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What is Community Supported Agriculture, how does it work?
CSA reflects an innovative and resourceful strategy to connect local farmers with local consumers; develop a regional food supply and strong local economy; maintain a sense of community; encourage land stewardship; and honor the knowledge and experience of growers and producers working with small to medium farms.
Vet's Afghanistan experience helping to protect American livestock
The twists and turns of life drew a path that led Dr. Lyle Jackson to share his experiences in Afghanistan and his job in the Department of Homeland Security (HDS) last week at the spring dinner meeting of the Mercer County Farm Bureau.
Jackson is the program analyst for food and agriculture for the Undersecretary of Infrastructure Preparedness.
Pony expression
Modern day Paul Revere riders began at Joe Jenkins’ Grove City farm. The message – delivered during a horseback trek across the state – conveyed wasn’t about the British approaching, but about the concerns of farmers.
Lynn Cohen-Cole, a concerned mother and grandmother from Georgia, organizer of the Ride for Farmers, spoke before a small group of farmers and others Wednesday at the Jenkins home.
After harvest just as busy for farmers
Recounting winter days on the farm conjures up recollections of freezing fingers and toes, sparkling trees and white rolling hills.
After the recent snow storms, I realized that I don’t miss the hours each day in the cold barn, thawing pipes, cracking ice out of water buckets and lugging water to the young stock on our dairy farm.
Whispers of autumn are beginning
It doesn’t seem that long ago – we were fussing about when we could get the garden planted. When the sun became visible nearly every day, the seeds that got planted sprouted and grew. We now are enjoying the fruits of that labor. But within the next couple of weeks the long days of summer will have shortened to the crisp days of fall.
Milking, for all it's worth
“I was the guy 10 to 15 years ago who said, ‘No way, never, no how’ would I ever to that,” Dale Kepner said as he stood in the shadow of the expansion of his dairy operation. Kepner considers himself a farmer who would always milk his cows in a stanchion barn.
Farm safety: No accident
With sirens blaring and lights flashing, East End Fire Department and Superior Ambulance Company responded to a farm-accident simulation at the Mercer County 4-H Park.

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