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English for the English speaker
As a trained professional in most things English (the language, not the nation), and with the Labor Day kick-off to the election season just around the corner, permit me a three-minute tutorial on “English for the English Speaker.” We’ll begin by acknowledging the obvious: English, like Yorkshire pudding, isn’t always what it appears. More importantly,
Animal cruelty is the cause du jour
There is concern, and rightfully so, among many on today’s farms as outside influences converge to voice opinions on everything from long-standing ag business practices to animal treatment.
The land blesses us, so we give back
Part II Though my father never knew his great-grandfather Samuel Young, he was fortunate to spend a great deal of time with his own grandfather, Samuel’s son.
Technology wave started years ago
About the time I broke the cotton shackles of my mother’s apron strings for the glorious freedom of my father’s farm fields, a technology wave hit the southern Illinois farm of my youth.
Farm bill is a wobbly effort at best
When longtime Texas congressman “Cotton” Charlie Stenholm got bushwhacked for re-election by colleague Tom DeLay’s infamous Texas redistricting plan in 2004, most ag policy hands lamented that much of the House Agriculture Committee’s farm bill experience went down with him.
Eminent domain decision: no shock, and qualified, if you follow history
To hear the major newspapers and farm groups tell it, the world of private property rights collapsed June 23.
Moving from to-do to ta-done!
Score! I just crossed something off my to-do list. I can put a black line straight through “consume entire package of M&M’s before breakfast.
Farmer learns to live by the weather
Columnist Judith Sutherland concludes a series on Charles Smart, who learned in the 1930s that farmers live by the weather.
Noble County Fair livestock sale tops $250,000 mark
CALDWELL, Ohio – Nearly 500 lots crossed the auction block in the Noble County Fair market livestock sale Sept.
DEP completes report on effects of underground mining in Western Pennsylvania
The report supplements the 1999 report and confirms reports of damage to 173 more properties. The percentage of undermined properties with damage has decreased.
