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Job seekers have five minutes to impress
A new survey from CareerBuilder finds that nearly half (49 percent) of employers know within the first five minutes of an interview whether a candidate is a good or bad fit for the position, and 87 percent know within the first 15 minutes.
SURE helps farmers who’ve suffered crop losses
As the year winds down I would like to remind you that the Farm Service Agency offices have a The Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program yields and rates for 2010 crops. SURE is available for crop losses due to natural disasters.
Spouses don’t always get along so swimmingly
I have long enjoyed reading the anniversary notices in the county paper. It is these little nuggets of society news that tell us that Lula and Orville have enjoyed 75 years of wedded bliss (having wed, apparently, at or around age nine).
Doing time in tiny chairs
Few things strike greater fear in the parental heart than these: parent-teacher conferences. Highly educated adults, captains of industry, even veterans of foreign wars can be reduced to puddles of insecurity at the very prospect of conferring with their child’s teacher.
Spring Dairy Expo crowns winners
A 5-year-old Holstein cow and Holstein yearling heifer were named supreme champions from the 560 head of dairy cattle that paraded through the tanbark ring for the 2001 Spring Dairy Expo March 29-31 in Columbus.
‘Long walk home’ looks at Navajo’s 1863 march
Step back in time to 1863, when the U.S. Army forced more than 9,000 Navajos to make a grueling 380-mile march across New Mexico to a new reservation. A Nov. 1 program near Cleveland shares the story.
Frogs bring community together in Valley City
Valley City is the official frog jump capital of Ohio, a title earned by hosting the festival every year since 1962. On July 21, thousands of people gathered in the small rural community to witness over 700 frogs jump.
Food prices, ag economy tied to proper labor reform
An approach to agricultural labor reform that focuses solely on immigration enforcement would raise food prices over five years by an additional 5 to 6 percent and would cut the nation’s food and fiber production by as much as $60 billion.
OSU researchers working to increase blackberry and raspberry production
Researchers with Ohio State University Extension are in the midst of a multi-year project studying alternative planting methods to help Ohio growers increase the production of two small, increasingly popular fruits that many health experts hail as “superfoods.”
A moving experience
BUTLER, Ohio – When Dennis Miller decided to move a 24-by-50-foot storage building to a new location on his farm near Butler, Ohio, he decided to keep it simple and move it himself with the help of a few neighbors.
