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You are browsing all 12 articles featuring Connie Musgrove. You can browse/search by year/month, and search terms to view other articles in the database.
Lancaster Farming (Mon 1 Nov, 2010)
Oregon Dairy Organics Opens Its Doors to the Public
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
LITITZ, Pa. — A composting facility that will use up to 20,000 tons of manure from a Lancaster County farm was the site of an open house last Friday.
Capital News Service (Sat 16 Oct, 2010)
Switching to grazing helps farmers, bay
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
ANNAPOLIS - As a restoration scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Rob Schnabel shuttles around Western Maryland in his hybrid car persuading farmers to switch to grazing -- which is healthier, eco-friendly and more profitable than confinement farming, where cows are kept in stalls and injected with antibiotics.
McClatchey News Service (Mon 29 Jun, 2009)
'Sustainable Dairy' Farmer Shows Big Gain
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
Ron Holter likes to say he's farming as God intended, without pesticides on the grass fields or hormones or antibiotics in the cows. But visitors to his organic dairy farm west of Frederick on Tuesday also heard about how the Earth, animals, consumers — and his pocketbook — are also benefiting.
The Baltimore Sun (Wed 24 Jun, 2009)
'Sustainable' dairy farmer shows big gain
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
Ron Holter likes to say he's farming as God intended, without pesticides on the grass fields or hormones or antibiotics in the cows. But visitors to his organic dairy farm west of Frederick on Tuesday also heard about how the Earth, animals, consumers - and his pocketbook - are also benefiting.
NACD's Resource Magazine (Thu 1 Jan, 2009)
Helping Create and Implement Conservation Plans
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
Pennsylvania's Lancaster County has been known as the Garden Spot of the World for centuries. For more than 50 years, the Lancaster County Conservation District (LCCD) in Pennsylvania has been empowering the county's farmers to make positive choices to maintain and improve the process of farming through practices that conserve precious soil and water resources—resources that are vital components of the food we eat.
Lancaster Farming (Wed 26 Nov, 2008)
Something's Better Than Nothing: Alternative Stream Fencing Pilot Project Offers Compromise to Shenandoah Valley Farmers
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
KEEZLETOWN, Va. — Bob and Susan Threewitts keep about 60 cows on their 90-acre pasture, which lies just north of Keezletown on the western slope of Massanutten Mountain and is transected by three streams. Cub Run, which has earned mention on Virginia's impaired waters list for bacterial violations, flows right through the middle.
Bay Journal (Tue 1 Apr, 2008)
Put out to Pasture: Region's dairy, beef producers are learning that grass is indeed greener when they switch to rotational grazing
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
On a pleasant evening last September, more than 100 people gathered on Steven Weaver's New York farm to see how his grass was growing. Quite well, it turned out, despite a drought that persisted much of the summer.
The Prince George's Gazette (Thu 27 Mar, 2008)
Grass-fed cattle designed to trim some of the fat: Farmers counting on method to boost business and help the environment
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
Twenty-five cows erupted in an excited chorus of moos when Michael Heller approached them in their field of short, ragged grass.
The Washington Post (Fri 26 Oct, 2007)
Across a Great Divide: To Secure the Help of Government-Wary Mennonites in Reducing Farm Pollution in the Bay, Officials First Have to Earn Their Trust
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
HINTON, Va. In the driveway, there was a strange man in a strange truck with a government logo pasted on its door. To Richard Wenger -- an Old Order Mennonite, wary of new cars and new people and governments alike -- this was the scariest kind of visitor.
The Delmarva Farmer (Tue 22 May, 2007)
Fine tuning dairy herd feeding
Staff quoted: Connie Musgrove
Dairy farming in Maryland extends well back to the War of Independence when Maryland was known as the "Bread Basket of the Revolution." It is truly part of the state's rich agricultural history.