Taste winter pears from last autumn's crop, kept fresh through the winter in a controlled atmosphere and ripened to perfection. Also available for purchase are wool roving, yarn and fleece, along with Oregon wine, food and espresso. In addition to wine and fresh fruit, you will find complementary chocolate, cheese and bread. See the works of 20 juried artists featuring fiber, folk and garden art. FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 18-20 Scio This event 25 miles southeast of Salem offers up a carnival,...

Farmers Weekly Login Home. You are in: Home>News> Livestock Carcass quality must rise to meet market demands 11/05/2007 13:00:00 Farmers Weekly Beef and lamb producers appear to be heeding the message that quality counts, with English slaughterers reporting increased proportions of both sheep and cattle meeting prefered specifications, according to EBLEX. You are in: Home>News> Livestock Carcass quality must rise to meet market demands 11/05/2007 13:00:00 Farmers Weekly Beef and lamb...

Goat milk did the trick &#8220Pinky, as she would be called from that time on into adulthood, took a dramatic turn for the better with the goat milk replacement. It was the only goat dairy in the country producing &#8220certified goat's milk where the family milked some 900 does on their 16-acre Ripon farm with all five breeds. She was a staff member who would always get to school early - like 7:45 - and pull loose ends together and make the coffee, turn on a heater before others arrived....

She was less than impressed by the news, so now the lambs are back home in Ramsay's garden and Hugh has been hard at work designing an obstacle course to keep them happy. Hugh explained: "If you're going to rear animals in a limited space, then you have to work on giving them an enriched environment and that means giving them stuff to play on. We start to see meat as prepared, dinner party cuts, like racks of lamb or fillets of beef, instead of considering the entire animal and the bigger...

We have the best lamb in the world and consumers lining up to buy it but we have an industry model of a big old dinosaur that is spiraling down and not evolving and threatening to take the whole industry with it. The MIAG, a group of Southland sheepfarmers, who were optimistic about the prospects of reforming the industry were disappointed by the attitude of the companies. We wanted to discuss the need for better market co-ordination between not only our two co-ops but also the whole...