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PED virus changes some county fair tag-in routines
Stark County junior fair leaders are also considering changes, but the specifics haven’t been finalized.
Don’t let cold weather freeze sow performance
Sows may require 25 percent more nutrients in winter to accommodate for additional seasonal demands.
Even for cows, less can be more
With little research on how nutrition affects reproductive performance in dairy cows, it is generally believed that a cow needs a higher energy intake before calving. Research by University of Illinois scientists challenges this accepted wisdom.
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
Stables built in early 1900s for gentlemen’s pastime
(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a 2012 article by John A. Darnell Jr., and reprinted with permission from the Boardman News.) * * * For a brief period of time, from about 1911 to 1925, Boardman Township served as home to Southern Park, a harness racing track that attracted thousands of people
So, where’s my cow insurance?
It was evident from the hello that the South Dakota rancher had practiced his pitch before he dialed my office. “I’m (so and so),” he said in a clipped, clear voice, “an independent cow-calf producer west of the (Missouri) river with 500 cows. I’m calling with one question: Where do I go to sign up
Oh, the challenges of dairy farming in the winter (ever see manure boil?)
Dairy farming is never easy, but even the simple tasks get more complicated in the frigid weather of winter.
Hitting the wall
If more home renovation products were catered I think things would go much more smoothly. Why is it that in the pursuit of better living — or at least working plumbing — we first have to live in squalor? In the past week we have been tearing up our bathroom (and everything even remotely connected
Using photosynthesis to produce ethylene offers intriguing alternative
GOLDEN, Colo. — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have demonstrated a better way to use photosynthesis to produce ethylene, a breakthrough that could change the way materials, chemicals and transportation fuels are made, and help clean the air. NREL scientists introduced a gene into a cyanobacterium and demonstrated the
How did you learn the joy of accomplishment? Can you say ‘rock pickin’ party’?
The farm ‘chain gang’ toiled in the fields, in the hot sun. But we weren’t planting or weeding or even picking a crop. Unless you call rocks a crop.
