Tag: technology
Learn livestock lessons in your living room
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Beef, sheep and meat-goat producers looking for information on how to make their livestock enterprises more profitable can take advantage...
Bio-fuel vehicles added to OARDC fleet
The vehicles can run on gasoline or natural gas. The OARDC is in the process of making its own compressed natural gas, with its research partner, quasar energy group.
Farmers: Take online courses!
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Poultry and vegetable production, business and financial planning and recordkeeping online courses all start in January. The courses are from the...
Social media for ag business
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The use of social media has become an increasingly important way to enhance a farm or food business' marketing activities,...
Digital divide still exists; the poor lose
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Technology can serve as a tool to bridge the digital divide, but it is unlikely to be a complete solution...
Do cellphone bans make us safer on the roads? Probably
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Cellphones and driving go together like knives and juggling. But when cellphone use is banned, are drivers any safer?
It depends on...
Phone app makes spraying insecticide easier
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have released two mobile phone applications, or "apps," to make things easier for anyone who needs to adjust insecticide spray equipment.
Michigan State preserves Civil War stories online
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Faded and sometimes tattered, letters and journal entries written 150 years ago by hopeful and homesick Civil War soldiers will...
Smartphone app helps control invasive species
Ohio State University Extension has released a new app for spotting and tracking invasive species -- non-native organisms such as Asian carps, purple loosestrife and Asian longhorned beetle -- to try to keep them from setting up beachheads and hurting the economy and environment.
Every pencil should have an eraser
Plugging along in this ultra-technologically advanced world of ours sometimes just makes a fellow long for a newly-sharpened yellow pencil with a fresh eraser....
