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Feeding corn to deer could be death sentence
Just days after 20 inches of snow blanketed the ridge, a second storm arrived. We could have another 8 inches by morning. Such conditions bring out the softie in many of us. We make sure the bird feeders are filled even before we shovel out the driveway. Feeding the deer? But what about feeding the
Is your child ready for farm chores?
While recently catching up on some reading, I saw an article that caught my interest. It was titled “Is your child ready for farm chores?” Since I work with dairy youth programs, this topic captured my curiosity. However, as a parent who had regularly enforced chores upon our sons, I had not posed such a
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.
Sleep over, perchance to dream (or cry)
It is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If this is so, then someone call the men in white coats because I am definitely insane. We have been on summer vacation for approximately a week now. Nine days, 13 hours and 31.6 minutes,
Trio of Tuscarawas County dairies
RAGERSVILLE, Ohio — A trio of Tuscarawas County milk producers joined the state’s elite production ranks this year. Burky Farm, Putt Dairy Farms and Bill Deetz each earned “elite” status with production averages in the top 5 percent of the state Dairy Herd Improvement Association herds on test. The milk producers and others were honored
Bye to Harvard’s only ag economist
The news of John Kenneth Galbraith’s April 29 passing brought but a moment’s sadness before it swept me back to the book-lined study of his home where, in mid-June 1986, he availed himself to a lengthy interview so I could prepare a profile of him for Farm Journal’s Top Producer magazine.
Hmm, how about a tasty catburger?
While the nation’s farmers leap into spring planting, this office is reluctantly digging through the winter drifts of stories gone undone.
D.C. sausage grinder running wild
In its rush to blow out of steamy Washington D.C. for a month of cooler temperatures and cooler tempers, Congress ran the legislative meat grinder hard in the final days of July to crank out enough fat-laden sausage to sate even the hungriest special interest.
Rabobank isn’t out for the count
Just as the noisy presidential campaign reached its October crescendo, the biggest, most bitter issue in farm country – Rabobank’s bid to buy Omaha’s Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA) – skidded to a quiet end.
Land of the free, and home of the brave takes on new meaning
Who’s brave enought to tough it out? Columnist Judither Sutherland shares a review of the book, Braving Home.
