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Ohio, Pa. farms and businesses get USDA grants to install solar
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development is giving nearly $300,000 in grants to farm and businesses in Ohio and Pennsylvania to install solar, conduct energy assessments or make other energy efficiency upgrades.
Meat done the old-fashioned way
Bob Boliantz, owner of E.R. Boliantz Packing Co. in Ashland, Ohio, spent the last 40 years building relationships with local farmers and helping them develop a high quality product.
5 stories farmers read this week: Jan. 2, 2016
This week’s top stories include Middlefield, Ohio’s Santa Claus, managing forage waste, the transfer of Ohio’s soil and water program, tips for keeping farm resolutions for the new year and more.
Crafty crows are smarter than we think
Several times each year I’m pleasantly surprised when I get a letter or email from a reader asking how to attract more crows. Such letters make me smile.
Should you reduce fertilizer rates in response to lower prices?
Changes in crop prices often generate questions about the economics of fertilization. Prices for many crops, particularly corn, have recently fallen considerably from the highs of the past few years.
Health concerns related to fracking may be stress-related
Perceptions of health may be affected by fracking regardless of whether it’s due to direct exposure to chemical and physical agents resulting from drilling or to the psychosocial stressors of living near drilling activity.
Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: ‘It’s just a mile or so. You can just tow me.’
Over the years, I’ve read many sad tales in the tractor magazines of towing adventures going comically wrong (often with a real potential for disaster), and I’ve a few such stories of my own.
Diagnosing rattle fatigue on the farm
Do you know what rattle fatigue is? There are no Census Bureau statistics available regarding this, but I’d be willing to bet that nearly 90 percent of all farmers have experienced it at one time.
Meat that actually looks like meat
During a pork roast dinner with my parents on the farm 15 or so years ago, my father issued one of only two edicts I recall him ever uttering.
Dairy self-help program self-delusional
Three years ago come July 1, 70 percent or so of American dairy farmers began taxing themselves to fund a program the industry dubbed Cooperatives Working Together, or CWT.
