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October brings bittersweet memories
“If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop your story.” — Orson Welles By JUDITH SUTHERLAND Farm and Dairy Columnist The steel gray skies of autumn have most definitely arrived with the turn of the October calendar. The once-green fields of endless soybeans of early September slowly turned golden, and now
Business profile: COBA/Select Sires
COLUMBUS — Making breeding decisions for your beef or dairy herd isn’t easy. And it’s a decision you’ll have to live with for a long time. But you don’t have to make the decision alone. COBA/Select Sires can help. The cooperative, headquartered at 1224 Alton Darby Creek Road, Columbus, serves more than 4,300 member-owners, providing
10 tips for higher corn yields, profits
COLUMBUS — With record corn yields in Ohio last year and some fields averaging upward of 240 bushels per acre, growers will be looking to squeeze every bushel out of their fields this growing season. “Growers have tasted the high-yield potential their fields are capable of,” said Peter Thomison, an Ohio State University Extension agronomist.
Let’s hope workshop on competition in agriculture produces results
Farm seed prices almost tripled in four years and, unlike other big input markets, now show no sign of backing — or even letting — up. Columnist Alan Guebert wades in to the ag competition fray.
And this little piggy squealed …
Roosters crow, cows moo and pigs squeal. To be more precise, proud roosters crow, contented cows moo and, contrary to popular folklore, scared pigs — not happy ones — squeal. In fact, the more scared the pig, the louder the squeal. This simple piece of farm knowledge was confirmed, again, in a squeal-packed, Jan. 5
At least agriculture pays dividends
Call it coincidence, serendipity, interstellar planetary alignment, whatever, but two events Oct. 13 proved again economics is the most refreshingly maddening subject (I cannot bring myself to say ‘science’) in the history of mankind. First, after watching every major market index from Hong Kong to New York crack like pigeon eggs the week before, the
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of June 26, 2008
BURTON, Ohio — The Breeders & Feeders met May 18 at the Patterson Center in Burton. The club started with a business meeting and went over new and old business. Ryan Ivans, the safety chairman, gave a presentation on bike safety. After the business meeting, members completed the quality assurance. Matt Peterson, the assistant adviser,
Spring could be a doozie in Midwest
Midwesterners have to be wondering: Will April be the cruelest month?
You are officially grown up
I understand now, with perfect clarity, why some 30-something women persist in sporting mini-skirts that are far too young for them (or their thighs) and men of the same age endlessly relive their teenage athletic exploits.
Background of Japanese ceramics
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about the Far East’s excellent pottery over the last 4,000 years.
