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Van Hams face controversy but plan expansion
Since settling in the area, the Van Ham family has encountered both resistance and welcoming arms from the community.
Market Monitor: Ugly transitional year defines market
For the last month traders, processors, and farmers have been frozen by our limbo market, wondering how low we can go. We have focused on the daily trading, watching prices slip lower most days, wondering when the slide would stop. Every once in a while we get a blip up that gives us hope. This
For farmers, gifting what they grow can provide charitable opportunity
Lorain County farmer among the first in his area to donate grain for charitable cause.
The company you keep says it all
In the long, expensive battle fought by U.S. farmers to make corn-based ethanol the premier alternative fuel in America, few Washington influence peddlers fought harder and spent more in opposition to it than the American Petroleum Institute. In fact, you name the biofuel issue and API and its fat checkbook made it into a bare-knuckle
Design a cozy roost site for your favorite birds
Whenever I get a series of letters asking the same question, it’s time to address that issue in a column. Over the last few weeks, a handful of readers have asked about winter roosting boxes, so here goes. Bluebirds, chickadees, titmice and nuthatches nest in cavities and readily use nest boxes, but did you know
Most of us are predictably irrational
People consistently behave in ways that defy economic theory, farmers and ranchers included.
Don’t count on robins to herald spring; they tend to winter by food sources
Darleen Flaherty of Taylor, Mich., writes, “Several Michigan friends and I spotted robins in various locations in the lower half of Michigan’s lower peninsula in February. “We saw them when the temperature was in the 40s, but then our weather turned colder and snow returned. How do robin’s survive winter conditions? I’ve never seen a
“A consistently dour columnist…”
Come on, you don’t want to end this year reading what an aging aggie like me thinks the “Best Stories of 2009” are. Easy as it might be — health care, global warming, cap-and-trade, Uncle Honey… What, I already wrote about all those things? OK, how about what you wrote on what I wrote to
Proposed changes to Pennsylvania’s vocational education cause concern
SALEM, Ohio – Ag educators in Pennsylvania are worried a new proposal could put the state’s vo-ag programs in danger.
New farmers struggle with land access
Land is central to the culture of U.S. farming. It’s also central to what keeps people out of farming. It’s expensive, scarce and completely inaccessible for some.
