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Pennsylvania legislation guarantees minimum royalty rights amid controversy
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed legislation that guarantees minimum royalties to mineral owners, but some question other aspects.
How do birds survive cold winter nights?
My bird feeders have been busy this week, and as I watch the nonstop feeding frenzy, I marvel at how birds as tiny as goldfinches and chickadees can survive winter weather. The long, cold nights that lay ahead make day to day survival a challenge for all wild birds. Smaller birds face the greatest problem
Experts say prostate cancer screening should vary with patients’ history
Men have a 16 percent lifetime risk of developing prostate cancer, but most of these cancers do not become evident. In fact, autopsy studies show that prostate cancer is present in two-thirds of men over 80 and in one-third of younger men.
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
USDA’s unused case to push own rule
In a striking, two-and-a-half page analysis that ran counter to department leanings, the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture strongly objected to the department’s use of two outside studies that justified the massive retooling — essentially gutting — of the 2010 update of Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rules to ensure
Dairy Excel: Everyone brings different skills to the farm, the challenge is matching to task
Farming has seen many changes and advancements in technology that has allowed and even encouraged more daughters to think about returning to a business that was once thought of as a ‘man’s business.’
Dairy Excel: Take these things into consideration when developing a farm partnership
Forming a partnership between two or more people to enter into a farming arrangement has a number of potential benefits in addition to a number of potential pitfalls.
Special behaviors make bird cohabitation work
Over the next eight weeks, Neotropical migratory birds will return. Some will move on; others will stay and nest locally. On a good morning, birders can count 30 or more species feeding in the tree tops. But seeing many species together, often in feeding flocks in the same trees, raises an interesting ecological question: How
The 2009 Great Backyard Bird Count is a success
The highlights of this year’s Great Backyard Bird Count Feb. 13-16 are likely to include reports of northern species moving south in huge numbers. White-winged crossbills, pine siskins, common redpolls, and snow buntings only occasionally visit our latitude, but 2009 has seen an impressive southbound invasion by these species. The Great Backyard Bird Count is
It’s a relief hard-fought election is over
For those who are relieved this presidential election is over, I write this column. President-elect Barack Obama was born the year John F. Kennedy gave his inaugural address. In Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope —Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, he quotes from Kennedy’s inaugural address: “To those peoples in the huts and villages
