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Bringing new life to old wood
Visitors to the Nokomis-Venice areas looking for the perfect piece of hand-made art for that empty spot at home owe it to themselves to see Minio’s work.
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Feb. 12, 2015:
BEVERLY, Ohio — Fort Frye FFA is is starting its annual strawberry sale, offering a full flat of strawberries for $26, and half a flat of $14. Members are also selling DB Yummers BBQ sauce, both mild and spicy sauce, selling a bottles for $5, and gallons for $22. For the first time
Getting ready for birding in the spring season
Last week I did my best to think spring by suggesting that it was time to put up a few nest boxes for cavity-nesting birds such as eastern bluebirds, tufted titmice, Carolina wrens, and chickadees. This week it’s time for the next step despite a forecast for more severe winter weather. It will warm up
Smart shopping 101
Fruits and vegetables aren’t the only things that go in and out of season. Knowing when to buy big ticket items can save you money.
Columbiana County Fair salutes Purple Heart veterans
The 2010 Columbiana County Fair saluted the county’s Purple Heart veterans with a moving ceremony Aug. 8.
Accumulated numbers we love
As many Eastern Cornbelt farmers nervously estimate just how many frost-free days (weeks?) they’ll yet need to bin an almost certain to-be-late harvest, it’s time for me to sweep my bins — or at least this 150 foot-square office — of some numbers that have accumulated over the summer. For example, agriculture has a huge
Old guard still reigns at USDA, even under Obama
Although Barack Obama has been president but a few days we can already say with certainty — unlike before his inauguration — he cannot fly, leap tall buildings or walk on water. Those feats, however, are chopped liver compared to cracking the good old boy cabal at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Buckling So far,
Soybean farmers: Living on a prayer
As the cold, wet planting season of 2008 slips into mid-May, corn and soybean farmers are grousing about weather delays, the likelihood of reduced yields and a summer of stress before they find out if the former clobbered the latter. While I empathize with their dilemma — this is easily the most costly crop any
Disaster relief an ace in the ag hole
About 10 seconds after the Democrats reclaimed the House of Representatives last November, Collin Peterson, the Minnesotan who would lead the chamber’s Ag Committee come January, began to think about the 2007 farm bill.
Ohio State center helps curb ‘addiction to oil’
COLUMBUS – Plant-derived industrial products play a key role in the country’s plan to cut down dependence on foreign petroleum by boosting production and use of domestic energy and feedstock sources.
