Illinois Iowa, Missouri counties declared USDA disaster areas
Thanks to Mother Nature dumping excessive rain on parts of the Midwest during late April and early May, USDA officials recently designated 52 counties in Missouri, eight in Illinois and nine in Iowa as disaster areas.
Lawn equipment expo to replace Power Show Ohio next December
Power Show Ohio, a decades-old show held each January at the Ohio Expo, is closing its doors. This annual show that served the agricultural, landscape and construction industries and drew thousands over that one weekend will be discontinued beginning next year.
Livestock haulers applaud possible delay of ELD rule
Haulers of livestock and insects will not have to install electronic logging devices (ELD), if a recently proposed one-year delay on the mandate is adopted.
Year-round exercise vital to success of pony competitors
Months of work came to fruition in late July for hundreds of Madison County 4-H members as they competed at the county fairgrounds in Beulah Park, at Alexandria.
