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Antiques and collectibles: Which are trash and which are treasures?
(Editor’s note: This week, we begin a bi-weekly column provided by Garth’s Auctions. It will cover a range of antiques and collectibles topics, starting with a series of articles on how you determine the value of an object.) The appraisers at Garth’s Auctions conduct more than 100 walk-in appraisal days throughout the year at museums
Research shows eggs from pastured chickens may be more nutritious
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A study conducted by researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has shown that eggs produced by chickens allowed to forage in pastures are higher in some beneficial nutrients.
Where is the predicted mild winter?
As Punxsutawney Phil, sensing that his winter’s snooze is about to be interrupted, begins to twitch in his cozy man-made burrow, I implore you to pay no attention whatsoever to his publicity stunt Feb. 2. He no more knows what he’s talking about than do any other of Mother Nature’s purported prognosticators, with only one
Back seat research drives the obvious conclusions
From time to time, Farm and Dairy’s esteemed editor — in what is probably a vain attempt to stave off yet another inevitable column about my bat problem — will send me what she calls “column fodder.” It’s generally some great little news clip about something worthy of discussion. I just love when this happens
Dairy farm discovery: ‘We caught the creature’
SALEM, Ohio — “It’s sort of like a pony, kinda like a deer, and has this goat thingy on its neck.” That’s how a surprised Paula Bardo describes the nilgai, the fugitive exotic animal caught on the family’s Columbiana County dairy farm last week. Did you see it? Residents of southwestern Mahoning County and northwestern
Numbers tell the story of agriculture
Farmers and ranchers live in an ocean of numbers. And like the tide, the numbers – pigs-per-litter, gain-per-pound, bushels-per-acre, dollars-per-bushel – can’t be held back; they keep coming and keep adding to our nation’s food story.
Have yourself a very merry something, something
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt finds herself singing along with Christmas carols instead of just humming the parts she doesn’t know. How about you?
Threshing Time and Winding up Summer
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb shares an article by reader Jean Fugman on old time threshing back in the 1940s.
Gloomy outlook for winter wheat
The smallest wheat harvest since 1974 could produce the year where tighter supplies don’t translate into higher prices.
Drought package funding stalled appropriations bill
U.S. farmers hit by weather-related disasters in 2001 or 2002 will get a little relief with the $3 billion farm disaster assistance package.
