Friday, January 10, 2025

Yearly Archives: 2006

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - With winter feed costs being so high these past few years, extending your grazing season is economically important, and profitable.

SALEM, Ohio - A newly developed meat goat marketing Web site has been developed by OSU Extension and the Buckeye Meat Goat Marketing Alliance.

WOOSTER, Ohio - Wet conditions and a slow soybean harvest continue to delay wheat planting throughout Ohio, raising concerns that the coming winter could have an impact on a crop struggling to get established.

ATHENS, Ohio - The fall season can be a good time for livestock producers to evaluate hay quality to ensure that animals are receiving the proper nutrient requirements.

COLUMBUS - For many Ohio farmers, this is the wettest fall since 2003. Not only is the weather throwing a strike at this year's harvest and wheat planting, wet soil compacts easily and that can lead to problems next spring.

CARLISE, Pa. - Tim Fuller's pedicure clients are pretty hefty. Averaging about 1,500 pounds, his girls can be a little touchy about getting their nails done.

SALEM, Ohio - Dairy producers are doing it, making money and improving herds. So what's the beef industry waiting on? That's the mindset behind a new beef heifer development program in the works by the Ohio State University

SALEM, Ohio - Three early morning fires Oct. 24 claimed a bank barn, an abandoned farm market and a refrigerated produce truck in Stark County, Ohio.

In a perfect world, we'd never print another article like Tony Nicoletto's page one story about his miraculous recovery from a farm accident.

The next afternoon after this tragedy, a beautiful autumn day, I was pleasantly surprised to come home and find our little Amish neighbor girls, Anna and Lizzie, here in our back yard, picking up walnuts as we had told them they were welcome to do.