This year will be a ‘whole new world’
SHREVE, Ohio - How would you like to get $26.80 a hundredweight for your milk, a dairy expert asked a group of farmers in Shreve, Ohio.
Vet goes ‘back to the basics’
SHREVE, Ohio - Almost 20 years ago, on a sweltering July afternoon, veterinarian Paul Dettloff made an emergency stop at a Wisconsin farm.
Farm Bureau president says farmers must speak up before others do
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - America's farmers and ranchers have an obligation to provide input on farm program changes before outside forces do it for them, American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman said during his address at the American Farm Bureau Federation's 87th annual meeting in Nashville, where about 6,500 Farm Bureau members gathered.
Pork producers hope for ‘three-peat’
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - If hog producers enjoy a third consecutive year of profit as projected, accumulated earnings are going to be large enough to encourage further expansion.
Using plants to clean polluted soils
PIKETON, Ohio - With gardens and fields of sweet corn, berries and other horticulture-related plots dotting the grounds of Ohio State University's South Centers at Piketon, it would be easy to dismiss the dozen scraggly-looking potted plants sitting alone in one of the facility's greenhouses.
You can’t just sling it anywhere
COLUMBUS - Livestock producers who apply manure in the winter need to know it's not business as usual.
Obituary: Edwin Copeland
MILLPORT, Ohio - After nearly 50 years of observing Columbiana County's weather and many years of reporting it to Farm and Dairy, Edwin Copeland will no longer be at the Millport 2 N.
Program certifies noxious weed-free hay
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A niche hay and straw market promises higher profits for Indiana growers, if they can leave one essential ingredient out of each bale.
Carroll County cows captured on canvas
CARROLLTON, Ohio - There are some Holsteins, an Angus, a Shorthorn and, yes, even the cow that jumped over the moon.
