Chinese growers provide solution to watermelon diseases and nematodes
CHARLESTON, S.C. - For years, South Carolina peach growers have planted grafted trees, the union of fruit wood to rootstock that is resistant to soilborne diseases and nematodes.
Cows that work: Genetic priorities
WOOSTER, Ohio - Many beef producers struggle with priorities when it comes to genetic selection. One part of them knows the market rewards a focus on the end product.
Death by soybeans: Cattle fatalities caused by acute rumen acidosis
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Twelve cattle on a southern Indiana farm died of a condition called grain overload, which caused acute rumen acidosis, according preliminary findings of Purdue University veterinarians.
Farm ponds sources of water, danger
JACKSON, Miss. - In 2004, the No. 1 cause of accidental deaths on farms among Farm Bureau members in Mississippi was drowning in farm ponds.
Farm truck accidents can be avoided
FARGO, N.D. - Farm trucks are involved in accidents, on and off the road, every year, but the numbers go up at harvest time.
It doesn’t get much uglier than this
TAMPA, Fla. - Magic mirror, on the wall, whose tomato is ugliest of all? With so many ugly entries to its Ugly Tomato Contest, Santa Sweets couldn't pick just one and instead decided to award 10 prizes for some of the most unsightly tomatoes that make their famous Uglyripes look pretty good.
Safe and sound: Nearly 200 years after construction, a barn is restored to the...
The year was 1838. Martin Van Buren was president, Michigan had just become a state, the Civil War was still over 20 years in the future and the cornerstone of my barn was placed.
U.S. corn harvest largest on record
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - U.S. farmers are on pace for the largest corn crop on record, as growers expect to harvest the most corn acres for grain since 1933.
Warm winter a blessing and a curse
WASHINGTON - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters are calling for above-average temperatures over most of the country and a continuation of drier-than-average conditions across already drought-stricken parts of the Southwest and Southeast in its winter outlook for the United States.
Ohio farmers opposed to power line running through their cropland
GEAUGA COUNTY, Ohio - Farmers in Montville, Thompson and Huntsburg townships are wired about CEI/FirstEnergy's determination to run transmission lines through crops and woodlands just east of state Route 528.
