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What no one wants to talk about
Spring is a good time to tap the season’s new energy and fresh hope to honestly discuss some of farming and food’s most pressing issues.
Nutrient center to explore solutions for pollution
A multi-pronged, systems approach to solving water pollution caused by nutrients in the environment is the focus of a new center housed in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
Farming technology takes to the air
Back when I was just a little feller, my dad would take some of us up to the brand new Noble County Airport for a “fly-in” that was sponsored each year by the Noble Soil and Water District. Our county was one of the beneficiaries of former Gov. Rhodes’ effort to build an air strip
‘What’s a fair price to pay to rent farmland in eastern Ohio?’ Well, it depends…
Just because one farmer offers to pay more per acre doesn’t necessarily mean they will care for the land like someone who offers less per acre.
Social scientists look at reasons for global ‘feeding frenzy’ for land
ITHACA, N.Y. — Victims of the U.S. real estate slump may not feel it, but there’s a worldwide rush to buy land going on. Nations from China to Saudi Arabia, as well as corporations and private investors, are buying up enormous tracts of land around the world at a rate 20 times faster than in
Farmers on hold while waiting for N.Y. farmland protection funds
By DARRIN YOUKER Contributing writer When Michael McMahon was accepted into New York’s farmland protection program, state and local dignitaries came to the farm and held a press conference. That was three years ago. But McMahon is no closer to seeing his farm protected forever from development. McMahon, a Cortland County dairy farmer, is one
Drought threatens Pa. well water levels
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — After months of very little rainfall — and with long-term weather forecasts predicting little improvement through fall and early winter — well owners across the state have begun to grow uneasy, according to a groundwater expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. All of Pennsylvania is under a drought watch,
Kocab volunteers time, passion to preserve farmland
Ashland County volunteer makes her county a leader in farm protection programs
Sleep over, perchance to dream (or cry)
It is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If this is so, then someone call the men in white coats because I am definitely insane. We have been on summer vacation for approximately a week now. Nine days, 13 hours and 31.6 minutes,
Really, you can’t make this stuff up
As fast as time usually passes, it seems to pick up even greater speed in the fall. Corn and soybeans, like maples’ leaves, appear to turn golden one day, brown the next and, at least so to me, are gone the next.
