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Select seeds for performance, grow your best garden
If you want to grow your best garden ever, select seeds for performance traits. Start by looking for varieties well-suited to your region.
How to choose heirloom seeds: 5 tips
According to University of Kentucky Extension, heirloom seeds are varieties that have been passed down from generation to generation and are usually between 50 and 100 years old or even older.
No Black Friday for dairy farmers
Dairymen can’t make a profitable year based on one-day’s sales, like Black Friday retailers. Being profitable requires you to be in the top 20 percent of dairy farms. Being “average” is accepting lower profitability or even sometimes at being unprofitable.
Stories shed light on simpler life
My paternal grandfather and his brother Sam told some great stories about the ‘kid wagon’ that came through the old country neighborhood to carry the children to the one-room schoolhouse.
(I hope) there’s an ag activist in all of us
The creation of an Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board will mean the implementation of standards governing livestock and poultry production. But I would rather have those standards created by a body that understands production livestock agriculture than an entity that would like to abolish animal agriculture.
OARDC, OBIC win $3 million grant to develop rubber from dandelion
WOOSTER, Ohio — Ohio State University’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center, along with other university and industry partners, have been awarded a $3 million Third Frontier Wright Projects Program grant to develop a renewable, domestic source of natural rubber that is expected to create new industries and jobs
Will luck of Irish be with farm bill?
What’s up with the farm bill? Why is it taking so long to finalize? Why is the president threatening to veto it?
Retail grocery prices drop in last quarter
The latest informal survey shows an 18-cent decrease on the average total cost of 16 basic grocery items from this year’s third quarter.
Ohio’s wet wheat is struggling
Northwest Ohio wheat stands have been hit the hardest by this fall’s warm, wet weather.
Estimates show higher milk prices next year
WASHINGTON – Current USDA estimates place 2006 milk production at 181.9 billion pounds, a 2.8 percent increase above 2005.
