Yearly Archives: 2005
Ag Progress Days: Pennsylvania starts farm bill debate
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. - Even though the current farm bill won't run out for another two years, the public is already weighing in on what needs to stay and what needs to go in 2007.
$170,807 in sales at Lawrence County fair, up almost $49,000 since 2000
NEW CASTLE, Pa. - Despite the 90 degree weather and an afternoon downpour, buyers still made it out support the Lawrence County livestock sale.
Livestock auction gets new owner
SMITHFIELD, Ohio - The Carrollton Livestock Auction is under new ownership and management. Wayne Falb, an auctioneer and cattleman from Leetonia, Ohio, took over operations Aug.
Darkness doesn’t deter buyers at Jefferson County livestock auction
SMITHFIELD, Ohio - Four-H'ers in Jefferson County probably plan on fair-week rain as much as they've come to plan on Kyleigh DeFrank bringing at least one champion livestock project.
Area residents say watershed district’s plan still vague
SALEM, Ohio - The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District says its idea holds water, but some landowners in 18 eastern Ohio counties deny it and say the district's latest plan is giving them a sinking feeling.
Moving straw: If I only had a brain
Hard work is good for the soul. Hard work builds character. Hard work makes you tougher. Hard work teaches you things you don't even know you are learning.
What voters want in farm policy
Baseball has its winter hot-stove league when teams and players wheel and deal in hopes of improving their World Series chances.
Know how to properly manage corn silage harvest
Weather conditions have been highly variable this summer. As I drive through northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania, I see beautiful fields of corn, and a few miles away I see drought-stunted fields where it looks like corn is already dying.
Derby Dust
I raised my aching body from the wooden planked bleacher seat that I'd become fused to. I should have taken more stand-up-and-stretch breaks between heats.
