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Priorities are set in feet — and yards
It has come to my attention that when I shared a photo of our head dog, Ace, with my blog readers recently, I may have unwittingly become the subject of some good-natured ribbing (and abject horror) over the state of our less than stellar lawn. Mainly because a fair amount of weeds and bare spots
Dogs, logs and crackers
My daughter is standing before me, crying. She is also limping and dragging her foot in a way that implies she might, in fact, be crippled for life. I leap to attention: “What’s the matter, babe?” “I stubbed … (hiccup, sob) … my toe, (sniffle, sob, gasp) on … ACE’S LOG!” Of course she did.
Talking market strategy in Ashtabula County
Nothing in the commodity market has been any less predictable than grain prices over the last three years, according to Tim Gildersleeve, who grows about 1,200 acres of grain and forage on his Austinburg farm.
Oil prices, weak dollar driving up food and commodity prices
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Commodity prices — and resulting food prices — are rising sharply, driven by a combination of factors that include high oil prices spurring biofuels growth, a weak dollar and world production and consumption trends, according to an analysis by Purdue University agricultural economists.
Ready to ride
There are few moments in life that compare to the feeling of sitting atop a bucking, spinning, kicking bull. There are even fewer moments that compare to the feeling of hearing that eight-second buzzer and knowing you finished the ride.
A weekly roundup of FFA news for the week of May 15, 2008
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Eighteen members of the Zane Trace FFA chapter recently attended the 80th Ohio FFA Convention May 1-3 held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus. Their trip began with a tour of Brownie Points Bakery in Gahanna. From there, the students continued their study of food production by touring the North Market
If you want to get something done, be somebody
“Politics should not be merely a spectator sport.” — Lyndon Johnson I did not set out to become an activist. It just sort of happened. I was shy as a child, or so they tell me. I know my poor mother just walks around in a perpetual state of head-shaking wonder that the child she
The go-to guy and gal
I have often said that the reason I enjoy being a “columnist,” rather than a “journalist” is that the former can use random numbers like a “jzillion dollars” without remorse, while the latter has to report with accuracy on dull-as-dishwater things like the Gross National Product and how much it costs to fill the pothole in front of your house. (Curiously, about a “jzillion dollars.”)
Dairy farm discovery: ‘We caught the creature’
SALEM, Ohio — “It’s sort of like a pony, kinda like a deer, and has this goat thingy on its neck.” That’s how a surprised Paula Bardo describes the nilgai, the fugitive exotic animal caught on the family’s Columbiana County dairy farm last week. Did you see it? Residents of southwestern Mahoning County and northwestern
Made in America? Yeah, right
After a sip of (Brazilian) orange juice and a nibble of bacon (from a market hog farrowed in Canada), U.
