Dye and family at the Best of...
