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Birder or not, ‘The Big Year’ is worth seeing
About a year ago, when I heard Hollywood was making a movie of Mark Obmascik s 2004 book, The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, I worried. I feared it would make a joke of birders and birding. Remember Jane Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies? When I heard the three stars
Unfortunately, I’m not a carpenter
Some serious outdoor carpentry this fall quickly proved, again, the enormous amount of woodworking skills I did not acquire on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth. It’s easy to peg the origins of this deficiency: Working with wood on our farm usually meant picking up the remains of a gate or fence that
Kasich order revamps wild animal inspections
Executive order calls for humane societies, state and local entities to crack down on exotic animal housing and care.
Stone Laboratory adds history, science to Put-in-Bay vacation
Families will have many opportunities to learn about Lake Erie research, environmental issues that affect the lake, and the history of Put-in-Bay throughout the summer, thanks to several tours and programs hosted by Ohio State University’s Stone Laboratory.
A roundup of FFA news for the week of April 28, 2011:
WEST SALEM, Ohio — The Northwestern-Wayne FFA chapter raffled off a model John Deere 730 tractor at this year’s chapter banquet. Only 1500 of these tractors were produced. Brian Bowers was the recipient of the tractor. On the entry form participants were required to write their favorite FFA memory. Bowers said, “My favorite memory of
Ohio small farmers learn big-farm marketing success
Small farmer conference offers useful insight for landowners of smaller acreages.
Thrown by the ‘urban cowboy’ grain market
We in the grain business are hanging on with both hands to the mechanical bull market. It goes up, it goes down, and it eventually throws you off on your face.
Dairy price stabilization introduced to Congress
WOOSTER, Ohio — A bill designed to stabilize dairy prices and control the growth of dairy farms that want to expand has officially been introduced to Congress. Known as the Dairy Price Stabilization Act — the legislation is a hybridization of plans by Holstein Association USA, Milk Producers Council of California, and many others concerned
Fast planting weather, slow grain market
A month ago, the market was talking about wet weather that would potentially slow the start of planting. Traders built a little delayed-planting premium into prices. Then, the weather changed dramatically, and so did the markets.
Farm still holds power to those who visit
“As the light faded from the sky, we would build an immense bonfire and settle down to eat steak and roast corn, drink boiled coffee, sing songs and tell stories as the fire roared upward and sent its sparks toward the star-lit hood of the sky. Then the cattle would gather all around us in
