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3 livestock protection animals for your farm
Dogs, donkeys and llamas make good livestock guardians. Read training and care tips, plus benefits, for these three livestock protection animals.
Real farm life is often not made-for-movies romantic
The cinema world has long romanticized many things, but none quite so over the top as Hollywood’s take on rugged ranching.
10 tips for allergy-free gardening
Microscopic pollen causes most allergies. Here are tips for gardening if you have allergies, plus suggested flowers, trees and shrubs to plant that produce little or no pollen.
Utica shale: Belmont Co. well shows promising results; more wells on the way
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources issued 23 new permits for Utica shale wells during November.
Demand more from your herd
The headline reads, “Beef prices skyrocket.” A little more information comes with, “Wholesale beef prices at record levels.” Another adds, “Beef exports up 7 percent in two months.” The articles that follow those zingers all explain different facets of the supply and demand equation. Beef prices are up because of a shrinking cowherd, accelerated by
A real worker finds something to do
The undercooked thought and overbaked talk that endlessly paralyzes Washington would not have gone far on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth before someone, boss or hired hand alike, would have condemned the yak and urged all to “get to work.”
Looking for the truth in food labeling
When the nearby link of a national grocery chain hosted a beef sale last summer, this carnivore grabbed his checkbook and motored to the store’s meatcase as fast as the Exploder’s worn wheel bearings allowed. They’re Angus At the store I was greeted with a ruby wave of shrink-wrapped beef loins sporting stickers that announced
1913 farmer’s advice still relevant
“In going over my farm records, I note a large increase in the cost of labor, fertilizers, crate material, horses, wagons and travel expense.” — Delbert Utter, 1912 Among the books in my small but growing library stands a tiny publication titled Making Special Crops Pay by Delbert Utter. Its publication date is 1913, and
Three barn fires in two weeks; wet hay believed to blame for two of them
Three barns across Ohio have burned in less than a week and a half.
Portraits in Progress: Equine industry making strides in Ohio
According to a 1997 study by the American Horse Council Foundation, Ohio ranked seventh in the nation for number of horses and economic benefits from the equine industry. In that year alone, the equine industry directly added $776 million to the state’s economy.
