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Student life during the Depression

Thursday, May 10, 2001

A new oral history project at the University of Illinois is helping to recover the routine and preserve the ordinary through the memories of Depression era undergraduates.

What’s left behind

Thursday, September 14, 2006

THE auctioneer’s racing voice quiets for the first time, and the crowd focuses on the woman in the red shirt. The one with her arms crossed, her eyes downcast, her lips pressed together.

JBS beef buy is bad for everyone

Thursday, July 10, 2008

If JBS Swift’s buyout of National Beef, Smithfield’s beef slaughter operations and Smithfield’s massive Five Rivers Cattle Feeding LLC, the nation’s largest cattle feedlot with one-time capacity of 811,000 head, the three remaining firms will have over 80 percent market share of U.S. steer/heifer slaughter.

Deer Run Farm: Three’s enough

Thursday, August 11, 2005

NORTON, Ohio – Three acres isn’t much to many farmers, but Mark Welton and his family have made the most it.

How to make pasture repairs after a muddy winter

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Learn how to formulate and implement a plan to repair pastures that were damaged by animals’ hooves during the winter.

How to build a solitary bee hotel

Friday, May 29, 2020

A bee hotel can encourage more solitary bees to nest in your yard or garden and can be simple to construct. Learn how to build a bee hotel.

Elections do matter to everyone

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Whoever said elections don’t matter was either a royalist or a royal idiot. Of course elections matter. For proof, ask Robin Hayes, Marilyn Musgrave, Randy Kuhl or Tim Walberg. All are Republican members of the House Ag Committee who, on Nov. 4, were fired by their constituents in, respectively, North Carolina, Colorado, New York and

Try these green activities at home

Thursday, April 16, 2020

While you’re stuck at home, try these environmentally friendly and perhaps “fun” projects or ideas for this spring.

Reducing tillage in organic vegetables

Monday, March 30, 2009

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — “Is there a way to try something different to move to less tillage?” That’s the question Anu Rangarajan, the director of Cornell’s Small Farm Program, asked an overflowing crowd at the latest Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) conference. Rangarajan urged the growers at this PASA annual Farming for the Future

Meats expert: ‘Pink slime’ may be unappetizing, but it’s safe, real beef

Monday, March 19, 2012

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Whether you call it “pink slime” or lean, finely textured beef, you can call it a much-maligned product at the heart of an emotional controversy fueled by misinformation, according to a meat expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.