Will you shop or drop Wal-Mart?
COLUMBUS - Low prices draw hoards of customers to stores like Wal-Mart. But these falling prices often hit smaller, neighboring stores hard, knocking them out of the retail race. The impact makes winners of the superstore and its customers, and losers of smaller retailers, wholesalers and Wal-Mart workers.
Draft horses have made a comeback in rural U.S.
More than 260 Percheron and Belgian draft horses changed owners at the 44th Eastern States Draft Horse Sale Feb.
Farming a little bit of everything
BIG PRAIRIE, Ohio - These days, niche marketing is a popular buzz word. For Joseph and Marion Yoder, it is a way of life.
Ohio Agro Bio-Security office is open
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - The new Agro Bio-Security office at the Ohio Department of Agriculture will develop, coordinate and implement security procedures to be used in the event of an emergency.
Ohio pork council salutes Bayes, Ott and Strickler
COLUMBUS - The 2006 Ohio Pork Congress held in Columbus, Feb. 8 attracted many visitors and honored Ohio's pork industry standouts.
Ohio, Pa., and W.Va. watersheds in ’06 CSP
Organic dairy workshop set March 3
COLUMBUS - Wisconsin dairy farmer and author Gary Zimmer will lead a one-day intensive workshop on organic dairy production March 3, 2006, at the Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware, Ohio.
White House Fruit Farm is finalist national honor
SOUTHAMPTON, Mass. - For the second year in a row, White House Fruit Farm in Canfield, Ohio, was honored as a finalist for the Outstanding Farm Market of the Year by the North American Farmers' Direct Marketing Association.
Desire to learn never ends for Lawrence Co. beef producer
ENON VALLEY, Pa. - For Ed Nicol, breeding cattle is more than just throwing the bull in with the cows.
Pa. manure regs fire up industry
SALEM, Ohio - Recently proposed regulations would require Pennsylvania's manure haulers and their employees to be certified and, in some cases, for the owner to be on-site during all applications.