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Northwest cherry harvest could be the pits following freezing spring temps YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- Fresh cherry pie on the Fourth of July? Maybe not on the East Coast this year, and consumers can blame freezing spring temperatures in the Northwest. An...  Read Story.

End-of-summer Fulton County Fair to feature Beach Boys, country artists WAUSEON -- The 151st annual Fulton County Fair, set for Aug. 29-Sept. 4, will take people to the beach, the country and beyond. The fair's Sunday evening entertainment will feature...  Read Story.

PAULDING -- The Paulding County Master Gardeners will be holding their annual plant sale from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., on May 16, during Paulding Garage Sale Days. Betty DeLaet will again host the plant sale at her home located at 902 Kay Nora St. Items...  Read Story.

City dogs discovering sheep, cattle, hidden talent VINCENT, Calif. (AP) -- The sun is shining, the fields are clear, and the sheep -- a jittery trio of fluff -- are just getting comfortable. Suckers. Selkie, a border collie recovering from a tennis ball...  Read Story.

Pettisville FFA students recently participated in many career development events (CDE) including general livestock, wildlife management, nature interpretation, agronomy, equine management, poultry, and floriculture. Some students also participated in...  Read Story.

Tom Rogliatti attempted something new this year -- he decided to participate in the Lake Erie Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). His brother,...  Read Story.

Awards and scholarships were presented to numerous individuals at the Vantage Career Center FFA Chapters' annual banquet, held recently in the Vantage Commons Area. Among those honored was Industrial...  Read Story.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The world has "never been less secure" about the near-term future of wheat as crop failures and disease combine to threaten food supplies, U.S. Agriculture Secretary...  Read Story.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration is likely to move its research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock, raising...  Read Story.

MONTEPLIER -- A Williams County resident was recognized as Neighbor of the Year at the 2008 Ohio Livestock Coalition annual meeting held April 8. Award recipient Gene Humbarger of Montpelier was...  Read Story.

REYNOLDSBURG -- The Ohio Department of Agriculture recently received its first-ever U.S. patent for discovering a method to identify a potentially fatal strain of Equine Herpes Virus. The patent acknowledges the department's pioneering work in...  Read Story.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A shortage of a key ingredient in beer has shown that even business competitors can come together over a cold one now and then. That happened last...  Read Story.

On March 27, the Pettisville FFA chapter held its 58th annual FFA banquet, where awards were handed out, a new sweetheart was crowned, and the 2008-09 officers were inducted. Laura Bruner, a 2005...  Read Story.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The California winter has been a tough one on South Dakota beekeepers like Richard Adee. Last fall he sent 155 semitrailer trucks to California loaded with hives...  Read Story.

The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) expanded the state's emerald ash borer (EAB) quarantine area to include Putnam and six nearby counties. The state's quarantine, which is designed to slow the spread of the ash tree-killing insect, prohibits the...  Read Story.

TURLOCK, Calif. -- In this barn-turned-classroom, a stuffed wild boar is the class pet. And when the goats escape their pen, the students get extra hours of PE chasing them...  Read Story.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to the flourish of the California...  Read Story.

GREAT BEND, N.Y. (AP) -- Each spring, tens of millions of alfalfa snout beetles rise from the soil to continue their slow, methodical march across upstate New York, laying waste to fields of alfalfa...  Read Story.

AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- A couple who operate an exotic animal farm that includes lions, tigers and bears are being sued by county health officials who seek to remove the animals and have the...  Read Story.

of Farm Collector magazine. Samantha Wank, 10, the daughter of David and Renee Wank, drew a picture of a tractor that was accepted for publication in the national monthly...  Read Story.