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Your local USDA office may soon be your local federal courthouse
Alan Guebert considers what the the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling to overturn the Chevron deference means for the agriculture industry.
With a little hocus pocus, taxpayers pay for more crop insurance
Alan Guebert thinks federal crop insurance is beginning to look like federal dairy policy: arcane, costly and incomprehensible to all but the subsidized few.
Words matter … until they don’t
Alan Guebert dissects the practice of calling food products less-than-truthful names in hopes that less-informed eaters buy the sizzle rather than the fact.
Farm groups fed up with ag consolidation, checkoff corruption speak out
Leaders from the Ohio Farmers Union, Pennsylvania Farmers Union, Farm Action Fund and Buckeye Quality Beef Association gathered to speak publicly about the impact consolidation has had on their members.
Sycamore Valley Farm to host workshop on grazing
Sycamore Valley Farm will host the “MOOchas GRASSias Conservation Chat” on June 13 at 6 p.m. at Sycamore Valley Farms, 765 County Road 1775, Ashland.
Spice of life: Passion for peppers transforms Zanesville family farm
Thera and Nick Snyder run Ohi:yo Pepper Co., on Thera's family farm in Zanesville, where they grow a variety of hot pepper plants each year.
Russell Redding celebrates Pennsylvania Ag Literacy Week
Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding participated in Pennsylvania Ag Literacy Week from March 18-22 at Avon Grove Charter School in Chester County.
Pennsylvania seeks proposals for high-priority specialty crop grant funds
Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding is seeking proposals for $460,000 in 2024 Commonwealth Specialty Crop Block Grants for high-priority crops.
The growing disconnect between hard numbers and soft policy
Alan Guebert discusses the recently released 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture and how the numbers show a lack of change for small and medium-sized farms.
Ohio and Pennsylvania continue to lose farms, farmland
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia each lost farms since the last USDA Census of Agriculture, Ohio with a 2.3% loss, Pennsylvania with a 7.7% loss and West Virginia at 3.5%.
