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Meeting paves the way for paying farmers to capture greenhouse gases
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Supported by science and spurred by emerging markets, more than 80 participants in an international workshop on carbon sequestration called on world policymakers to focus research and create fair-priced carbon offset markets that would pay farmers to adopt conservation agriculture practices that will capture carbon in the soil.
Didn’t summer just get started?
These poignant lyrics to a sweet melody — “Believe me if all those endearing young charms were to fade by tomorrow and melt in my arms …” — are from a long ago love song Thomas Moore wrote in 1801. Why does the sentimental ballad play in my mind this bright August morning? Because I
Of cabbage and children
Dear Bonnie Plant Company: I blame you for this. You sent my third-grader home with an innocuous little plant. Like kittens, puppies and fluffy white clouds that morph into not-so-cute funnel clouds, your little cabbage was downright darling at first glance. Who knew the panic it would later entail? Tiny My daughter ferried it home
The scents of summer hold memories
“The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay. I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what
Pitt agricultural entrepreneurship program: Linking farmers and resources for success
SALEM, Ohio — More than 10 years ago, on the way home from his county’s first-ever farmland preservation meeting, Pennsylvania farmer Craig Sweger had an epiphany. “We can buy the development rights to every single acre of every farm in Washington County, but there will still be no farms unless we preserve the farmer.” That
Stupidity leads to quick burn
There is a certain comfort to be taken in the knowledge that some things are probably never going to change.
Colonists’ Sunday church rituals
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes of early settlers’ first meeting houses and the traditions of those structures.
Dairy vets provide biosecurity advice to prepare farmers
Veterinarian Eric Gordon visits Jerrod Henry at Henry Farms regularly to provide biosecurity advice on his herd of cows in an effort to prevent disease.
Where are the lightning bugs? Soon friends!
Yes, we will see lightning bugs this year. Find out how their emergence is being impacted by the weather and when you can expect to see them.
Clean water is so important
why should we care so much about clean water, sanitation and hygiene? And what can we do to help?
