Forestry chief visits Ohio
BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio - Across the road from the south edge of David Wilmot's Cuyahoga County farm is a new housing development sporting homes starting at $300,000.
PROGRESS: Calculated risk
PARKMAN, Ohio - Kevin O'Reilly wrote his first farm business plan in high school.
The Geauga County teen wanted to borrow $200 from his father to start a sweet corn enterprise, but before his dad would hand over the money, Kevin had to calculate his input and labor costs, create a sales plan and identify potential risks.
Farm marketing: Not a dirty word
ROMNEY, W.Va. - Marketing.
It's not a word that makes most farmers jump up and down or rush to get out of bed in the morning.
I think, therefore I CAN
ROMNEY, W.Va. - He wears a miniature gold wire whisk in his left earlobe.
Clad in a stark white chef's jacket and homemade 'happy pants' -
Parrish hog swap no accident, says state department of agriculture
SALEM, Ohio - The Ohio Department of Agriculture is saying one man's attempt at switching his granddaughter's slaughter-bound grand champion market hog for another was no accident.
PROGRESS: Grazing works for Sutton dairy
IRONDALE, Ohio - The first summer twentysomething Harold "Jake" Sutton was on his own as a dairyman, he had the cows, the barn, the tractors.
Conflicting results: Old ‘inconclusive’ may be BSE positive
SALEM, Ohio - Seven months after the USDA confirmed an inconclusive BSE test was not mad cow disease, a second test said otherwise.
PROGRESS: Farmers find their way with deer
MAGNOLIA, Ohio - When Carolyn Laughlin has a rough day at work, she just concentrates on getting home quickly.
PROGRESS: Geauga Family Farms: Farmers pave own future path
SALEM, Ohio - A year and a half ago when six men sat down in a Geauga County farmhouse kitchen, they knew just what they wanted, but they didn't know how to achieve it.
PROGRESS: Getting the real deal on deer
SALEM, Ohio - Ask most deer farmers and you'll hear the same thing: Back when he or she began deer farming, whether it was six or 16 years ago, there weren't many others around, but now it seems deer farms are everywhere.
