Producers, packers and the bison industry itself is doing a better job getting the word out about how healthy bison meat is. Schmidt said he generally maintains a herd of about 24 animals, selling the meat to various businesses, including the Wichita Farmers Market. My background has helped me and the timing of the market has helped. Everyone has done a good job marketing their own animals. Exports are expanding and plenty of businesses are interested in buying bison. I got started helping...

Do homemade patterns produce? They surely do - but don't count yourself out if tying flies requires more time, effort and/or interest than you possess. Somewhere between these divergent thoughts lies this slice of angling strategy: Notwithstanding the challenge-and-achievement factor, fly fishing offers an undeniable advantage in the stealth department. With the exception of poppers designed to draw reaction strikes much the same way as you would by jerking a cork rig on spinning tackle,...

A fungus that attacks alfalfa and clover with rotting brown lesions has been detected in farm fields in Vermont and four other Northeastern states, say Cornell University scientists. Last year, the Farm Bureau convinced state lawmakers to spend $300,000 for research on the fungus, which can also infect vegetables and Christmas trees, Gregg said. He said the best thing farmers can do at this point to deal with the infections is to buy stronger, disease-resistant alfalfa. The disease's...

Time passes slowly for anxious growers waiting to send the last of their fruit into wineries juggling tank space for the yet-to-be harvested grapes. My response to Carlos was not to call off the picking and have the people come in, hoping the weather forecast was correct and the clouds would move out and a nice breeze would blow for the rest of the night. When we first began farming, we would invariably try to get just one more cutting of hay for the year. We borrowed a side loader from...

The 58,000-gallon spill into the delicate mouth of the bay comes at an unfortunate time for migratory birds, such as the 150,000 ducks that have just flown 2,000 miles from Canada's boreal forest to feed over the winter in the bay ecosystem, bird biologists said Thursday. The 58,000-gallon spill into the delicate mouth of the bay comes at an unfortunate time for migratory birds, such as the 150,000 ducks that have just flown 2,000 miles from Canada's boreal forest to feed over the winter...

That's why he became a dairy farmer who worked with the Anheuser-Busch brewery to use its leftover grain and forage crops for cattle feed. The process is compared to how lightning is created in nature, with temperatures reaching more than 7,000 degrees centigrade, hotter than the surface of the sun. The company landed agreements in June to acquire garbage that it will convert to electricity and sell to the city of Tallahassee. The gas is then sent to a combustion turbine to produce electricity.