Wednesday, September 25, 2024

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.

More than 260 Percheron and Belgian draft horses changed owners at the 44th Eastern States Draft Horse Sale Feb.

BIG PRAIRIE, Ohio - These days, niche marketing is a popular buzz word. For Joseph and Marion Yoder, it is a way of life.

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.

COLUMBUS - The 2006 Ohio Pork Congress held in Columbus, Feb. 8 attracted many visitors and honored Ohio's pork industry standouts.

WASHINGTON - The 2006 Conservation Security Program sign-up is now through March 31. In Ohio, the

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.

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.

ENON VALLEY, Pa. - For Ed Nicol, breeding cattle is more than just throwing the bull in with the cows.

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.