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Drive change before it drives you
Change is what farmers and ranchers do. We also know that it’s better to drive change before change drives us, according to Alan Guebert.
Parenting by the book
Kymberly Foster Seabolt reflects on parenting lessons she learned from children’s books over the years.
A roundup of FFA news for the week of May 7, 2015:
NEW WASHINGTON, Ohio — Sam Robertson, a 2014 graduate of Buckeye Central High School, received the Ohio Star State FFA Degree at the Ohio FFA Convention April 30, in Columbus. Robertson also was awarded the 2015 Star in Agriculture Placement for his accomplishments in FFA activities, contest success, and in his supervised agricultural experience.
Deer have more than gun hunters to fear
Many predators seek deer — not just humans.
‘Find joy in learning new things, always’
“It’s ironic that we forget so often how wonderful life really is. Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.” — Anna Quindlen This past week I had the good fortune of visiting with one of my very favorite people, a 90-plus-year-old woman named Susan,
Marcellus and Utica shale update: Carroll County continues to lead in Utica shale drilling in Ohio
Carroll County continues to be the drilling hub in the Utica shale in Ohio. During April, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources issued 24 permits for wells in Carroll County. All of the permits issued were to Chesapeake Exploration.
Getting an education in the calf pens
The year that I turned 6 was a big year. I started first grade. I started piano lessons — against my will. And I started helping with the daily chores of feeding calves. School was kind of nothing new. I had spent hours playing school at a real student desk with three big sisters telling
Will we listen to Clint Eastwood’s halftime speech?
Chrysler’s Super Bowl ad narrated by Clint Eastwood reminds us that we — Americans — are gritty and resilient. We’re the wet-behind-the-ears upstarts still writing our young country’s first chapters. It also reminds us of what’s so great about this country: the freedom to fail and the freedom to reinvent and the freedom to change.
Looking for summer reading; look no further
A good book can make or break a summer vacation. Whether under a beach umbrella or in a comfortable easy chair, any curious naturalist will enjoy these recent titles. Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World’s Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler (2011, William Morrow, $25.99) is the latest book by Jessica Speart. For more than decade,
Small farm, big impact: Contest winner hopes video educates
By ANDY ANDREWS Special correspondent HERSHEY, Pa. — She has only three head of cows, a very small herd of Icelandic sheep, beef cattle, egg layers and an abiding love of farming. But this Crawford County farmer set out to teach the public the realities of modern agriculture. And she did so in five minutes.
