Yearly Archives: 2014
Hord Livestock focuses on ‘feeding families’
Crawford County farm uses technology, innovation to help bring pork and beef to the table.
Sweet corn fields provides growth opportunity for Akron students
22 students from the New Frontier Academy are getting lessons in marketing and hard work this summer.
Hopeway Dairy Farm: Always looking to the farm’s future
Hopeway Dairy has built their dream barns from the ground up.
Research suggests antimicrobial edible films inhibit pathogens in meat
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Antimicrobial agents incorporated into edible films that are applied to foods to seal in flavor, freshness and color can improve...
Cost-share help for Ohio’s honeybees
COLUMBUS — Ohio farmers rely on bees to pollinate more than 70 crops, but 50 to 80 percent of the honeybees raised by Ohio’s...
How-to videos now available for beginning fish farmers
A new set of how-to videos that teach beginning aquaculturists the ins and outs of fish farming is now available online.
Soil bacteria may provide clues to curbing antibiotic resistance
ST. LOUIS — Drug-resistant bacteria annually sicken 2 million Americans and kill at least 23,000. A driving force behind this growing public health threat...
Commentary: Will activists’ drones spy on farms?
An activist wants to use drones to take aerial photographs of “factory farms,” or as he puts it, “to expose what some corporations want to keep hidden.”
Buying a gas well? Be aware of liabilities
COLUMBUS — Landowners who take ownership of gas wells on their property need to make sure the benefits outweigh the financial liabilities, according to...
Market outlook: Great weather, slipping grain prices
Prices continue to slip lower on the Chicago Board of Trade as the traders get the impression that the weather is perfect and that...
