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Early wheat harvest could mean more opportunity for double-cropping
Farmers are harvesting wheat two-three weeks ahead of usual. But the ground is so dry that double-crop efforts could still be delayed.
Move over, Kardashians! Farm Kings are the new reality TV stars
MERCER, Pa. — Grab a bowl of popcorn and turn on the television. There is a new reality series in the making, but it’s not your typical love story kind or survival of the fittest. No, it’s about a different type of love affair. It’s about the love of the soil, wondering what the weather
Johns Hopkins researchers use Twitter to track health trends
By sorting these health-related tweets into electronic “piles,” Mark Dredze and Michael J. Paul uncovered intriguing patterns about allergies, flu cases, insomnia, cancer, obesity, depression, pain and other ailments.
Hard work, fiscal sense the formula for Horn beef farm
Sons, mother keep farm going after death of proprietor.
Drought threatens Pa. well water levels
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — After months of very little rainfall — and with long-term weather forecasts predicting little improvement through fall and early winter — well owners across the state have begun to grow uneasy, according to a groundwater expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. All of Pennsylvania is under a drought watch,
Ohio dairy farmers tell senator they need transparency, predictability
WOOSTER, Ohio — Dairy farmers from some of the top dairy producing counties in Ohio had a chance to air concerns with one of the state’s highest elected officials on Sept. 1. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) heard from dairymen in Wayne, Holmes and Geauga counties at a roundtable conference held at the Shisler Center
A conversation with ornithologist and author
I met Bridget Stutchbury in the early 1980s at the University of Oklahoma Biological Station. I was teaching ornithology, and she was a visiting graduate student from Yale looking for a place to study the social behavior of purple martins. We had dozens of pairs of martins in six apartment houses right on campus, so
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of Nov. 26, 2009
ORWELL, Ohio — The Mustang Wranglers 4-H horse club held its regular monthly meeting Nov. 14 at Saddles Etc. & Gift Shop. Club members elected the following officers: Stephanie Mason, president; Carolyn Morrow, vice-president; Jackie Warren, secretary; Katrina Kingdom, treasurer; Hannah Propst, reporter and Helena Zaller, librarian. The club voted on fundraising and community service
Keep your eyes open for several fall visitors
A day after the first hard frost of the season, a flock of nomadic cedar waxwings appeared in the backyard. I counted 42, but probably missed a few. They were filling their bellies with fruits from a bittersweet thicket. More handsome than beautiful, waxwings always seem immaculately groomed. Only the distinctive crest disrupts the body’s
Columbiana County farm celebrates 200 years of hard work and dedication
The Hahn family may have changed over the past 200 years, but its farming legacy lives on.
