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Vacation with us… Sproul
Dale and Mary Sproul of Uhrichsville, Ohio, never miss an issue of Farm and Dairy when traveling to Florida to visit Dale’s brother’s family during February and March. Their daughter, Mandy Frink, makes sure they get a copy of the paper each week by sending it down Thursdays.
Farm and Food File: Christmas joy in the gymnasium
A month ago I enjoyed a church dinner in the gymnasium of the grade school I attended 50 years ago. Back then, the gym sparkled with newness because, like the school itself, it was brand new, finished just weeks before I reported to the first grade as an equally new student.
Farming is greater than your farm
Combing through yellowed pages of Farm and Dairy from 1925 yields a unique look at history. As I look for items to include in the “80 years ago” portion of our weekly Read It Again feature, I’m struck by how different life was then, and yet, how little has changed.
True confessions of a First World girl
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. Recently, my electronic planner froze up, causing me lose track of every appointment, assignment, and crucial coffee date I may have scheduled for the next six weeks.
Propane shortage may be waning, but price concerns aren’t going away
U.S. propane inventories are nearly 44 percent lower than a year ago, and, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. price for propane hit a record two weeks ago, up $1.05 to $4.01 a gallon. The propane supply is rebounding, but it is going to cost consumers.
Talk is cheap and soon corn won’t be
Even before the ink had dried on last week’s column – a detailed report that, at least to me, made an ironclad case not to raid the Conservation Reserve Program to fuel the anticipated ethanol boom – members of the House Agriculture Committee were listening to testimony that urged a raid on the program to fuel the ethanol boom.
‘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.
Lyme disease: Learn this lesson from Janet (or me)
“I was a strong, hardworking woman raising a family, helping my husband with his business, mowing four acres of yard every week, gardening and holding a job. I felt like superwoman. But as time wore on, so did my health.”
— Janet DeCesare,
from Ticked Off
Sharks eating land birds in Gulf of Mexico
Reproduction and feather molt are two of the most energetically demanding aspects of birds’ lives. The breeding season can last five months or longer, and feather molt can take six to 10 weeks. Just finding enough food to stay alive during these stressful times can be a full time job.
Jefferson County Fair: Grand champion hog sets record; sales up $35,000
SMITHFIELD, Ohio – If Jefferson County 4-H and FFA members were stranded on an island last week, what are the two things they’d have been sure to bring with them?
Their livestock projects and plenty of buyers, which is exactly what the young people brought to Friendship Park bidders’ pavilion Aug.
