Check Out My Check Boxes

I meant to grab a refill for my checkbook and was sorry to find an empty check box. I don’t remember taking out the last set of checks and don’t remember any order form that should have been sent in.

New curator at Pasto Ag Museum

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – A new volunteer curator has been named for Penn State’s Pasto Agricultural Museum Daryl Heasley of State College, retired professor emeritus of rural sociology, will take the reins of the museum at year’s end.

Cow power: Guts can make electricity

COLUMBUS – Cows could one day help to meet the rise in demand for alternative energy sources, say Ohio State University researchers that used microbe-rich fluid from a cow to generate electricity in a small fuel cell.

Berkshire schools educator named conservation teacher of year

BURTON, Ohio — The Geauga Soil and Water Conservation District has announced Cheri Goggin, environmental science teacher for Berkshire Junior/Senior High School, has been named the 2011 Ohio Conservation Teacher of the Year in the secondary category.

Uganda: Building a foundation

SALEM, Ohio — After the rebels killed her husband, Santa didn’t know what to do. Her country had been ripped apart by a civil war, resources were scarce and she was suddenly all alone with five children.

The high cost of political help

July has been a tough month for farmers and ranchers in The Washington Post. On July 2 and again July 18, The Post published lengthy investigative pieces on the enormous cost, wanton waste, and built-in silliness of today’s federal farm programs.

Unique Dutch Village Inn now open in Columbiana

Some of Ohio’s finest craftsmen have been involved in producing furniture, moldings, railings and fireplaces for the Inn.

Each of the six wings of The Dutch Village Inn has its own theme: Shaker, primitive, colonial, mission, cottage or Victorian.

ODA eases import curbs on bovine TB

The Ohio Department of Agriculture rule has been amended to allow herds that have tested negative for tuberculosis within 12 months to enter the state. The original rule required herds to be free of the disease within six months prior to entry.

Ohio Farm Bureau award winners illustrate breadth of agriculture

“Agriculture has been my focus my entire life.”

Atty. Paul Wright’s comment while accepting his Distinguished Service Award from the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Dec. 1 could’ve been repeated by any of the other four Ohio agriculture leaders honored. In addition to Wright, Distinguished Service Awards were presented to longtime Nationwide agent Fred Pursley and community leader Howard Skiles. Judy Roush received the Agriculture Cooperative Educator Award, and Lindsay Hill was posthumously honored with the Agricultural Communicator Award.