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Northeast Ohio dairy conference challenges producers to increase milk quality
Annual conference offers advice on improving cow health, reducing somatic cell count.
Neighbor girl brightened my days
The sun was low in the sky, evening coming on, when the buggy arrived. I stepped outside to see who was coming to visit, and it was a happy moment when I realized it was Anna, coming to say hello. As her father visited with my husband, I was so happy to get to talk
Slug love is fascinating sight
Look at those nasty things was my first reaction.’ But, then like staring at a train wreck, I found myself in awe of these slimy creatures. As my curiosity for the natural world has always been leading me forward to see new things, slugs, although not as striking as other species that inhabit this planet,
Only three channels, but it was the whole world in television
(Part three) In the early 1960s, a 23-inch black and white television set cost $219, with a 26-inch color TV going for $379. If a family owned a black and white set that was still working just fine, not very many were in a huge hurry to shell out nearly $400 for a newfangled item
Research shows subsurface drainage improves corn, soybean yields
COLUMBUS — For every $1 spent on drainage technology, producers get $3 to $4 back in corn and soybean profits, according to long-term Ohio State University research. Twenty-five years of field studies (from 1984 to 2009) at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center Northwest Agricultural Research Station in Hoyvtille showed that subsurface drainage significantly
Ramps – the king of stink can be a tastebud treat
As I worked my way down the steepest portion of the valley, I could see patches of green in the distance. Some were stands of Virginia bluebells just unfurling their leaves, but most were carpets of ramps. Experience Experience has taught me that mid-April is ramp season. When the redbuds and dogwoods bloom and the
The company you keep says it all
In the long, expensive battle fought by U.S. farmers to make corn-based ethanol the premier alternative fuel in America, few Washington influence peddlers fought harder and spent more in opposition to it than the American Petroleum Institute. In fact, you name the biofuel issue and API and its fat checkbook made it into a bare-knuckle
September will pack several punches
In the summer’s waning warmth after Labor Day, my mother would order her child army into the big garden of my youth to gather the year’s final flush of vegetables.
Older generations cooked up own fun
When columnist Judie Sutherland looks back on seasons past, she remembers how much fun the kids of “her” generation could cook up, none of it costing a dime.
Death of small-town America is greatly exaggerated
When people care, the community persists in the face of social, demographic and economic changes.
