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Remarkably, electric clocks predated home wiring
If you told most Americans living today that at one time people had to actually wind their clocks and watches by hand, they’d probably raise an eyebrow in disbelief. Electric clocks and battery powered quartz watches are just about all that can be found today, as has been the case for decades. The comforting tick-tock
Biometric ID cards could help resolve migrant worker issues
By ANDY ANDREWS Contributing Writer LANCASTER, Pa. – More than 60 percent of the milk sold in this country is processed using migrant labor. In fact, most of the food we eat is handled in some way by migrant workers. With the passage of Arizona’s new immigration law, SB1070, Congress is well on the way
Organic food co-op raid sparks court case against health department, ODA
SALEM, Ohio — Legal action has been taken on behalf of a Lorain County farm family that says a raid on their property earlier this month violated their constitutional rights. The Buckeye Institute‘s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit Dec. 17 in Lorain County Common Pleas Court
How not to talk to strangers
Farm and Dairy Editor Rachel Wagoner loves talking to strangers and hates talking about politics. How does she reconcile these two things?
Saving limbs, to saving life: Chain saw safety is more than a buzzword
Reporter Chris Kick recently attended a chain saw safety workshop with the Ohio Forestry Association. This is his account of the experience.
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of July 3, 2008
BARNESVILLE, Ohio — The Barnesville Progressive Home Helpers 4-H club held its regular meeting June 14 at the Main Street United Methodist Church in Barnesville. Kortney Temple gave the Treasurer’s report and Mary Moore gave the News Reporter’s reports. Belmont County Teen Camp will be Aug. 2-3. The club discussed progress on its project work.
By hook or by crook, the wheat harvest was accomplished with intensive labor
Paul Locher details how 1800s pioneers in Ohio Country would have accomplished the wheat harvest and describes the tools they would have used to do it.
Ohio farmers talk management and marketing at beef cattle field day
Farmers, processors and industry experts discussed beef cattle marketing and management at Michel Livestock, Hatfield Farms and Shirer Bros. Meats for the Ohio Beef Field Day, in Muskingum County, July 16.
Group works to save historic Hudson Farm
When Donald Barlow ceased dairy operations in 1995, he and his wife, Helen, donated the roughly 65 acres that remained of the Case Barlow farm to the First Congregational Church of Hudson. When the church announced plans to sell the property for development a group of Hudson citizens and business owners, as well as city officials, stepped forward to save the property.
Ohio firm gets USDA biomass grant
WASHINGTON — Marginal or abandoned crop ground in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania may find new life in a new crop.
