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How to get the most out of the space in your garden
Learn how to make the most out of the garden space you have and use planting techniques to successfully grow more food in a smaller garden.
The sky isn’t falling: Good news on milk price horizon
With skyrocketing feed prices and negative margins to dairy producers, it may seem as if 2009 is repeating itself. But I don’t think that this is the case — there is some sunshine showing up in the currently cloudy dairy skies. The feed situation It was not that long ago the USDA and most experts
Only the land lasts forever
The final Saturday in October swept me three hours south for lunch with my parents and nearly-new grandniece and, later that Halloween afternoon, backwards about 40 years for visits with some ghosts on the farm of my youth. It began as an afternoon drive from my parents’ home in town to the Bottoms, that black
Program estimates break-even prices
COLUMBUS — With more livestock feedstuffs than corn and soybean grains available to Ohio dairy producers, finding the bargains while managing a balanced diet can be a challenge. As the industry faces a dire economic situation, an Ohio State University computer software program is available to help alleviate some unnecessary management costs. Price estimates SESAME,
Thanksgiving menu stuffed with healthy choices
From the main course to dessert, the traditional Thanksgiving meal is stuffed with healthy food choices, particularly those rich in disease-fighting antioxidants.
Practicing phenology: The art of gardening in rhythm with nature
Phenology is a field of science concerned with the timing of natural living processes with weather events over a period of years. Studies in phenology focus on when plants bud, flower and fruit; when insects emerge; when frogs get active in spring; when lakes freeze and thaw; and when birds migrate.
Goats thrive on ethanol byproduct
TEMPLE HILL, Ky. – More ethanol plants projected to come on line over the next several years could result in lower feed costs for livestock producers.
Farmers need to watch for drought-induced herbicide carryover
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — This summer’s lack of rain has translated into the potential for summer-applied herbicides to carry over into winter wheat or even spring-planted corn and soybean crops — something growers need to be monitoring, two Purdue Extension weed scientists say. Factors In a normal year, soil moisture helps dissipate herbicide soil concentrations,
Growers should expect budget squeeze in 2010
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind — Farmers should see some relief on input costs next year, but profit margins are still likely to be squeezed. Bruce Erickson, a Purdue University agricultural economist, said growers would likely see the most savings on fertilizer costs in the 2010 planting season. “Some farmers were spending as much as $200 per
Bush: ‘We must increase the supply of alternative fuels’
By Andrea Myers SALEM, Ohio – In his Jan. 23 State of the Union address, President George Bush called it ‘vital’ to diversify the U.
