[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Zw6zyp-EI] Today at 9 a.m. members of the Purdue Extension Homemakers club gathered to donate a total of 52 homemade tote bags to Fellowship Missions Founder Eric Lane. The bags, which are made entirely by members of the club, will be given to women at Fellowship Missions’ homeless shelter. According to June Thomas, a member …read more.

By KELLY HECKAMAN Purdue Extension office What is biosecurity? Farm machinery production offers what career options? When a chicken (hen) begins to lay eggs for the first time, she is how old? A beef animal yields how many quarter pound hamburgers? The number one pollutant, by volume, in Indiana waters is? When going to market, …read more.

Not all bacteria is bad when it comes to food, but much of it is and caution should be taken to eliminate as much of it as possible when cooking. Joan Younce, Purdue Extension Office for Kosciusko County, spoke to Darcy Hively’s family and consumer sciences classes Thursday and Friday at Wawasee Middle School as …read more.

Kelly Heckaman, Purdue Extension Office Planting season always comes with a safety message about important precautions on our rural highways. It is the season when farm machinery and other vehicles use the same two-lane highways. It is also the season when collisions between farm equipment and other vehicles occur more frequently. These collisions are often …read more.

One sure fire way to find out if your bull is fertile is to bring your him to the 17th annual reproductive soundness exam clinic beginning at 8 a.m. April 6, at Milford Animal Clinic. The Kosciusko County Cattlemen’s Association will be providing beef producers the opportunity to have their bulls go through an RSE. …read more.

Doug Shock, North Webster, was presented the Friend of Extension Award at the annual Purdue Extension meeting for Kosciusko County this week. Joan Younce, county extension director, presented the award to Shock noting his numerous areas of work within the local extension program. He was a member of the Dairy Calf Feeder Steer Committee from …read more.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture crop production report is set to be released tomorrow and a Purdue Extension economist thinks the numbers will paint a “crushing” financial picture for farmers. Chris Hurt believes corn production will show a 25 percent decrease and soybeans will drop 13 percent throughout the country. Food manufacturers will have to …read more.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue Extension has begun a series of regional meetings throughout the state featuring expert speakers and the opportunity for producers to share ideas with each other. The meetings are designed at helping livestock and crop producers manage their way through the financial and operational consequences of the drought. The meetings being …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s drought is stressing the state’s trees, leaving some prone to diseases and insect infestations and killing others outright as the hot, dry conditions linger. Forecasters say Indiana’s worst drought in decades may linger into this fall and the full impact of the drought on trees may not be known for months …read more.