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Jungle of food safety may consolidate
One hundred years ago this week, the nation’s first extensive food safety laws went into effect. Inspired by Upton Sinclair’s stomach-churning novel The Jungle, President Theodore Roosevelt bullied Congress into passing the Food and Drug Act.
Environment and economics: Making the case for farmland preservation
(Editor’s note: This week, we begin a four-part look at Ohio’s farmland preservation efforts.) Each year in the United States, more than 1 million acres of land are converted from agriculture to other uses – never to be reclaimed.
Forty-seven Ohio counties declared disaster areas due to weather onslaught
COLUMBUS – Ohio’s State Farm Service Agency Executive Director Larry Adams said that the U.S. Department of Agriculture designated 47 counties in Ohio as primary disaster areas due to damage and losses caused by various disasters that occurred this year.
Detroit: Stove capital of the world
Advertising pamphlets in the culinary collection at the University of Michigan’s William L. Clements Library document the products of the no fewer than five major companies that made stoves in Detroit at the turn of the century, and give a picture of the home kitchen a hundred years ago.
Tractors are a peek at the past
SALEM, Ohio – Sometimes, you just know when to hang on, even if you don’t know exactly why. John Cluxton, an Adams County farmer, has been hanging on for 50 years and this summer, he found out why.
Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board extends over-order premium to June
The Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board extended the $1 per hundredweight premium for six months starting Jan. 1, saying it needed more time to consider a change to the over-order premium system.
Fall is the time for a home energy makeover
Renovations that take inventory of energy use and strive toward efficiency have grown increasingly popular over the years.
Homeowners fed up with high utility bills want to conserve costs, and there are a number of ways to revamp a home to be more energy efficient.
Fertilizer prices are going up, so how can farmers keep costs down?
Prices will be rising for various crop nutrients in the coming year, partly from higher production costs, partly from supply shortages and partly because of greater global demand due to more crops being produced in the wake of higher commodity prices.
Merry economy and happy free market
Despite overt hints to Santa’s elves that I own enough dress shirts and too many ties for someone who works at home, chances are nearly 100 percent that a swell new shirt and a very understated tie are in my immediate future.
The man behind the roar of engines and crowds
JAMESTOWN, Pa. – In 1987, high school teacher Richard “Rick” Feicht decided that after six years of announcing tractor pulls for the Pennsylvania Tractor Pullers Association, he would strike out on his own and create an independent pulling company.
