A ‘man-of-a-guitar’ player, Rice is a bluegrass legend
BITTER SWEET, Ky. — One of my first influences in music came by way of my grandfather, Chick Johnson, who was a tower of a man with a big voice and a big guitar. He told me once it took a real man to play his guitar, but I tried anyway.
Better cows mean better profitability on today’s dairy farms, according to Dr. Bennett Cassell, dairy science professor emeritus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg.
She may have started as a city girl from Columbus, but Ohio State University extension dairy field specialist Dianne Shoemaker is now one of the state’s most respected voices in dairy farm management.
Mentor, language training boosting dairy work safety
The modern dairy operation is full of opportunities for accidents and injuries, and there also are standards to be met to ensure the safety of the milk produced and the health of the cows.
Commodity groups are concerned that 2,4-D, a common herbicide, will be classified as a "probable carcinogen" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in coming weeks.
Lawsuits has been filed against five tobacco farms in Kentucky by migrant workers claiming they were paid insufficient wages and forced to live in deplorable conditions despite being hired through the federal H-2A program.
Across much of the Midwest, safety measures to prevent the spread of avian influenza will affect 4-H members whose projects involve pigeons or poultry.
