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Smartphone app helps control invasive species
Ohio State University Extension has released a new app for spotting and tracking invasive species — non-native organisms such as Asian carps, purple loosestrife and Asian longhorned beetle — to try to keep them from setting up beachheads and hurting the economy and environment.
GOD’S COMFORT
As a retired minister I have officiated at many funeral services and tried my very best to bring comfort to those who mourn. During the death of my sister, I was reminded, as I have reminded others, of the great comfort of God to each of us.
Notes from a Label Baby Mom
I enjoy keeping an eye on fashion. Not that I dress so well, but I’ve always been fascinated by handbags and, impervious to my husband’s dismay at my overflowing boxes of footwear, I feel there’s definitely a certain shoe that completes the look of every outfit.
Mixing it up
WAYNESBURG, Ohio – Mike Roberts says he has the Heinz 57 of farms. There’s a little of everything on his 180 acres in Carroll County – meat chickens, egg-laying chickens, turkeys, beef cattle, dairy cattle, garden produce, homemade biodiesel.
Local food movement is helping this local farmer make a living
Miller Livestock Co. is a family operation raising grass fed meat and eggs for families, restaurants.
5 stories farmers read this week: March 19, 2016
This week’s most popular web stories include the Columbiana County Fair’s new grandstand donor, tips for writing a farm business plan, a look into miscanthus’ potential and two farm family features: one for beef cattle and another for maple sugar production.
Ohio farmers, itching to plant, watch markets continue lower
Except for four days of respite, grain markets have been lower almost every day since the March 31 USDA Planting Intentions Report. Ohio farmers, itching to get in wet/cold fields, can only watch prices fall.
Comfy cows could produce more milk, have fewer health maladies
LEXINGTON, Ky. — At the University of Kentucky Dairy Farm, milk cows are singing anything but the blues. The staff, students and faculty there have been putting a lot of effort into making them more comfortable with bigger stalls, rotating grooming brushes and, yes, even waterbeds.
Not always easy, but always worth it
KINGSVILLE, Ohio – When Loren and Nancy Ring set a goal, they stick to it. It’s been nearly 50 years since they opened the doors of Ringbyre Jerseys in Ashtabula County and their intent hasn’t changed since the first milk truck pulled up to the barn.
5 stories farmers read this week: Dec. 26
This week’s top stories include the 1952 Ford 8N tractor that broke a land speed record, instructions for building a bee box, how farmers will benefit from a recent tax deal and more.
