Thursday, October 31, 2024

JACKSON, Miss. - In 2004, the No. 1 cause of accidental deaths on farms among Farm Bureau members in Mississippi was drowning in farm ponds.

FARGO, N.D. - Farm trucks are involved in accidents, on and off the road, every year, but the numbers go up at harvest time.

OPICO, El Salvador - In 1989, Gilberto Mancia left war-torn El Salvador to work in the United States building and repairing air conditioning units.

BOSTON - Scientists are reporting an advance toward turning corn plants into natural factories for producing gelatin to replace animal-sourced gelatin widely used by the pharmaceutical industry for manufacturing capsules and tablets.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - The 10 producers who registered the most Angus beef cattle in the state of Ohio recorded a total of 2,205 Angus with the

MERCER, Pa. - Digging fence post holes is often one of the least favorite jobs on the farm. But brothers John and David McCullough gladly do it - and they dig a lot of them - just so they can farm.

SALEM, Ohio - Some Ohio farmers will take to the roads Oct. 19 in "fast tractors" with a new law to protect them and a new symbol to identify them.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Sheep breeders from Ohio and western Pennsylvania earned several top honors at the Keystone International Livestock Exposition held earlier this month in Harrisburg, Pa.

SULLIVAN, Ohio - Boy Scouts turned painters? That's what happened recently to the scouts from Wellington Troop No.

WASHINGTON - National Farmers Union has more than doubled the acres enrolled in the organization's Carbon Credit Program.