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Biological spring is just around the corner
The vernal equinox arrived last week; however, biological spring is still several weeks away. Learn what signs truly signal its arrival.
Updated economic forecast shows prices depend on recession ending
Economist cautions mixed future with increasing agricultural products prices and higher oil costs.
Study says bats are mosquito devourers
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests that bats may indeed be effective exterminators of the aggravating warm-weather pests known as mosquitoes.
Conflicting news, volatile market
Market observers and U.S. Department of Agriculture specialists continue to have different ideas about the size of this year’s corn and soybean crops. USDA came out with its grain stocks report last week, which included current estimates of the crop.
Beyond slapping: Mosquito strategies
While it’s hard to completely avoid being pestered by mosquitos, there are some things you can do to slap them down.
How to keep eastern carpenter bees from damaging your home
Damage to manmade structures can be prevented without harming eastern carpenter bees when their behavior and their lifecycle are taken into account.
Just how good are you at dairying?
The prolonged depressed milk prices in the dairy industry are creating critical cash-flow and long-term survivability issues on Ohio’s 3,328 dairy farms. Cost-cutting decisions must be made with full awareness of both short- and long-term production and economic consequences. Many farms are analyzing every aspect of their business to see where money can be saved.
Pork producers could see modest profits in 2016
Smaller hog breeding herds and lower production costs could lead to modest profits for pork producers in 2016, Purdue University agricultural economist Chris Hurt says.
Three books to fill last days of summer reading
If you’ve read your fill of thrillers and mysteries this summer, here are a few nonfiction titles to get you into fall. Two years ago, I wrote about an ecological disaster unfolding on Rat Island in the Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska. Rats descended from those shipwrecked hundreds of years earlier had decimated the
Early mourning dove nest in central Pennsylvania
While perusing the notes on the PaBirds listserv last week, a subject line from Feb. 17 caught my eye. It was posted by a friend of more than 20 years, and it read, “My annual dove!” Kermit Henning of Mechanicsburg, a town located just west of Harrisburg, reported that for the fourth consecutive year he
