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What’s in a name? Creative crime and the ‘Junior’ league
Recently, I have begun to branch out in my daily newspaper reading. Now that I have discovered the birth announcements, I am no longer confined to the police blotter to keep up with the myriad ways humans can commit crimes against the innocent.
Some tax laws change for 2002
Lower personal income tax rates are the cheeriest news, along with
higher contribution limits on retirement plans and more breaks for
those educating their children.
Penn State working on wild horse contraception
Penn State researchers working on a contraceptive device to be used with wild horses in the western United States say their work looks promising.
Millers: Don’t send us GM wheat
Millers feel biotechnology has a future in agriculture, but aren’t willing to risk markets on genetically modified wheat now.
High tunnel help: Grow, sell your crops year-round
WOOSTER, Ohio – High tunnels – unheated, plastic-covered, relatively inexpensive structures – can grow lots of food on little land, can do it nearly 12 months out of the year even in the upper Midwest, and need fewer inputs than larger-scale, open-field farming methods.
Under water: Late season floods damage crops; livestock drowned
SALEM, Ohio – Scioto County’s Jim Rapp calls himself a true river rat farmer.
But in his 59 years, he’d never seen pooled water on the home farm in September.
Migrant farm help is critical
SALEM, Ohio – When harvest season rolls around at K.W. Zellers and Sons, it’s a race against time to get the vegetables out of the field before they go bad.
The economics of animal welfare regulations proposed for Ohio
By LUTHER TWEETEN (Editor’s note: The following is reprinted from the June 2009 issue of the Ohio Ag Manager newsletter published by Ohio State University Extension.) The Humane Society of the United States seeks to phase out battery cages for Ohio’s laying hens, gestation crates for its pregnant pigs and crates for veal calves in
Consider bioswales for stormwater management
Bioswales are landscape features that manage stormwater and add beauty and diversity to your property with native plants.
If you use a cell phone, thank Jessee Russell
Even though I don’t like all the things cell phones have brought us, I do understand that they have become an important tool on today’s family farm.
