Increased volatility in ag markets due to La Niña?
Ag markets may react with increased volatility in 2016 due to the current El Niño and its potential impact on future weather patterns, said the senior economist at CME Group, a leading derivatives marketplace.
R&C first to slaughter for Ohio under USDA interstate program
A small-scale meatpacker in Gallia County has become the first in the state to slaughter livestock under the USDA’s Cooperative Interstate Shipment program.
Traveling exhibit is bringing Dust Bowl lessons to region
The 19th century was an era when U.S. government scientists, railroads and land speculators out West all espoused the same line: “The rain follows the plow.”
Traveling exhibit is bringing Dust Bowl lessons to region
The 19th century was an era when U.S. government scientists, railroads and land speculators out West all espoused the same line: “The rain follows the plow.”
4-generation Ohio farm family tackles rough racing schedule
Every morning Joe Essig Sr., 70, guides a Standardbred from barn No. 8 onto the track at the Warren County Fairgrounds near Lebanon. In the meantime, his wife, Janet, cleans one of the stalls and adds fresh bedding made of hay before Joe returns.
Pardoned by president, turkeys given refuge at a historic Virginia farm
By now, most of them have met their inevitable doom. Artificially conceived in time for a July hatching, Broad Breasted White turkeys are bred and raised primarily for one purpose, to be the guest of honor on the dinner table of millions of Americans on the fourth Thursday of November.
The average price of a Thanksgiving meal for a family of 10 has topped $50 nationwide for the first time since the Farm Bureau has been doing its annual Marketbasket survey.
FDA approves GMO salmon; won’t require special labeling
It has been more than two decades since a company first approached federal health officials about developing a genetically modified (GMO or GE) salmon, and while it has been an upstream fight to win the approval it received last week, there are numerous groups and retailers who still say they’ll boycott the fish.
