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How Highly Focused Sound Waves Steadied A Farmer’s Trembling Hand
By: Jon Hamilton | NPR
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Tree farmer Alan Dambach’s tremor got so bad he couldn’t read his own signature. Then he tried a new procedure that uses sound waves to destroy specific brain cells.
Zanesville Farmers Market
The Zanesville Farmers Market is open every Wednesday 4-7pm on N. 3rd St. in downtown Zanesville, next to The Freight Shops. This week’s guest food truck is Mount Airy Beef,… Read More
Zanesville Farmers Market
The Zanesville Farmers Market is open every Wednesday 4-7pm on N. 3rd St. in downtown Zanesville, next to The Freight Shops. This week’s food truck feature is Phillip’s Food Truck,… Read More
Zanesville Farmers Market
The Zanesville Farmers Market will kick off their first Wednesday market of the season June 13, 4-7pm. Phillips Food Truck will help start the season off right, offering locally inspired… Read More
Back To The Garden: How Green Thumbs Help With Addiction Recovery
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Meredith Jensen is doing some gardening on a sunny day in a secluded part of Athens, Ohio. “I’m working on our pollinator garden beds,” she said. “Which are a bunch… Read More
Drowning In Milk: Dairy Farmers Look For Lifelines In Flooded Market
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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LaRue County, Kentucky, dairy farmer Gary Rock sits in his milking parlor, overlooking what is left of his 95 cow operation. “Three hundred years of history is something that a… Read More
3rd Annual Harrison Career Center FFA Tractor, Truck, Engine, and Car Show
3rd ANNUAL HARRISON CAREER CENTER FFA TRACTOR, TRUCK, ENGINE, AND CAR SHOW MAY 6, 2018 HARRISON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS 550 GRANT STREET CADIZ, OHIO 10am-4pm FOOD MUSIC … Read More
Trade War Fears Have Ohio Valley Soy Growers Nervous
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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China buys more than half of the soybeans grown in the Ohio Valley. So China’s threat this week to place a 25 percent tariff on U.S. soy means farmers would… Read More
Feds Deny Poultry Industry Request To Increase Work Speed
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has denied a petition by the National Chicken Council to remove the speed limit on work at some slaughterhouses, a move that food safety advocates are calling a victory… Read More
Farmers Fond of Trump But Growing Nervous About Trade
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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When President Trump spoke to the American Farm Bureau annual convention this month he focused on the regulatory rollbacks and tax cuts that motivated many farmers to help vote him… Read More
25th Anniversary Happy Hour for Community Food Initiatives
Join CFI for a night of live music from Caitlin Kraus at West End Ciderhouse! In honor of our 25th anniversary, we are kicking off a year-long fundraising campaign with… Read More
The Soybean Is King, Yet Remains Invisible
By: Dan Charles | NPR
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For the first time in history, soybeans are about to become America’s most widely grown crop. Yet compared to corn or wheat, they remain curiously invisible in American culture.
Impossible? The Bleeding Veggie Burger
By: Julie Grant | The Allegheny Front
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Few things have as big an impact on our environment as the food we eat. Agriculture accounts for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. And beef production, in particular, uses… Read More
Gutting Guest Worker Rights: Migrant Labor Bill Cuts Protections
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Roberto Gonzales and six other workers came from Nayarit, Mexico, to work on a Garrard County, Kentucky, tobacco farm using a guest worker program called the H-2A visa. The Department of… Read More
Speedy Decision: Are Poultry Processors Pushing Safety Limits?
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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After serving five years in the Navy Tyler Dunn has returned home to Hickman, Kentucky. These days, if he isn’t at work at the local liquor store or completing assignments… Read More
On Strike: Migrant Workers On Visa Program Claim Unfair Pay
By: Benny Becker | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Workers on a tobacco farm in Garrard County, Kentucky, are entering the third week of a strike over claims that they have not received the pay guaranteed by a federal… Read More
EPA Limits Use Of Problematic Herbicide Dicamba
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to some limits on the use of a controversial herbicide called dicamba, which farmers throughout the region have blamed for crop damage. A change to… Read More
Hog-Tied? NAFTA Talks Have Ohio Valley Pork Producers Nervous
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Talks on renegotiating NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, are set for later this month and farm country is concerned about the potential fallout from a trade dispute. Pork… Read More
High Hop(e)s: Craft Brewing Has Farmers Betting On Hops
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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The acres devoted to growing hops doubled in the U.S. in just the last five years and the trade group Hop Growers of America estimates that 95 percent of that… Read More
Stopping Superbug: A New Farm Rule Targets Antibiotic Resistance
By: Lisa Gillespie | Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control offers a stark example of the declining power of medicine’s most important weapons against infectious disease. The CDC noted that a… Read More
Growing Concerns: Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric Sows Anxiety In Agriculture
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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On Nelson Key Road in Murray, Kentucky, lies a 30-acre tobacco farm and there sits the road’s namesake, Nelson Key himself. He’s just at the end of this year’s harvest,… Read More
Piggy Express: ‘Right To Farm’ Law Shields Giant Hog Operation
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Mount St. Joseph in Daviess County, Kentucky, may appear calm with the Green River flowing past homes that dot the farmland here. But there is trouble in the air and… Read More
Data Farming: How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Big Ag
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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It’s harvest time and a semi full of corn just pulled onto the scales at Seven Springs Farm in Cadiz, Kentucky. On the scale, the analytics work begins: moisture content,… Read More
Grazing In The Grass: An Old-Fashioned Idea Holds New Promise For Sustainable Farming
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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On 120 acres in Marion, Kentucky, small-scale farmer Joseph Mast is taking an innovative approach to provide for his growing family of nine. Mast belongs to an Amish community and… Read More
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