Seeds of Leadership on a Va. Farm
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MILLWOOD, Va. -- Exactly 50 years ago, a Girl Scout living on a farm near this Clarke County town 60 miles from Washington penned a letter to the White House. It was a time of rising racial tension in Virginia and the country. Drew Gilpin, without telling her parents, decided to seek help from the...
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Horizon OrganicÂ®  farmer-partner Forrest Stricker is passionate about organic dairy  farming and recently had the opportunity to share his farming practices  with Congressman Joe Pitts (R, PA-16), a member of the House Organic  Caucus.
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By Peter B. Lord; Journal Environment Writer  To recognize those who have contributed to Rhode Island agriculture, the state Department of Environmental Management has created an Agricultural Hall of Fame and recently announced its first inductees to the hall.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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By James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 24--U.S. farm policy has reverberations that are felt across the globe, and often not in ways that are positive, a group of environmental and anti-poverty groups said Friday.   In particular, U.S.
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By Janette Rodrigues, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec.
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By SWALLOW, Andrew  Waimate Lions Club is organising a conserved forage competition which offers a win-win opportunity for farmers and the rural community, it believes.
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Call them mutton mowers. University researchers are training sheep to clean up vineyard weeds but stay off the grapes. Enthusiastic and unpicky eaters, sheep are already being used in some vineyards as a green alternative to tractors. They don't use gasoline and keep down weeds &#151; a necessary task to deter pests and keep vines healthy &#151; sans herbicides.
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By Dennis Pollock, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--A program that had its beginnings in Fresno County may enable people across the country to start small farms of their own.
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By Tara Tuckwiller  tara@wvgazette.com  A few farmers along the Ohio River are resorting to a 1930s Dust Bowl tactic - cutting down trees so their cattle can eat the leaves - as most of West Virginia is now in a drought.
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For the past 33 years, one of Northern Virginia's largest corporate training facilities has been a bit of a secret. The campus is tucked away up a winding road, hidden by dense woods in Loudoun County. Guests stay in the center's 917 rooms, attend classes in its 250 meeting rooms and hang out at the...
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VALLEY CITY, N.D.Grain farmer Allan Skogen is just the kind of efficient, market-savvy farmer Congress had in mind in 1996 when it sought to revolutionize U.S. agriculture by giving growers more freedom to decide what to plant while phasing out traditional subsidies.
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Weeds sometimes hide fertile fields of growth.
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By van den Ban, Anne  The Virtual Farmer: Past, Present and Future of the Dutch Peasantry, by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Assen, the Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum, 2003. 432 pp. Euro 3750 (paper). ISBN: 90-232-3892-3.
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By Kimberly Hefling  GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Farmers have been growing apples here since before the Civil War, and as times have changed, they have changed with them, planting smaller trees to speed up harvests and growing popular new varieties to satisfy changing tastes.
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By James Hannah  MARTINSVILLE  --  Tucked away in the den of his 127-year-old farmhouse, Ed Winkle huddles over his computer.   The screen's soft glow lights up his eyeglasses, reflecting messages about tractors, corn hybrids and crop insurance.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 3--"A dead plant is an opportunity," joked Carol Reese, extension area specialist in ornamental horticulture from Jackson, Tenn. at Greenway Farms in Hixson last month.   Ms.