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Stark County woman holds claim to world’s largest pumpkin
Christy Harp, of Jackson Township just outside Canton, has grown a 1,725-pound behemoth pumpkin, believed to be the world’s largest ever recorded. It will likely retain that title if it can survive a couple more weigh-offs.
Predicting the grain market is like checking the chicken entrails
Everyone expects me to tell them the future of the grain markets, and the future is murky to me.
Get A Life, Mom
Marking another first for me, the mom who could be a grandmother by now, I smoothed down the drama and trauma of missing my youngest daughter’s recent visit to the family doctor.
Muffins In A Melting Pan
“I’m in the mood for blueberry muffins, Mom,” Kathie announced to me in mid-morning during a long weekend off school.
‘Gift of the Magi’ fights cancer
Researchers have identified a compound in myrrh, one of the gifts presented to Jesus by the Three Wise Men, that they believe could be developed into a potent anticancer agent.
FSA Andy talks planting season
Hello Again! It took a while, but I think winter has finally lost its tenuous grip on us. The smells of spring are fully upon us now. Newly mown grass, lilacs in bloom and, yes, that favorite scent of spring for a farmer, the smell of newly worked soils. Planting in the area is well
Picking your transgenic corn hybrids
An issue facing corn growers this fall and winter when purchasing corn for next summer centers around the recent announcement of western corn rootworms developing resistance to Cry3Bb1.
Mechanical thinning increases fruit size, reduces labor for producers
BIGLERVILLE, Pa. — Hand thinning is a necessary but costly management practice in peach and organic apple production. Mechanical devices designed to help with thinning have been developed, but none has proven highly effective and capable of completely replacing hand thinning. J.R. Schupp and a team of researchers from the Department of Horticulture at Pennsylvania
Business Profile: W.G. Dairy Supply
CRESTON, Ohio — With the mottos “We service what we sell” and “Working together,” you can bet you’ll get top-notch treatment from all of W.G. Dairy Supply’s 25 employees. The family business currently offers a full line of milking and barn equipment, including Bou-Matic milking systems; Dari-Kool bulk tanks and sanitation; Chemland cleaning chemicals; J-Star
America begs you, keep the change
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt recalls the “New Coke scare” and, with proof from a McDonald’s lawsuit, proves that America doesn’t like change.
