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Ruby-throated hummingbirds will soon be back
Their tiny size, acrobatic flying ability, and eagerness to use nectar feeders make hummingbirds one of America’s favorite backyard birds. This fascination always triggers a flurry of mail, so let me anticipate the most common hummer questions I will get over the next month. Q: How many species of hummingbirds live in the east? A:
Timely rains yield exceptional crops in Eastern Corn Belt
Dryness in the Midwest has plagued most of the growing season. However, crops are expected to be exceptional in the Eastern Corn Belt due to timely rains.
Market takes breather after move up
The rainy weather that has plagued farmers since the middle of May took a breather the last few days. Three or four days of sunshine and warm — but not hot — weather has perked up some corn and soybean fields.
Bears might have the right idea to survive the winter
Black bears have developed an admirable strategy: They gorge themselves in the fall, sleep through winter’s worst and give birth to cubs before emerging in the spring.
Market Monitor: Lack of insight, but not opinion
I was reminded this morning that when it comes to really knowing what is going on in the grain markets, I am as useless as certain vestigial mammary organs on a male swine. Maybe you have to think about that for a moment. I cleaned it up a little for the “General” audience. In fact,
Reporter moves to different ‘beat’
Hemingway went to Paris to discover, he once explained, if “I could write two good sentences.”
While there, however, Papa wrote two good books, The Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms.
Crop prices treading water
URBANA – Following wide swings in September and early October, the prices of corn, soybeans and wheat have traded in relatively narrow ranges in the last half of October.
USDA tracking, slaughtering cows
USDA euthanized entire bull calf herd from Sunnyside, Wash., that included the bull calf born to the cow infected with mad cow disease.
Cruising to New Zealand with the Johnsons
Wayne and Marilyn Johnson, Bristolville, Ohio, enjoyed the Farm and Dairy newspaper on the deck of the Star Princess cruise ship on a two-week cruise in March around New Zealand. They visited several sheep operations. At the Agradome in Rototure, they saw 21 breeds of sheep. After watching a sheep being sheared, the wool ball
Vacation with us … Houk and Moore
Annie Houk and Jim Moore, along with Jim’s two sons John and James, enjoy the slopes with Farm and Dairy at Peek N Peak Resort in Clymer, N.Y. Hey, finally a vacation photo that seems to have more snow what we see back in Ohio. The family hails just several miles northeast of Farm and
