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Composting tour set for Aug. 5 in Columbus
COLUMBUS — During the program Composting in Ohio 2010: A Tour of the Industry in and around Columbus attendees will learn about: a central Ohio composting facility that takes in 150,000 cubic yards of yard trimmings and food waste every year, equal to the loads of nearly 40,000 pickup trucks, and makes sellable mulches and
Ohio on track to break wheat record
WOOSTER, Ohio — Ohio could be looking at record wheat yields this year, driven mainly by near-perfect growing conditions and negligent disease development. Pierce Paul, an Ohio State University Extension plant pathologist and wheat specialist with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, said preliminary reports indicate growers are harvesting 80-and 90-bushel per acre wheat,
Squaring Away the Holiday
A summer buffet would not be considered a true hoedown without dancing. Just what is a “hoedown”? Webster dictionary says, “hoedown (ho’doun’) noun 1. a lively, rollicking dance, often a square dance 2. music for this 3. a party at which hoedowns are danced Etymology: prob. of black orig.” * I don’t suppose there will
Miner’s Tractor Sales: We can help
ROOTSTOWN, Ohio — Because equipment and farm needs change, the two locations of Miner’s Tractor Sales Inc. have witnessed makeovers since they were purchased to change right along with their customers. Steve Miner, purchased the Edinburg store — formerly Bishop Tractor Sales — in 2004 and added the Canfield location in 2007. Miner’s Tractor offers
Increased cost of starter fertilizer has farmers seeking alternatives
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — With the phosphorus-containing starter fertilizer 10-34-0 averaging nearly $1,000 per ton, many farmers are asking, “Do I really need to include phosphorus in my starter fertilizer?” A Purdue University specialist said it depends on soil temperature and tillage, soil phosphorous level, irrigation and yield potential. Know the formula The starter fertilizer
White-nose Syndrome is killing bats in West Virginia
MADISON, Wis. — The U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Laboratory in Madison, Wis., has confirmed that bats from two Pendleton County caves submitted for testing by Division of Natural Resources wildlife biologists have the condition known as White-nose Syndrome (WNS). Killed thousands This condition has killed thousands of cave bats in the Northeast, and
Hazard A Guess: Week of Nov. 27, 2008
Hello from Hazard! OK this is a really short deadline week for Hazard because of the Thanksgiving holiday. We are writing this on Thursday afternoon — at the same time most of you were probably reading last week’s paper. What that means, of course, is that no one can respond to a new item and
Consumers’ top three worries
INDIANAPOLIS — When consumers shop for groceries these days, they usually ask themselves, “How did the bill get so high?” New research shows the rising cost of food is among the three greatest consumer concerns in the U.S. today. The Center for Food Integrity surveyed more than 2,000 consumers and asked them to rate their
FFA youth finish ‘Operation Payback’
RIPLEY, Ohio — The Midwestern United States flooding of 1993 returned in 2008 and many agricultural communities are experiencing the challenges of cleaning up after another episode of inclement weather. Images of homes inundated with flood waters filled local and national television newscasts during June. Helping each other. In 1997, when southern Ohio experienced flooding
HSUS captures livestock auction abuse on film
SALEM, Ohio — The Humane Society of the United States released a video June 25 that showed cattle being repeatedly shocked with electric prods and dragged by chains while alive. The video, taped in May at the Portales Livestock Auction in Portales, N.M., was shot by an HSUS undercover employee working on behalf of the
