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OSU President E. Gordon Gee to retire
OSU president to step down at end of June
Rural food deserts?
WOOSTER, Ohio — “Food deserts” are normally thought of as low-income, blighted urban neighborhoods with little access to fresh, reasonably priced fruits and vegetables. But rural areas, despite their wide-open spaces and fertile farmland, can be food deserts, too. An Ohio State University Extension community development specialist worked with two student interns to examine this
Vilsack’s buzzword at Farm Science Review: Innovation, innovation, innovation
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: Ag innovation gave us food security.
Children: They grow in the blink of an eye
By JUDITH SUTHERLAND Farm and Dairy columnist There is just nothing like the blessing of a newborn baby. Arriving a full month early, our family’s most recent arrival is tiny but mighty. Oliver granted me a little time to hold his peanut-sized baby brother, who, as it turns out, was not named White Tractor after
Choppers show Farm Science Review visitors sometimes it’s about ‘new chrome’
There were three machines at this year’s Farm Science Review that definitely had people talking — and you can’t use them in the field: custom-built ‘American choppers.’
He’s hooked! Duane Keener receives Pro Pullers 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award
By JOYCE L. RITCHIE Contributing Writer ASHLAND, Ohio — The Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League honored longtime Ohio tractor puller Duane Keener with its 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was presented in Indianapolis Oct. 23. Known for driving the super stock tractor “Bambi,” Keener, of Orange Township in Ashland County, was surprised when Mike
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of June 10, 2010
ROGERS, Ohio — The Country Friends 4-H group will be holding a car wash to raise funds for their group. The event is set for 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. June 12 at the New Waterford Fire Hall. Donations will be accepted. * * * GEAUGA, Ohio — The Geauga Beef and Swine 4-H club met
Spring brings bluebirds … and flies
Now the foaming white froth of the perfumed locust blossoms has been spent and honeysuckle has taken over the scent waves. The erratic spring weather with abundant rain — understatement! — has some of us feeling as though we are living in a tropical rain forest. In my pasture, buttercups and grasses are not quite
Storms claim lives, cause severe damage to homes, farms
Farmers and neighbors work to rescue animals, secure buildings.
Confirmation Sunday: Starting down the path to heaven in front of a forsythia bush
We may have thought Confirmation Sunday as parole day from catechism purgatory but (as our gray-haired elders predicted back then) it would become the first step on a journey of deeper understanding and deeper commitment.
