agriculture

BEARS: The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently announced that the 2016 bear harvest in Pennsylvania was one of the most prolific seasons of all time...

If you love to hunt or observe wildlife and own even a very little land, food plots have become not only very popular, but the subject of intensive st...

BYRNEDALE —The Conservation Districts of Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter, Tioga, and Warren counties, in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Sustainable Fo...

PLANTING: After reading Friday’s column, Bob Rusiewski of St. Marys updated us on how some of his vegetables grew in 2016 and shared a little of his v...

COUDERSPORT — Julia Mackenzie Himes, daughter of Aimie Himes of Olean, N.Y., and Daniel Himes of Bradford, and Randall Thomas Kyser, son of Rob and Me...

ELKADER - Johnson’s Reception Hall in Elkader hosted a standing room only crowd of hunters, landowners and area residents on Monday night who were the...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners agreed Tuesday to support the Department of Economic Development in submitting applications for grant mone...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Conservation District will hold training workshops of interest to farmers and other individuals seeking pesticide update...

DuBOIS – U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Howard, Pa., will have a prime seat when Donald Trump is sworn in as the next president of the United States...

SMETHPORT — Shelby Baldwin is a member of the Clover Patch Kids 4-H club and the featured member for January/February 2017. Shelby, 17, has held the o...

FARM SHOW: In what year was the Butter Sculpture introduced to the PA Farm Show? The 101st annual Pennsylvania Farm Show opens to the public today. In...

State Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, has again been named chairman of the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee for the 2017-18 legislativ...

WASHINGTON — It is axiomatic that if someone is sufficiently eager to disbelieve something, there is no Everest of evidence too large to be ignored. T...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — In the 10 years that Sister Joyce Ramage of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany has served as president of Canticle Farm, the all natu...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are fighting for the favor of many of the same undecided voters across Iowa, where even some of the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Monsanto said Wednesday it will eliminate another 1,000 jobs as it expands a cost-cutting plan designed to deal with falling sales o...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Only two states say their National Guard operations could provide facilities to house unaccompanied immigrant children following...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — An unusual warming in the Pacific Ocean may be having disastrous consequences for the majestic whales that use the waters of...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported — a fact that the Obama administration vowed to start turning around by ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — DVD or Blu-ray box sets can be great gifts for film fans, but they're often a predictable, and let's face it, boring choice — unles...