FULTON COUNTY SWCD STAFF HONORED FOR CONSERVATION EFFORTS
Canton Daily Ledger Thu, 17 Mar 2005 8:40 AM PST
Two local Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) staff members were honored at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service awards ceremony and banquet March 2 in Decatur. |
Thorsgard honored as Little I Agriculturalist of the Year
Farm And Ranch Guide Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:10 AM PST
Enoch Thorsgard, Northwood, N.D., has been selected by the North Dakota State University Saddle and Sirloin Club as the 79th Little International Agriculturist of the Year. Each year, the club honors a distinguished leader in North Dakota agriculture who possesses traits members seek to exemplify. |
Seed time
Daily Press Fri, 18 Mar 2005 6:32 AM PST
On Spring Picture Day, March 8, Patricia Lopez was pretty in pink but could not resist helping to shovel. On March 11, at Topaz Elementary School in Hesperia, teacher Melissa Sipes watched second-graders plant rows of tiny carrot seeds in between rows of chunky corn seeds. |
Selling the family farm
The Adobe Press Fri, 18 Mar 2005 3:11 AM PST
Hideo Kaminaka, the Nipomo farming family's 71-year-old patriarch, surveys a portion of his 59-acre farm along Pomeroy Road that could soon become the site of community ball fields and a veterans memorial. |
News
Arkansas News Bureau Fri, 18 Mar 2005 1:11 AM PST
LITTLE ROCK - Four bills that would redefine how public schools are built in Arkansas passed the Senate on Thursday almost unanimously, with one dissenting vote on one of the bills. - |
U.S.-made tequila takes shot at monopoly
Rapid City Journal Thu, 17 Mar 2005 9:37 PM PST
California farmer started growing blue agave as landscaping but now is using it to create a brand of American-made tequila. TEMECULA, Calif. J.B. Wagoner initially planted blue agave around his 25-acre property to solve a landscaping dilemma. |
Local worming for Beed farmers
Yahoo! India News Thu, 17 Mar 2005 5:01 PM PST
In a corner of Beed, one of the worst drought-hit areas of Maharashtra, seven women are tapping the farmer’s oldest friend to provide a way out of annual agricultural losses and subsequent debts. |
Biodynamic expert is guest speaker at Nederburg Auction
South African Wine News Thu, 17 Mar 2005 2:09 PM PST
'The choice of the charismatic Joly as guest speaker is appropriate, given that biodiversity - the science encompassing all the genes, species, ecosystems and processes conducive to life - is also this year's auction theme,' said Julie Cheetham, corporate communications manager for Distell. |
HISTORY OF GIBSON COUNTY
Tri-State Media Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:05 PM PST
In this section you will find an interesting historical account of the communities that make up Gibson County. Gibson County was once a wilderness situated in the Northwest Territory which, in 1784, was ceded to the United States of America by Virginia. |
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