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OSU economist: 2014 farm land values flat, or in decline
After years of record growth, have farmland values reached their peak?
Call me. Maybe.
I don’t know when our home phone got demoted, but it did. It used to be the ringing of the home phone was like the bell to Pavlov’s dog. We would jump to attention. Who might it be? Is it family? Friend? Nowadays we know who it is: The National Rifle Association, political call, or
To NCBA leaders, silence is golden
By law and by USDA’s failure “to restore operational integrity” to the checkoff, NCBA remains the single, biggest benefactor of checkoff cash.
Monroe manufacturer teams with UW-Madison on electric truck
MADISON, Wis. — Monroe, Wis., is a small city with a big reputation for its cheese. Now, a partnership between manufacturer Orchid Monroe and University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers may expand the city’s expertise to include innovative clean vehicle technology. Orchid Monroe is providing support for researchers from the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Vintage music boxes featured at auction
By Susan Mellish Contributing Writer LISBON, Ohio — Kiko Auctions held an auction May 29 for the June K. Ingraham estate, offering for bid a beautiful 3000-plus square-foot historical century home and its contents. While the furnishings of the home included oodles of antiques, it was the impressive music box and organettes collection which brought
Cattle fed distiller’s grains maintain flavor and tenderness of beef
AMARILLO, Texas – The availability and use of wet distiller’s grains in beef finishing diets continues to increase as the ethanol industry expands, and some Texas AgriLife Research scientists are trying to determine if that will affect consumers’ meat purchases. While much of the research focus has been on the energy value of the distiller’s
Pay attention to farming’s long view
It’s easy to get caught up in this season’s crop, this summer’s pasture growth or this fall’s corn prices. It’s not so easy to stop and take a look around at agriculture in general and at what’s coming down the pike.
Grazing new trails: Ohio farmer takes holistic approach
PLEASANTVILLE, Ohio — Four years ago, Mark Scarpitti of Pleasantville, Ohio, added a few meat goats to his sheep grazing operation. The next year, he sold off the sheep.
Never too old for floor farming fun
Last night, I did some serious farming. Santa Claus had brought me a silo filled with farm animals and fencing and it had not yet been opened.
Johnny Cash’s legacy speaks for itself
Johnny Cash was strumming in a whole lot of backgrounds across this great American heartland over the course of the last 50 years, writes columnist Judith Sutherland.
