Rachel Wagoner

SALEM, Ohio — A wet early spring will likely bring a moderate to above-moderate harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual HAB forecast.

Darlington wants Norfolk Southern to pay to get public water to residents concerned over long-term environmental impacts from the East Palestine derailment.

Editor Rachel Wagoner writes about the various tasks a farmer must do, which sometimes includes the difficult decision to euthanize a sick animal.

Orland Bethel recently donated $18.5 million to the University of Pittsburgh for a biological specimen repository to enhance musculoskeletal research.

Farmers in southeastern Ohio have been hauling water and feeding hay for months. The costs are piling up as their winter feed reserves dwindle.

Brittany Eisenman and Tom Cotherman hold a sign for the hay drive Eisenman organized to send hay to farmers in the South impacted by Hurricane Helene. The drive is being done in memory of Cotherman’s brother Mike Cotherman, who died earlier this year. The first bales donated by Eisenman’s family were some of the last one Mike Cotherman made with his family on Eisenman’s farm. (Submitted photo)

SALEM, Ohio — A pig at a backyard farm in Oregon was found to have H5N1 bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding announced Nov. 20 that Pennsylvania will now require precautionary bulk testing of milk for highly pathogenic avian influenza from Pennsylvania farms as an added measure to prevent the spread of the H5N1 bird flu.

Ohio House Bill 683, introduced by state Rep. Don Jones, would give $10 million to soil and water conservation districts to spend on drought relief.

I was recently at a birthday party for a dear relative of mine. As I do, I got to talking with some people I’d never met about things we had in common, people we both know, etc.