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The dance of daddies and young daughter’s dating

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Mr. Wonderful refers to most teenage boys with designs on his daughter (aka all of them) as “the one with the hands.” He further categorizes them as “the other one with the hands.”

Discovery! Oldest European fort in the inland U.S. found in Appalachians

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Move over The Lost Colony and Jamestown, a new fort has the distinction of being the oldest European fort in the inland United States.

It’s good to be king, or is it?

Thursday, August 1, 2013

So you want to be King? It helps immeasurably to be born into the Royal Family so you can mark that off your “to do” list Royal Baby. Well done! Fame. Now, you probably don’t realize it yet because you’re an infant and, as such, permitted to sleep on the job, but most people aren’t

USDA reports help rally grain markets

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Regardless of USDA reports last Friday, we are trading this grain market as a short-crop year.

Bearing up to the call of the wild

Thursday, June 28, 2012

It’s long been a dream of mine to not be eaten by a bear. This hasn’t been a difficult dream to fulfill since I have always resided, quite smugly, in a state that claimed to have no bears beyond the zoo and an occasional misplaced Chicago football fan. This is why people live in the

Technology has dramatically changed the planting season for farmers

Thursday, May 24, 2012

According to the last Farm and Dairy, 79 percent of Ohio’s corn is planted, way ahead of last year (Marlin Clark said that last year only 2 percent of corn was in the ground). Earlier planting When I was a kid, I don’t think we even began planting until near the end of May. Of

Ohio conservation tillage conference: No-till was ‘a revolution on the land’

Thursday, March 8, 2012

The annual Conservation Tillage & Tech. Conference included a session on the 50-years of no-till farming.

Let the teen years roll along

Thursday, March 1, 2012

The comment that my children are “amazingly well behaved” accompanied an email forward of a video-gone-viral that has blanketed the media. The video features a father so fed up with his snotty teenage daughter that he read her the riot act before videotaping himself shooting her laptop in retaliation. Some called it child abuse. Me,

Efforts to control the Mississippi result in flooded farmland, extensive damage

Friday, February 24, 2012

URBANA, Ill. — When the water in the Mississippi River rose to 58 feet with a forecast of 60 feet or higher in May 2011, the emergency plan to naturally or intentionally breach the levees, established over 80 years prior, was put in motion. The flood of 1937 did top the frontline levee and water

Seismologist says little doubt that injection well caused earthquakes

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

YOUNGSTOWN — Just to be clear, it’s probably not the fracking that is causing earthquakes in the Mahoning Valley, it’s the brine byproduct being pumped into a separate well, according to a seismologist studying the situation. Injection well Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer ordered a halt to operations Dec. 30 at a