Monday, December 23, 2024

Yearly Archives: 2004

ATHENS, Ga. - World Trade Organization negotiators, who met last week at the organization's headquarters, have yet to advance specifics on how all nations of the world subsidize and protect their agriculture sectors.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - More than 3,000 people recently visited Rochester, N.Y., for the 138th National Grange Convention, traveling from 40 states, including Alaska, New Mexico and Wyoming.

HERSHEY, Pa. -Pennsylvania Farm Bureau members have elected vice president Carl Shaffer as the organization's new president.

HERSHEY, Pa. - Pennsylvania Farm Bureau announced the winners of the Young Farmer and Rancher Discussion Meet and Excellence in Ag award.

LANCASTER, Ohio - Tammie Rogers swings her pouch over her shoulder and hides it in the layers of her fleece coat.

SALEM, Ohio - Ohio's 10th District Court of Appeals agrees with Ohio Agriculture Director Fred Dailey: Taylor Creager's 2002 Ohio State Fair grand champion hog is disqualified.

CANFIELD, Ohio - Springfield Township farmer Carl Chuey received the Mahoning Soil and Water Conservation District's Cooperator of the Year award when the district held its annual meeting Nov.

WASHINGTON - All of agriculture held its collective breath late last week to learn whether or not an inconclusive test result for mad cow disease proved false or positive.

I am decidedly a country girl from way back, but I confess to one odd trait that makes me look like a city kid in the biggest way.

The first political wisdom ever sent my way came from the gravelly throat of Everett Dirksen. During Dirksen's 1968 reelection stop in my southern Illinois hometown, I asked the white-maned Senate Minority Leader how he'd outflank Mayor Daley's Chicago vote machine.