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Always start with what you know
Alan Guebert predicts 2019’s challenges were just a warm-up act for what appears to be an even more challenging 2020.
Read it Again: Week of Feb. 28, 2002
Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Offering the best food for the wild birds
The colder months are here, it’s time review the best foods to offer backyard birds.
Lessons learned from the 2012 drought
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Eastern Corn Belt livestock producers heading into breeding, calving and grazing seasons have much to learn and apply from last year’s drought, two Purdue Extension specialists say. While climatologists don’t expect a repeat of last summer’s extreme conditions, parts of the region are known for variable weather and milder late-season drought
Pa. fire department rescues life of Erie County farmer trapped in bin
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The proper response to farm emergencies is often a bit different than that to other crises, and Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences offers a special training course to prepare likely responders. Recent training That ag-rescue training recently was credited with saving another life — the fifth in recent years —
The silly season is upon us
In NASCAR the so-called “silly season” is that period at the end of the year when teams are realigning. Drivers are going to other teams, teams are changing leadership or swapping drivers. People are hired, fired. Everyone knows this next year is the year. Just ask the Cubs or, for that matter, the Indians. Silly
Farm boys made the days more fun
The days of summer on our dairy and grain farm were anything but lazy days.
What seems to stand out most of all in my memory of summertime is the small army of young men who pitched in to help.
Jimita Holsteins: Family, teamwork make dairy farm run
STRASBURG, Ohio — In the summer of 1995, Karen Rowe packed work clothes and a new pair of boots and left her classmates in the Ohio State ATI dairy science program for a 10-week stint on a Wisconsin dairy farm. Until then, she’d never worked on any dairy except the one owned by her parents,
Ethanol plant in Greenville now running
According to The Andersons, Inc. and Marathon Oil Corporation, ethanol production has begun at their 110-million-gallon ethanol plant located in Greenville, Ohio.
Farming: Take the good with the bad
Has farming ever been more exciting and more nerve-wracking at the same time? I had the opportunity to talk with a life-long farmer who I respect greatly one morning last week, and we discussed the ups and downs of this incredible agricultural scene. He was debating how much of his corn crop to contract, saying,
