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What does ‘quality of life’ really mean on your dairy farm?
The events of the past two years have given us cause to stop and ponder the quality of our life. Along the way, it would be good if we could take time to recognize some life-altering moments that provide the secure notion that dairy farming is indeed sustainable AND that we can feel satisfied with the quality of life that a dairy farm offers.
It may not be Paris, but it comes close
Journalism and jets have carried me to some of the world’s great capitals. Most of those cities, like New Delhi, Paris, London, Prague, Mexico City, Rome, Brussels and Berlin, were in full flower hundreds, even thousands of years before the very idea for our nation — let alone its capital — was planted. And yet,
The father of the Green Revolution
If pushed to guess, I suspect that few of the lengthy, laudatory obituaries published the week after his Sept. 12 death would have pleased Norman E. Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy turned hunger fighter. Borlaug, after all, wasn’t into flowers or flowery words. He was a plain-spoken, dirt-on-the-shoes plant breeder whose semi-dwarf and rust-resistant wheat
At least agriculture pays dividends
Call it coincidence, serendipity, interstellar planetary alignment, whatever, but two events Oct. 13 proved again economics is the most refreshingly maddening subject (I cannot bring myself to say ‘science’) in the history of mankind. First, after watching every major market index from Hong Kong to New York crack like pigeon eggs the week before, the
This world just lost one of the good guys
There are people who walk the path of life so graciously, so quietly, that we sometimes don’t stop to celebrate the enormity of their presence.
Learn to grow your own geraniums
When starting plants from seed this winter, don’t forget geraniums. While most gardeners purchase their geraniums from garden centers in the spring, growing them from seed is easy and fun.
Do you know how Item No. 1278 was used?
Item No. 1278 brings to question use more than simply identifying a tool. Why does this corn planter have a spool of wire hanging from the back?
Roundup of 4-H news for March 30, 2023
Catch up on local 4-H news from Saddle-Lites 4-H Club and Pennsylvania 4-H State Council.
Stark Parks welcomes spring with variety of activities
Stark Parks has a variety of upcoming spring programs and activities set to take place in April.
Roundup of gardening news for Sept. 23, 2021
The seventh annual Ohio School Garden Conference 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 22. at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center.
