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Old friends are never forever gone
Yesterday an old friend from high school, back in touch via one of the many online “social networking sites” that allow you to log in and instantly reconnect with the boy who lobbed spit wads at you in second grade, or the gal who sat behind you in 10th grade science, sent me a one-line
Roller in the rye: Managing cover crops with rolling and crimping techniques
WASHINGTON — Farmers could soon be on a roll when it comes to preparing their fields for planting. That’s thanks to rolling machines — developed by Agricultural Research Service scientists in Auburn, Ala., — that can quickly flatten mature, high-biomass cover crops such as rye.
So lucky to be Caroline’s mom
“The best way to keep children at home is to make home a pleasant atmosphere — and to let the air out of the tires.” — Dorothy Parker Among some of my earliest Farm and Dairy columns was a piece in which I talked about my impatience while awaiting the birth of my second baby.
Give me ketchup or give me death
I often dreamed that once I packed my youngest child off to kindergarten, I would be free to indulge in some “me” time and become one of the much heralded “ladies who lunch.
Fiesty wren rules the Jenkins roost
To think I am being held hostage by a half-ounce bird! Outside the kitchen window, the wisteria vine is headed for the roof, hulls from oil sunflower seeds are piling up, venturing to the trash can elicits a loud scolding, and even filling the bird bath is a challenge.
March musings recall march of time
March is certainly being March, at least in my area, where there is great bluster with huffing and puffing and white-outs one minute, benign sunshine the next.
Dairy Channel: Ag 101: Do cartwheels through life
Dianne Shoemaker, northeast Ohio district dairy specialist with OSU Extension, writes about Greco-Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner, and how he grew up on a Wyoming dairy farm, and learned to do cartwheels through life.
PROGRESS: Study drives home benefits of GPS auto guidance for farmers
Corn Belt farmers who relinquish the wheel in their tractors can profit handsomely.
Illinois library working to preserve 125 years of agricultural history
Page by page, America’s rich agricultural history is being ravaged, not by boll weevils, not by locusts, not by critters of any kind, but by time.
Grazing is the key at Dry Creek Valley Farm
GRANVILLE, Ohio – A century farm has adapted to managed intensive grazing in order to prosper. Tom Maxwell is the owner/operator of Dry Creek Valley Farm near Granville, Ohio.
