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Every pencil should have an eraser
Plugging along in this ultra-technologically advanced world of ours sometimes just makes a fellow long for a newly-sharpened yellow pencil with a fresh eraser. The very first pencil I ever called my own was a big, green fat one, standard issue to all first graders. I have no idea why I remember it so well,
Dairy Channel: Time to change way you utilize manure
Ernie Oelker, agricultural extension agent in Columbiana County, compares economic value of nitrogen fertilizers with using livestock manure as nutrient.
Managed grazing the only way to go
If you have not yet adopted management intensive grazing, you should now. At the end of 2007, I figured I would be spending my winter talking about how to evaluate and renovate pastures after the drought. Boy, was I wrong.
Do more of what makes you happy
Kymberly Foster Seabolt swears it takes a strict diet and a team of medical and fitness professionals to keep her feeling half as good as she did at 20.
Report sightings of turkey and grouse broods this summer
Help report wild turkeys and ruffed grouse for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife’s annual brood survey.
Dairy prices rise as industry begins to recover losses
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The dairy industry is slowly recovering from low prices and record losses encountered in 2009 and early 2010, a Purdue University agricultural economist said. “It will take higher prices over an extended period of time for dairy producers to begin to replace equity that was lost in 2009 and early 2010,”
Growth in biomass could put U.S. on road to energy independence
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Relief from soaring prices at the gas pump could come in the form of corncobs, cornstalks, switchgrass and other types of biomass, according to a joint feasibility study for the departments of agriculture and energy.
Restoring old tractors is rewarding, but costly
I don’t claim to be “restoring” a tractor, as to me that means making it exactly as it was when new, an almost impossible undertaking unless one has unlimited funds.
In with the new, out with the old
I don’t generally pen “how to” columns. “How to be a dork like me” is not a life lesson that is much in demand, generally speaking. Then one day I realized I was living a lie. I maintain a fresh and clean home and pose as if I am a very tidy person. Actually, we
June hogs and pigs report shows slight expansion, low prices
Swine numbers show modest increases, but profits are still falling.
