And again this year, the Thursday ag entrepreneurship awards mark the transition toward a membership mixture that includes students from farms, ranches, acreages and from town addresses. A family business that also includes their parents, Mike and Tami, has just expanded from two to four acres of asparagus. This years top entrepreneurship winners were Judd Went of Columbus Lakeview, whos working toward marketing specialty cuts of lamb in the Columbus area, and Rachael Arkfeld, a member of...

Ewu Nwadiana And All That Jazz Uche Nworah - 1/4/2007 I didn't make it to the village this past Christmas but I kept in touch with my people, whip President Obasanjo any which way you like, but thank his administration for giving Nigerians GSM (pronounced g-i-s-i-m) mobile phones. Ewu Nwadiana And All That Jazz Uche Nworah - 1/4/2007 I didn't make it to the village this past Christmas but I kept in touch with my people, whip President Obasanjo any which way you like, but thank his...

But his equipment and entourage always looked to be in good shape. He was dressed in work clothes, boots, and a wide-brimmed well-seasoned looking western style hat, which would have been the envy of any movie cowboy. On the other hand, he might have met up with bad trouble, and wound up in some government facility, with his animal friends and his wagon scattered who knows where. He and his friends seem to have made a good life for themselves, without doing anyone any harm, for at least...

BSE, more commonly known as mad-cow disease, nearly crippled the sheep business in Canada with prices dropping to about one-third of the normal selling price. Co-owner Karen Moilliet said the ranch took a turn from a strictly agricultural base toward tourism last year after they nearly went bankrupt due to the 2004-2005 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak, which closed the Canada-U. A fourth generation of Moilliets are now raising sheep on the working ranch, and have opened...

Unfortunately, they were caught slaughtering the goat, bringing to sudden end craving for meat. Amid beatings, one of the suspects was made to carry the carcasses on his head to a local police station, blood dripping down his face and gaudy attire. But it is uncharacteristic of the pastoralists who straddle the vast plains of the Rift Valley and even crossing into Tanzania to move around carrying meat or carcasses on their heads as it happened in Kisumu recently. The incident began with...