It's a full-service agri-co-operative with its administrative office, elevator operations and food grade bean and edible soybean processing facilities in Hensall. The Co-Op has seven retail crop inputs outlets in southwestern Ontario, two production feed mills and one farm supply/hardware store. It's propane, petroleum and a freight forwarding operation is also in Hensall. Two years later, a second petroleum truck was purchased and in 1960, a bulk fertilizer building was built at the edge...

The GFC GROWS Conference draws landowners from throughout the state who are interested in the latest information on forest and wildlife management. This year s conference features several presentations and breakout sessions covering current issues ranging from conservation tax credits, estate planning, and cost-share opportunities to new forest products, bioenergy, and carbon sequestration. Perdue to address Georgia forest landowners MACON, GA (July 16, 2007) - Governor Sonny Perdue will...

The usual pillow-shaped briquettes are made of wood -- mostly scraps and sawdust from lumber mills -- but they also contain coal dust, lime, binders made from agricultural products, and borax. You can reduce this damage without giving up the unbeatable flavor of grilling with charcoal by switching to lump charcoal instead of the chemically enhanced type. The taste buds might be the first detectors that not all aspects of the outdoor-grilling scene are as savory as they seem at first sniff....

The children spot him first and start to run, the bags theyre carrying jumping up and down on their backs. Gumercindo Perez used to spend the hottest part of his long summer days picking corn and beans on Mexican farms that seemed to go on forever, like the ocean. Pauls was like before the mills closed, when no one worried about things like unemployment, the rise of the big box retailer and what to make of the influx of immigrants. But look closely at the signs that warn drivers how long...

Questions arose such as how will such changes in ownership of large-tract forestland affect wildlife habitat, public access and the economy, he said. Jacobson said the findings from the forum about the issue remain unclear, and will be the topic of study for future meetings, such as the one he plans on attending Thursday in Keweenaw County. BESSEMER -- Federal, state and environmental agencies must work together to protect commercial forest lands in the Upper Peninsula. Jacobson said those...