Yearly Archives: 2013
Pa. Farm Bureau honors western Pa. teacher
Sharon Baillie, who teaches classes in family and consumer sciences at the Burgettstown Middle/High School, uses agriculture as the foundation of numerous lessons.
Cover crop ‘interseeder’ can save time, trips across field
Penn State's Cover Crop Interseeder and Applicator plants cover crops, at the same time applying fertilizer or herbicide. This lets farmers seed cover crops into corn long before the corn is harvested.
Get ready: It is perch season!
Yellow perch season starts now. No, there’s nothing official, nothing listed in the regulations books, nothing posted near launch ramps, no opening day or...
Ag Progress Days unveils new ‘resource centers’
Pennsylvania's Ag Progress Days concludes this afternoon. But research and development on the topics will continue.
Survey gives a glimpse into northeastern Ohio’s dairy future
More than 78% of the dairy farms surveyed in northeastern Ohio plan to continue to operate during the next five years, despite the many challenges facing dairy operations.
Utica and Marcellus shale update: Belmont County leads Ohio in drilling permits in July
Belmont leads Ohio for the number of drilling permits issued in July. Drilling is ramping up as pipelines continue to be constructed.
A duck stamp for every hunter and every birder
At $15, a “Duck Stamp” is arguably the best investment a conservationist can make. More formally called the “Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation...
The awe-inspiring circle of life
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
— Carl Sandburg
By Judith Sutherland
Farm and Dairy columnist
When I was a newlywed 30 years...
Fordson tractors were loved beyond U.S. borders
The first of Henry Ford’s long anticipated farm tractors rolled off the Dearborn assembly line more than 90 years ago on Oct. 8, 1917....
Be on time
My parents were very insistent that wherever we were going we should be on time. They set the example, and we learned by it.
There...
