Saturday, September 21, 2024

At the close of 1998, John and Wendy Cooper made the toughest decision of their young lives: to sell their top-producing dairy herd, replacement animals, farm equipment, tractors and even the forage and feed inventory.

New Ohio law creates the ability for local or state agencies to acquire agricultural easements for the purpose of protecting productive farmland from conversion to nonagricultural use.

Carroll County landowners Robert and Bernice McClester are the first landowners to donate an agricultural easement to the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA), ensuring their farm will not be converted to a non agricultural use.

Independence Pipeline backers amended their original application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Partners of the Independence Pipeline Company say they've met the market condition stipulations placed on the pipeline project by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Well-known auctioneer Jim Baer died March 27 of an apparent heart attack.

Groups across Ohio and Pennsylvania opposing the proposed Independence natural gas pipeline, are still urging landowners not to sign right-of-way easements.

Four new cases of E. coli O157:H7 were confirmed last week in Medina County.

Mushrooms made it possible for Tom Wiandt of Burbank to get himself back down on the farm after spending a number of years working in Wooster as an engineer.

Ellen and Doug Whitehouse, owners of Noah's Lost Ark in Berlin Center, Ohio, began adopting unwanted or abused exotic animals about 10 years ago.