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On the wheat crew: Ohioan shares experiences from Great Plains

Friday, July 15, 2011

Ohio teen Austen Shoemaker heads west to join a combine crew for this harvest season, and shares his journey with Farm and Dairy.

Spring blooms overnight in Ohio

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Was it magic? Was it time-lapse photography? Was it a mirage? How is it that the thicket — my jungle to the west — was dark and bleak one day and by morning was swathed in a green veil? What spread the lawn with a duvet of purple violets and pushed smiling dandelions through sodden

A roundup of FFA news for the week of April 7, 2011:

Thursday, April 7, 2011

ASHLAND, Ohio — Mapleton FFA Chapter held its annual FFA versus teachers’ basketball game March 25. Admission to this annual community service event is $1 and one canned food item. The money collected went to the American Red Cross for the Japanese Relief fund and the canned food went to the Ashland County Food Bank.

Preparing meals back in the old days

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Once upon a time — all children’s stories began this way, in our childhood times my sister always labeled “in older days” — there were no McDonald’s, no Wendy’s, no Taco Bells or Burger Kings or even pizzas. Hard to believe, isn’t it, in these times of some kind of restaurant on every corner and

Green Haven Farm: Deep roots

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Rusty and Lisa Grubbs pride themselves on continuing the family farm.

Ohio Gov. Strickland names appointments to Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

COLUMBUS — Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland signed the legislation making the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board a reality March 31, and on April 6 he announced his 10 appointments to the board. The governor’s appointments include: Tony Forshey, Leon Weaver, Jeff Wuebker, Bobby Moser, Jeffrey LeJeune, Harold Dates, Jerry Lahmers, Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, Robert Cole, and

Wind turbine powers the way for Ohio produce grower

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

REEDSBURG, Ohio — It may take a few years to pay for itself, but produce grower Monica Bongue has her sight set on wind and what it can do for her small farm in Ohio’s Wayne County. In early December, Bongue worked with Wind Turbines of Ohio to install a turbine on her farm, which

Annual Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference set for Feb. 5-7

Friday, November 21, 2008

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Dairy producers are facing the same challenges that other industries are in today’s troubled economy — they’re seeking more economical and efficient ways to do their jobs and figuring out how to do more with less. Conference The seventh annual Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference, Feb. 5-7 at the Crowne Plaza

Gripe, then adjust grazing tactics

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Everyone seems to like to talk about the weather and farmers probably lead the pack in a lot of those discussions. It is either too dry like last summer, or too wet like this winter, or too cold to get the plants growing, or too hot to have the livestock out in the fields. In

Digging deep to find motivation

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Baseball hall of famer Ryne Sandberg said his dad always told him, “Keep your nose clean, your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open because you might learn something.