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Review offers fully before signing up

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Some interesting offers may be showing up in your mailbox. Our “opt-out” period must have expired for receiving offers for credit cards, mortgages and other types of credit as more are showing up each day. Seed offers The ag community has certainly picked up the ball in this game as two recent mailings indicate: The

Having a beef with Ohio’s checkoff, where cattle will vote … sort of

Thursday, September 20, 2012

According to Chicago legend, a tombstone somewhere in the city reads: “John Smith, Born 1934, Died 1981, Voted 1984, 1988, 1992.” What makes the joke funny, of course, is its resemblance to the truth. Chicago’s well-deserved reputation for election shenanigans is just that — well deserved. Despite that legacy, cattle cannot vote in either Chicago

Can lesson can be learned from past?

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Have you noticed a trend in the American work force? It seems that everyone I talk to is either being worked to death with no time to enjoy life and family, or they have no work at all and have the constant worry of trying to hold it all together. Conversation I struck up an

Organic grain farmers to keynote Ohio Ecological Food and Farm conference

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

GRANVILLE, Ohio — Klaas and Mary-Howell Martens made the transition from conventional farming to being one of the leading experts in organic production. They will share their knowledge as keynote speakers at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s 32nd annual conference, Inspiring Farms, Sustaining Communities, Feb. 19-20 in Granville, Ohio. Farming organically since 1993,

Longtime WVU Extension specialist, faculty member honored for service

Monday, June 15, 2009

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A faculty member and Extension specialist whose work has improved the quality of life for thousands of West Virginians of all ages has been honored by West Virginia University for service to the community and state. Richard L. Fleisher Associate Professor Richard L. Fleisher is the recipient of this year’s Ethel and

How I spend my Wednesdays with Jack

Thursday, May 7, 2009

While the emotionally-charged book Tuesday with Morrie made it big for author Mitch Albom, I feel I have a masterpiece that could certainly share shelf space with that great book. Mine would be titled Wednesdays with Jack and the only tears you would be moved to shed would be those which fall from gales of

What I didn’t know about cows

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Never having lived with a cow, I know almost nothing about cows — and I truly believe that unless you actually live with an animal, even another person, you know next to nothing about them. It’s that day-to-day contact, not necessarily under the same roof, but better if that’s possible, which lets you “see” into

What I did NOT do on my summer vacation

Thursday, August 28, 2008

So I had a list. It was a very nice list. An impressive list even. On this list were all the amazing, enriching things I was going to do with the children on “our” summer vacation. Many of them were things we had done with much success and fanfare years before. So confident was I

Guebert to hog farms: I told you so

Thursday, October 4, 2007

(NOTE: Below is the second of a two columns on a now-collapsing, multimillion-dollar farmer-owned cooperative.

Time flies along with fly balls

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?
Since daylight-saving time began anew last weekend, I can’t say that I do.