Smashing pumpkin!
Todd Skinner of Barnesville, Ohio, broke the state pumpkin record with his pumpkin weighing in at 1,109 pounds
USDA expands storage loan program
USDA has expanded the farm storage facility loan program, which offers low-interest loans to farmers building on-farm storage facilities.
USGS scientists warn West Nile virus is on the move
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed West Nile Virus is on the move and is likely to head south.
Welcome to farmanddairy.com
The forerunner to today's Farm and Dairy began in 1914. Over the eighty-five plus years that Farm and Dairy...
State ag secretaries look ahead to 2002 farm bill
COLUMBUS -- Getting the federal government to tie highway funding to ethanol use may have been in the hopper for action, but it was...
Greatest potential of precision farming remains in its promise
The greatest potential of precision farming is probably still in the future, when the technology has developed even more than it has today.
Tornado hits Xenia… again
An F-4 tornado struck southwestern Ohio Sept. 20, revisiting the Greene County town of Xenia leveled by a tornado in 1974.
U.S. breaks trade block of China’s Great Wall
The U.S. Senate last week approved an amendment-free bill granting permanent normal trade relations for China.
Vote pushed back on megafarm bill
COLUMBUS -- The debate over Ohio Senate Bill 141, which would transfer regulation of large-scale farms to the Ohio Department of Agriculture from the...
Ohio ag economist voices real livestock issue
During the Farm Science Review, ag economist Carl Zulauf threw down the gauntlet with this statement: "There is no reason livestock has to be in Ohio. The industry has to make its own way."
