MCCANDLESS — A 9-year-old girl with a green thumb is being rewarded with the other kind of green for growing an extraordinarily large cabbage.
Lily Ries, a fourth-grader...
Avoid the urge to do too much
Is anyone tired of shoveling snow? We are only part-way through winter, and more snow is on the way.
Shoveling snow is now a part of our wi...
Butler County was well represented among the hundreds of competitors at the 103rd annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, which ran from Jan. 4 to Saturday at the Farm Show Compl...
As the 103rd Pennsylvania Farm Show rolls along in Harrisburg, a local participant can offer something positive for farm enthusiasts stuck back home in Butler County.
Sa...
Bankers in some parts of the Midwest are tightening the screws on farmers in the new year.
Fifty-two percent of bankers in a 10-state area said they’ve boosted collatera...
I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday season and as we pushed 2018 out the door it looks like we did so with a record rainfall.
Officially in Pittsburgh we broke...
The Butler County Agricultural Land Preservation Board is taking applications this month from farmers looking to get farmland preservation easements on their properties....
Penn State Extension is offering several education meetings to help private, public and commercial applicators fulfill their recertification credit requirements for thei...
Operations hurt by own efficiency
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Dairy farmers are a hardy lot.
They get up early each day to tend to their animals and never stop working until the e...
Along with a little less rain, farmers in Pennsylvania are hoping for the elimination of federal trade tariffs and access to more foreign markets in 2019.
“The weather, ...
