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The New Year
If and when things get a little too tough to stand in the coming year, I plan to kneel.
Courtship is in the air for many birds
Turkeys aren’t the only birds with courtship on their minds. With long days and warmer temperatures, song bird nesting season is also underway.
A roundup of FFA news for the week of April 16, 2015:
BERLIN, Ohio — The Hiland FFA chapter spent the week of March 23 showing the student body and staff what FFA means. Each day of the week was assigned a theme and animal for the chapter’s petting zoo during lunch. Monday was animal print day. Natalie Lovell brought her horse, Yoda. Shear Equipment
Odd trading week may hurt rallies
Short week, but lots of activity still happening in the markets.
Research suggests antimicrobial edible films inhibit pathogens in meat
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Antimicrobial agents incorporated into edible films that are applied to foods to seal in flavor, freshness and color can improve the microbiological safety of meats, according to researchers in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State. Using films made of pullulan — an edible, mostly tasteless, transparent polymer produced by
Precautionary principle: By removing a risk, are we limiting finding solutions to the problem?
Editor Susan Crowell on the precautionary principle: Public perception of risk can certainly be different than a scientific assessment of risk, but I’m not sure my perhaps-ignorant perception should hamper scientific inquiry.
Making the best of a rough decision
(Part Four)As members of what was known as the Eckley community in the 1920s, the energetic couple farming the old Schuck farm was known to everyone as Charlie and Mrs. Myers. I find this description very telling, as Charlie was a jovial friend to all, and by every description I have ever heard, his wife
Mid-States Wool Growers Association aims for highest wool prices possible
Rich in tradition, the Mid-States Wool Growers Association works to provide sheep producers with the highest price for fleece.
Checkoff oversight virtually nil
More and more, the federally-mandated, non-refundable commodity checkoffs resemble something out of a Charles Dickens novel. Most feature huge casts, complicated plots and, to read their press releases, are completely responsible for the best of times enjoyed by their farm- and ranch-payers. Truth But when federal auditors examine almost any aspect of the 18 checkoffs
Farm and Food File: Christmas joy in the gymnasium
A month ago I enjoyed a church dinner in the gymnasium of the grade school I attended 50 years ago. Back then, the gym sparkled with newness because, like the school itself, it was brand new, finished just weeks before I reported to the first grade as an equally new student.
