Feb
12
Oh, to stop and smell the roses…In the hustle and bustle of this day and age, our machine-minded, fast-paced locomotive bodies are far more likely to blindly trample every innocent flora in our path rather than saunter slowly in admiration of their delicate scent. But vegetation shapes our metallic world and wired-up psyches far more than …
Feb
06
Most people want to eat healthier and make the best choices at the grocery store. And infinitely versatile chicken, low in fat, high in protein, is often on the shopping list these days. But sometimes making those choices isn’t as easy as it should be. Even labels that seem self-explanatory are not. When it comes …
Feb
03
STANARDSVILLE — Several residents along Teel Mountain Road got a nasty surprise last week after they came across carcasses dumped on the side of the road. While residents may be used to seeing discarded deer, David Eddins and his neighbors were shocked to see several baby bull calves dumped along the side of Teel Mountain …
Jan
30
BENNETTSVILLE, SC — One defendant was convicted, a second pleaded guilty and a third died before trial in the May 31, 2008 theft of seed and equipment from the Bennettsville Southern States facility. Daniel David, aka Boone, 49, Light Street, Bennettsville was convicted of two counts for possession of stolen goods and unlawfully transporting interstate …
Jan
29
January 29, 2012, 11:04 AM EST By Elizabeth Campbell (Updates with analyst comment starting in sixth paragraph.) Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — U.S. cattle inventories fell to the lowest in 60 years after a drought in the South scorched pastures, prompting ranchers to shrink herds. As of Jan. 1, beef and dairy farmers held 90.77 million …
Jan
29
ONE BASKET OF hay stands out from all the others, at least to the judges, on Tuesday at the 78th annual Vermont Farm Show at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction. The show, which continued through Thursday in a new venue, featured 277 vendors representing farm equipment and fertilizer companies, health agencies and farm …
Jan
28
10:17 a.m., Jan. 27, 2012–Offshore wind farms could generate more than enough energy to meet Maryland’s annual electricity consumption, according to a just-published study by researchers at the University of Delaware. The potential power output is nearly double current energy demands for the state, even when taking into account various limitations on where to place …
Jan
25
THIS hairy and uninvited guest has been eating his gracious hosts out of house and home. Redlynch couple Gordon and Joyce McNeil woke on Sunday to find a large goat peeking in through their windows from the backyard. "We heard a ‘clomp, clomp’ on the patio tiles and my wife thought it was me," Mr …
Jan
24
January 24, 2012, 12:42 PM EST By Aya Takada, Yasumasa Song and Elizabeth Campbell Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — U.S. farmers, poised to ship record beef cargoes for a second straight year, may get a further boost as Japan, once their biggest overseas customer, considers easing trade curbs imposed after an outbreak of mad-cow disease. Sales …
Jan
21
Stu Ellis, Farmgate | Updated: January 12, 2012 Most farmers will agree that the farm economy has been strong in the past several years and with reasonably good yields and demand-driven commodity prices, the rural sector of the US economy has provided a lot of the horsepower to keep the rest of the economy going. Pork …