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Mourning doves are truly renewable
Out with the old: By the time young mourning doves have left the nest, the parents have already begun another family. Females often lay eggs in a new nest before the previous brood has left its nest tree.
Yes, Virginia, farming is hard work (but it is so worth it!)
Editor Susan Crowell is excited for all that lies ahead in agriculture. “I want to do it all over again.”
How to manage a profitable market garden
There isn’t a formula for market garden profitability, but attention to what is most profitable, least labor intensive and most cost effective to produce will help you determine what to grow.
Coal-filled stockings just got cheaper thanks to lower prices
Coal prices have risen slightly in the past year, but the increase has been so minimal — at 2 percent, or $5-7 per ton — that consumers will not feel the impact.
That ol’ ‘I know what I know’ logic
Little wonder why Congress got the Farm Bill math wrong: it knows what it knows and everyone else can just shut up.
Ag Progress Days unveils new ‘resource centers’
Pennsylvania’s Ag Progress Days concludes this afternoon. But research and development on the topics will continue.
OSU weed specialist: Do legwork to stop spread of herbicide-resistant weeds
COLUMBUS — Ohio growers, agribusinesses and Ohio State University weed scientists will need to work over the next decade to prevent a weed known to many cotton and soybean farmers in the south as “pigweed on steroids” from further expansion in Ohio, an Ohio State University Extension expert says. Ohio Palmer amaranth, which is a
FFA taught Brock Goodman ‘the stuff you use every day’
Ag education lessons have paid off for Morrow County young farmer and entrepreneur.
Maintaining employees can be the backbone, or downfall, of farms
Hello, dairy farmers! What a difference a year has made. Last year, we were in the middle of one of the wettest spring planting seasons on record. Now, this year’s spring is making a run for the record books as one of our all-time best! Most producers have finished corn and soybean planting and a
Farm and Food File: Again with the crop insurance?
Suggestions on how to change the 2012 farm bill are popping up faster than jack-o’-lanterns. Like this gap-toothed hallmark of Halloween, however, most are hollow, scary and shed little light.
