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‘One extreme after another’: Climate change forces region’s ag sector to adjust practices
Climate change presents challenges for agriculture. Its effects can disrupt food access and increase food prices. And ag also contributes to climate change. As the effects of climate change continue to show in the Midwest and across the world, farmers are adjusting, and farmers’ groups are seeking policies that support them.
Skinned knees and taffeta
The phrase “7th-grade formal dance” makes about as much sense to me as saying “toddler driving lessons.” That aside, it seems to be the norm these days and who am I but a lemming like follower of the masses? I have no need to ostracize my daughter from her peers in such a basic way
Here’s the scoop on grilling safety
Whether you’re grilling steaks, burgers or pork chops, keep food safety in mind.
Judge overturns ODA ruling Howard Parrish is cleared
SALEM, Ohio – For nearly two years, Howard Parrish said he did not swap his granddaughter’s grand champion hog with another animal before it went to the slaughterhouse in September 2004.
The cost of heating water on a dairy farm
A dairy accounting firm reported for 2010 that energy expenses (utilities and fuel and oil combined) cost an average of $138 per cow per year. The category of energy expenses was reported as the eighth largest production cost on dairies and was one of the fastest increasing.
Have yourself a very merry something, something
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt finds herself singing along with Christmas carols instead of just humming the parts she doesn’t know. How about you?
Grain and oilseed prices continue to rise in June
Ohio’s June corn price of $6.67 per bushel is up $1.13 from May, and the state’s June soybean price of $13.90 per bushel is up $1.80 from May, and $6.18 above what was received at the same time last year.
Phipps Conservatory full of wonder and whimsy
Julie Geiss and her family recently traveled to Pittsburgh to visit Phipps Conservatory — a beautiful combination of Victorian charm and modern finesse.
Ask ‘big biz’ what stinks in rural America
Alan Guebert details a lesson for rural America, diving into the chemical and ethical cloud now shrouding AltEn, a 25 million-gallon per year ethanol plant.
Pork producers may post 2001 profits
Kansas State University James Mintert expects cash hog prices in the benchmark Iowa-southern Minnesota market this year to average in the low $40s per hundredweight.
