Monthly Archives: January 2014
Consistency can pay for itself in cattle business
Cattle ranchers who stuck with their program are likely well-situated in 2014.
Ag’s budget math favors crop insurance
Claims of food stamp fraud just don't match up with reality.
Pony riding was a fun, but sometimes wild experience
Part II of my pony experience as a child.
Pa. Farm Show ‘Today’s Agriculture’ exhibit exposes what really happens on farms today
The words under the Today's Agriculture logo are sage: "Opening the Doors: Farming, Knowledge, Trust." Being transparent about what goes on in our barns goes a long way to earning consumers' trust.
Perdue closing chicken plant in Fredericksburg, Pa.
Perdue is closing a chicken production plant in Fredericksburg, Pa., and its related distribution center in Denver, Pa.
Video contest open to teams of local high school students
Teams of high school students in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties, in Ohio, and Lawrence and Mercer counties, in Pa., are invited to participate in a regional Student Video Contest sponsored by the Oh-Penn Manufacturing Collaborative.
New shale webinar series begins Jan. 16
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Extension’s Marcellus Shale Gas Education Team will present two web-based seminars this month.The first, Jan. 16 from 1-2...
2014: The year of the #felfie or the #farmerselfie?
In Europe, they call them #felfies, a play on the 2013 word of the year "selfie." On this side of the pond, we call them #farmerselfies. Whatever you call them, we love seeing the real faces of agriculture! Send in yours!
Conservation workshop geared toward small farms
The first in a series of conservation workshops for small farms will be offered from 9 a.m. until noon Jan. 30 at the Happy Days Lodge in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 500 W. Streetsboro St., (state Route 303), Peninsula, Ohio.
Ohio muzzleloader hunters bag more than 16,000 deer
Ohio hunters braved record-setting cold temperatures and howling winds to harvest 16,464 white-tailed deer during the state's four-day muzzleloader season, Jan. 4-7, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
