Share your fair memories
Last year you told us stories of romance, pranks, family bonding and missteps. What will you come up with this year?
Since we know you still have countless fair memories to share with us, we're again inviting readers to send us their favorite county fair stories and pictures.
Sugar Creek farmersGet late spring nitrate test help free
WOOSTER, Ohio - Take the guesswork out of fertilizing corn with a late spring nitrate test, which shows how much nitrogen a field needs or not, ensures the crop is fed enough, and prevents unnecessary applications.
Hay bale fires can cost farmers plenty
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Fires that damage or destroy hay and barns - resulting in building replacement, feed replacement and lost revenues - cost area farmers thousands of dollars each year.
Nurseries take lead in environmental stewardship
COLUMBUS - Housing development looms just on the other side of the fences of Acorn Farms, a 24-year-old wholesale container nursery in Galena, Ohio.
Sheep handling facilities make work easier on the flock and shepherd
Within the past 10 years a great interest in sheep handling facilities has developed in this country.
Small swine breeders should vaccinate
MANHATTAN, Kan. - Commercial swine producers are not the only producers who should be concerned with diseases entering their herds.
The hardest farm decision involves everyone
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - If farmers hope to keep their operations in the family and running successfully, they better start talking.
Supreme Court upholds checkoff
WASHINGTON - A U.S. Supreme Court ruling May 23 determined the beef checkoff is not unconstitutional.
