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Committed to committees: How to run government without trying
If you’ve ever sat on a committee, or ever worked with one, or even tried to talk to one, you’ll know exactly what columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt is talking about in this week’s column.
Raise awareness for invasive species Feb. 21-27
Invasive species affect native species, natural resources and agriculture. National Invasive Species Awareness Week is used to recognize the many groups that work to manage, control and prevent invasive species across the country.
China sees woe, US ag sees red
Three weeks into calendar year 2016, however, key elements in China’s economy — its wildly speculative stock markets, less-than-transparent currency, sagging heavy industries — have gone boom.
What we’re reading: 8/19
This week we’re reading about McDonald’s (getting the boot); the L.A. Kitchen (more than training chefs); and Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Lattes (now made with real pumpkin, thank you very much!).
World Dairy Expo hosts six successful breed sales
MADISON, Wis. — Throughout the week of the World Dairy Expo, five breed sales were held. The sales kicked off with the Top of the World Jersey sale, which sold 30 lots and averaged $3,315.
Ohio Fruit Growers Summer tour targets just one farm
The Patterson Fruit Farm at Chesterland, Ohio, is a sixth generation fruit farm growing 45 acres of apples and strawberries, with a farm market, bakery, and gift room, and a seven-week Family Fun Fest in the fall.
Tractor roll-over demonstrations show severity, reality of accident
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. – Parents pushed toddlers in strollers closer to the barrier fence and pointed to their older children to watch as a New Holland tractor rolled over a hillside at Ag Progress Days last week.
Harvest is here, prices are not
I am having trouble coming to terms with the idea that we are still not to the last week of September and we are well into harvest, even here in the frozen north (Ashtabula County, Ohio, if you are not a regular reader).
Don’t just sit around this winter
When I opened the computer file that holds the farm calendar of events we print each week, I glanced at the little numbers that tell me how long the file is in column-inch terms.
Fifty reasons to celebrate
HARRISBURG, Pa. – George Hunter of Stoneboro, Pa., celebrated a golden anniversary last week. No, it wasn’t his wedding anniversary – which, incidentally, he and his wife Evelyn surpassed 13 years ago.
